Service discovery and publication
CA 2782812 C · Owner: Microsoft Corporation · Inventors: Buerk, Lawrence A.; Mills, Angela; Hasha, Richard L.
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A system and methods for service discovery and publication are disclosed. Application programs write requests for service discovery publication, and subscription to a service discovery application programming interface. The service discovery application programming interface invokes one or more lower- level protocols to satisfy the discovery publication and/or subscription request. Service information retrieved from lower-layer protocols is formatted into a consistent data model and returned to the client application. In addition service information may be stored in a persistent data store managed by a discovery persistence service communicatively connected to the service discovery API.
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- Filed July 21, 2004 and granted September 8, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 21, 2024.
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