creator Frieder, Ophir creator Yee, Wai Gen A peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing system is provided with an enhanced search method for a client computer therein. The method includes masking at least one term in a multi-term query entered into a client computer of the P2P system to obtain a masked query and routing the masked query to a plurality of server computers. The masked query is compared to a file descriptor of server files in each of the plurality of server computers to identify a plurality of matching server files. The server computers return to the client computer as search results the file descriptor and a mathematical identifier for each of the plurality of matching server files. The server computer may return to the client computer only a subset of the plurality of the matching server files. Enhanced P2P file searching accuracy is provided. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-22T16:39:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7860876.pdf: 94698 bytes, checksum: 1c0384c364e1f17f6e197502d8e6f0d8 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-22T16:39:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7860876.pdf: 94698 bytes, checksum: 1c0384c364e1f17f6e197502d8e6f0d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-28 Illinois Institute of Technology 2012-03-20 2010-12-28 7,860,876 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2682 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access