Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rastan Boroujerdi

Deepak Rao

Vadim Eydelman

Pradipta Kumar Basu

Amit A Sehgal

Sundar Anantharaman

Yves Pitsch

Aidan Downes

Dhruv Chopra

Calin M Popa

Santhosh Kopparapu

Michael K W Tsu

Yong Lim

Techniques to recursively discover services in a distributed environment may include receiving a request, including a unique client identifier, from a client device to access a home resource at a services site. The services site may identify which services site is mapped to the client domain of the unique client identifier in the request. If the services site that received the request is not the services site identified by the client domain, the services site that received the request may provide a redirect token that includes a link to the identified services site to the client device. Otherwise, the services site that received the request may provide one or more links to resources in a cluster within the services site. The links to resources may include a link to the requested home resource. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to discover services recursively in a distributed environment

Architecture for seamless role switching in application sharing. A multipoint control unit (MCU) can be used for connecting multiple clients over a network. An application sharing component establishes an application sharing session over the MCU, and application content is exchanged from a sharer client to one or more viewer clients. Each client can communicate a media connection preference to the session. Client sharer and viewer roles are defined during creation of the application sharing session. A client can seamlessly switch roles during the session from a viewer to a sharer, and vice-versa, so that different application content can be shared to the session viewers. The session can be restricted to only one sharer so that the viewing clients view one sharer client at a time.

Signaling support for sharer switching in application sharing

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Rastan Boroujerdi