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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Henrique Filgueiras, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mukund Sankaranarayan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amer A. Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mitesh K. Desai, Redmond, WA (US);
Mahmoud S. Elhaddad, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computing device that forms a group in accordance with a peer-to-peer protocol in which a device may be identified based on a credential of a user. The credential may be used to determine a unique identifier for the user such that the same identifier is used on any device operated by the same user. Such an identifier may be used in connection with a peer-to-peer protocol that supports persistent peer-to-peer groups. As a result, the unique identifier for the user may be retained by remote devices that have paired with any device operated by a particular user such that those remote devices may automatically establish a connection with any other device operated by the same user that similarly uses the same unique identifier for the user.