We monitor over a dozen different Peer to Peer file sharing "communities". Each community is a pool of media files that are available for download by one or more client program. For example, the Gnutella community is accessible by the clients of Bearshare and Limewire. We monitor the Gnutella community with our proprietary process. The Fastrack community is accessible by Kaaza and Grokster. We monitor the Fastrack community with our proprietary process.	Our system locates new discoveries on these "communites". We record the "discovery", we identify the source node by regional location, type of location. Our system then data smoothes the name of the "Discovery" and fingerprints the identity of the item with our p2pDNA system. We cross tabulate among the different Peer to Peer communites to arrive at an overall number for the day. We then have the ability to report the data daily, weekly, monthly, and so on. We could define the data period as anything fits the BarBann clients needs. The possibilities are endless.

Generally speaking, the many communities share a similar strategy for sharing files. An individual user node (A in the figure at left) links to three other users (B, C, and D). Node A can share files with these three nodes directly. If Node A is looking for a file that Nodes B, C, and D do not have then; Node B would request the file from Node 1, 2, and 3; Node C would request the file from Node 4, 5, and 6; Node D would request the file from Node 7, 8, and 9. If any nodes of the tertiary level do not have the file then the process continues until the file is found or the system limit for requests is reached. She told two friends, and they told two friends and so on, and so on .... and so on ....