Peer discovery
CA 2544014 C · Owner: Avaya Canada Corp. · Inventors: Poustchi, Behrouz; Stelzig, James Andrew; Gagnon, Natalie Ann
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Upon initial connection of a peer to a peer-to-peer network the peer notifies , other peers of its connection to the network. The peer receives existence notifications from other peers and may use them to create a list of the peers on the network, which may be sorted by the unique identifiers of each peer. A prospective network address is selected e.g. based on the ordinal position of the peer within the sorted list. Conflict checking resolves conflicts between the prospective network address and the network address of other peers. Each peer may periodically notify the other peers of its network address e.g. to , prevent new peers from claiming the address. When a peer becomes …
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- Filed November 12, 2004 and granted July 14, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 12, 2024.
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