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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2003
Warren Keith Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Webster Newman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Trevor Fredrick Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jana Zdislava Sedivy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Karen Marcelo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shahram Izadi, Surbiton, GB;
Jason I. Hong, Berkeley, CA (US);
Warren Keith Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Webster Newman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Trevor Fredrick Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jana Zdislava Sedivy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Karen Marcelo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shahram Izadi, Surbiton, GB;
Jason I. Hong, Berkeley, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates dynamic delivery of service profiles to a client. During operation, the system performs a discovery operation to allow the client to discover new services on a network. If a new service is discovered for which the client does not possess a service profile, the client to obtains the service profile from the new service and subsequently installs it, thereby enabling the client to interact with the new service.