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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2002
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
LI Gong, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mohamed M. Abdelaziz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael J. Duigou, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Pouyoul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-christophe Hugly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William N. Joy, Aspen, CO (US);
Michael J. Clary, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Li Gong, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mohamed M. Abdelaziz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael J. Duigou, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Pouyoul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-Christophe Hugly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William N. Joy, Aspen, CO (US);
Michael J. Clary, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing rendezvous nodes in a peer-to-peer networking environment is described. Rendezvous nodes preferably cache information about network resources that may be useful to peer nodes on a peer-to-peer network. In one embodiment, a network of rendezvous nodes may help peer nodes to discover network resources over long-range on the peer-to-peer network. Network resource may include, but may not be limited to peer nodes, peer groups, services, content, and communication channels. In one embodiment, rendezvous nodes may respond to discovery query messages from peer nodes. The discovery query messages may specify desired network resource information. In one embodiment, rendezvous nodes may provide route discovery for network resources. In one embodiment, a peer node may be pre-configured with a pre-defined set of rendezvous nodes to access on startup. These bootstrapping rendezvous may help the peer node discover network resources that it needs to start up.