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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2006
David Jones, Seattle, WA (US);
Eliot J. Flannery, Seattle, WA (US);
Todd R. Manion, Redmond, WA (US);
Gursharan Sidhu, Seattle, WA (US);
David Jones, Seattle, WA (US);
Eliot J. Flannery, Seattle, WA (US);
Todd R. Manion, Redmond, WA (US);
Gursharan Sidhu, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A session manager recognizes the creation of a new collaboration session and creates a new network connection to host the collaboration session using information about the new collaboration session. More specifically, an identifier for the new host network connection is based on the name given to the collaboration session. In this way, other computing devices can discover existing collaboration sessions by scanning the identifiers of existing network connections without actually having to connect to the available networks first.