Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Angela Mills

Richard L Hasha

Jeffrey Bruce Parham

Gopal Krishna R Kakivaya

Andrew D Milligan

Charles R Reeves

Lawrence A Buerk

Daniel Joseph Rogers

Marcelo R Uemura

Colin S Cole

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.

Service discovery and publication

A method for automatically exchanging computer data is disclosed. The method includes the step of first generating a data file with a markup language in accordance with a predetermined schema. The schema is agreed upon by the source and destination location. Next, a software envelope containing the data file is generated. The software envelope is transmitted to the destination location. At the destination location, an object is created from the data file with a plugin object corresponding to the predetermined schema.

Method for request and response direct data transfer and management of content manifests

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