A method for transferring a queue position for a peer communication terminal is provided. This method involves a first peer communication terminal receiving a request message from a second peer communication terminal, the request message being used to request connection setup between the first and second peer communication terminals for retrieval of a file. The second peer communication terminal is then put into a file-retrieval queue on the first peer communication terminal. The first peer communication terminal sends an information message to the second peer communication terminal as soon as the second peer communication terminal has reached a predetermined position in the queue. The transmission of the information message is terminated by a proxy node before the information message reaches the second peer communication terminal. The proxy node transfers the predetermined position in the queue to a third peer communication terminal.

@{patent:20060034306,
  title     = "Method for transferring a queue position",
  number    = "20060034306",
  author    = "Andersen, Frank-uwe (Berlin, DE), De Meer, Hermann (Passau, DE), Dedinksi, Ivan (Passau, DE), 
    Hossfeld, Toblas (Wurzburg, DE), Kappler, Cornella (Berlin, DE), Maeder, Andreas (Wurzburg, DE), 
    Oberender, Jens Oliver (Paussau, DE), Tran-gia, Phuoc (Wurzburg, DE), Tutschku, Kurt (Gerbrunn, DE)",
  year      = "2006",
  month     = "February",
  url       = "http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20060034306.html"
}