Google Inc.

Apple Inc.

Robert Quattlebaum

Jeffery Theodore Lee

Robert Szewczyk

Vaas Krishnamurthy

Joe S Abuan

Berkat S Tung

Roberto Garcia, Jr

Barry A Whitebook

Systems and methods for waking a fabric network of devices and communicating messages among the devices are described herein. An electronic device can communicate with other electronic devices of a fabric network broadcasting a wake message to the fabric network in response to an awakening event. The wake message can include a reason for triggering a wakeup of each device in the fabric network and a wake time signaling period. After the wake time signaling period lapses, a fabric message can be broadcasted to the fabric network, and the fabric message can be selectively rebroadcasted.

Systems and methods for disseminating messages among a fabric network

Systems and methods for waking up devices of a fabric network

In the described embodiments, a connection data exchange ('CDX') service serves as an exchange point for connection data for establishing peer-to-peer ('P2P') connections between devices. During operation, the CDX service can receive a connection data structure (a &#x201c;ticket&#x201d;) that was created by a matchmaker or an invitation service in response to requests from devices attempting to establish P2P connections. Each ticket can identify a corresponding device and can include encrypted NAT hole-punch data associated with the corresponding device. The CDX service can authenticate each ticket and decrypt the NAT hole punch data from the ticket using a corresponding key. The CDX service can then use corresponding NAT hole punch data to send connection data to each of the devices that reside behind NAT devices.

Apparatus and method for efficiently and securely exchanging connection data

An apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium are described for securely and efficiently exchanging connection data for a peer-to-peer ('P2P') session on a network comprising. For example, in one embodiment, a connection data exchange ('CDX') service can perform the function of a central exchange point for connection data. In one embodiment, the CDX service can perform the operations of receiving a connection data structure, sometimes referred to herein as a &#x201c;ticket,&#x201d; created by a matchmaker or an invitation service in response to requests from a group of mobile computing devices attempting to establish peer-to-peer (&#x201c;P2P&#x201d;) connections. The ticket can identify each of the group of mobile computing devices and can include encrypted NAT hole punch data associated with each of the mobile computing devices. The CDX service can authenticate the ticket and decrypt the NAT hole punch data contained in the ticket using a CDX ticket key used by the matchmaker service or the invitation service to encrypt the ticket. Once the ticket is authenticated and the hole punch data retrieved, the CDX service can send connection data to each of the mobile computing devices residing behind NAT devices using the NAT hole punch data.

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