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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
May. 31, 2001
Gene H. Kan, Belmont, CA (US);
Yaroslav Faybishenko, Berkeley, CA (US);
Douglass R. Cutting, Petaluma, CA (US);
Thomas J. Camarda, Staten Island, NY (US);
David M. Doolin, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Steve Waterhouse, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gene H. Kan, Belmont, CA (US);
Yaroslav Faybishenko, Berkeley, CA (US);
Douglass R. Cutting, Petaluma, CA (US);
Thomas J. Camarda, Staten Island, NY (US);
David M. Doolin, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Steve Waterhouse, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed network search mechanism may be provided for consumers coupled to a network to search information providers coupled to the network. Consumers may make search requests according to a query routing protocol. A network hub may be configured to receive search requests from consumers. The hub may also receive registration requests from information providers according to the query routing protocol. Information providers register with the hub to indicate search queries in which they are interested in receiving. When a query request is received, the hub resolves the query request with a provider registration index. The hub matches search query information from the query request with provider registrations to determine which providers have registered to receive search queries like the current search query. The hub then routes the search query to matching providers according to the query routing protocol.