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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2007
Pavel Cisler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Iarocci, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Marc Jason Krochmal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher Brooke Sharp, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Scott Linn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mikhail Gonodanov, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon P. Cooper, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard Murphy, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Pavel Cisler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Iarocci, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Marc Jason Krochmal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher Brooke Sharp, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Scott Linn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mikhail Gonodanov, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon P. Cooper, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard Murphy, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
This description relates to methods and systems for providing a connection from a first system to another system using a server. In one embodiment, a method includes establishing at a first data processing system (DPS) a connection with a server providing a service to both the first DPS and a second DPS, the server being operatively coupled to the first DPS and the second DPS, and the server having received from the second DPS an address information; receiving from the server the address information of the second DPS; and establishing at the first DPS a connection, using the address information from the server, with the second DPS to receive a sharing service from the second DPS.