Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Lawrence A Buerk

Richard L Hasha

Jeffrey Bruce Parham

Gopal Krishna R Kakivaya

Andrew D Milligan

Charles R Reeves

Angela Mills

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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Lawrence A Buerk