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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan A. Berkhahn, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel S. Lavine, Campbell, CA (US);
Simon M. Leung, San Jose, CA (US);
Eugene Michael Maximilien, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1063 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
Dynamic discovery of peers or services in different networks, where few or no servers may be required for the discovering process, is provided. Broadcasting used for the peer or service discovery may serve to reduce centralized bottlenecks and may serve to increase scalability.