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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:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2003
Jean-christophe Hugly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mohamed M. Abdelaziz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Pouyoul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael J. Duigou, Fremont, CA (US);
Jean-Christophe Hugly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mohamed M. Abdelaziz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Pouyoul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael J. Duigou, Fremont, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for describing and identifying abstract software modules in peer-to-peer networking environments. A module class may have one or more module specifications. Each module specification may have one or more module implementations. A module class advertisement may be generated for the module class. A unique module class identifier may be assigned to the module class. A role extension to the module class identifier may be generated for each instance of the module class that performs a different role in a context. A unique module specification identifier may be assigned to each module specification of the module class. In one embodiment, a module specification advertisement may be generated for each module specification. In one embodiment, there may be one or more module implementations for each module specification. In one embodiment, a module implementation advertisement may be generated for each module implementation.