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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2007
Carl M. Ellison, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul J. Leach, Seattle, WA (US);
Butler W. Lampson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Melissa W. Dunn, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ravindra N. Pandya, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Charles W. Kaufman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Carl M. Ellison, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul J. Leach, Seattle, WA (US);
Butler W. Lampson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Melissa W. Dunn, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ravindra N. Pandya, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Charles W. Kaufman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure pertains to a domain identification system, comprising a principal that has a key and a mnemonically meaningless identifier, the mnemonically meaningless identifier is used to identify the component in a networked environment. The mnemonically meaningless identifier can be bound to the public key by a binding. The component may be part of a neighborhood of components, and each member component knows the members' binding.