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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2004
Sanjay Kalra, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Kalra, San Jose, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A service/device discovery protocol which allows a customer premise device (CPD) to automatically discover other CPDs sharing common service related characteristics, and techniques for self-configuration of the service are described. For example, when a new customer site or CPD is to be added to an existing shared service, the service discovery protocol allows a CPD at the new customer site to automatically discover the other customer sites and/or CPDs associated with the existing shared service. The self-configuration techniques allow the new CPD to automatically configure itself as a member of the shared service, and also allow the existing CPDs to update their service configuration information to include the new customer site and/or CPD.