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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2002
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory L. Slaughter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas E. Saulpaugh, San Jose, 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);
LI Gong, Los Altos, CA (US);
William J. Yeager, Menlo Park, CA (US);
William N. Joy, Aspen, CO (US);
Michael J. Clary, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory L. Slaughter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas E. Saulpaugh, San Jose, 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);
Li Gong, Los Altos, CA (US);
William J. Yeager, Menlo Park, CA (US);
William N. Joy, Aspen, CO (US);
Michael J. Clary, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A peer-to-peer platform that may provide mechanisms through which peers may discover each other, communicate with each other, and cooperate with each other to form peer groups is described. The peer-to-peer platform may comprise several layers including a peer-to-peer platform layer, a peer-to-peer services layer, and a peer-to-peer applications layer. At the highest abstraction level, the peer-to-peer platform may be viewed as a set of protocols. Each protocol may be defined by one or more messages exchanged among participants of the protocol. In one embodiment, the peer-to-peer platform may include, but is not limited to, one or more of a peer discovery protocol, a peer resolver protocol, a peer information protocol, a peer membership protocol, a pipe binding protocol, and an endpoint routing protocol. To underpin this set of protocols, the peer-to-peer platform may define a number of concepts including peer, peer group, advertisement, message, pipe, and endpoint.