Managed peer name resolution protocol (PNRP) interfaces for peer to peer networking

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7496648
APP PUB NO 20050108371A1
SERIAL NO

10691764

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The managed system and methods of the present invention are segmented into 3 main areas: Clouds, Registrations, and Resolvers. The cloud object provides information about the clouds that are available. If a could is available, the Registration object can be used to register endpoints with the P2P name resolution protocol. Finally, if an application developer wishes to resolve a peer name to an IP address, they simply use the resolver object. The clouds may be monitored for state changes in one embodiment of the present invention through a CloudWatcher object.

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  • MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Donner, Robert D Sammamish, US 13 659
Manion, Todd R Redmond, US 59 2202
Simionescu, Radu Redmond, US 6 192

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