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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
May. 06, 2010
Jeffrey B. Parham, Redmond, WA (US);
Charles R. Reeves, Snohomish, WA (US);
Lawrence A. Buerk, Issaquah, WA (US);
Angela Mills, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard L. Hasha, Seattle, WA (US);
Gopal Krishna R. Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Andrew D. Milligan, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeffrey B. Parham, Redmond, WA (US);
Charles R. Reeves, Snohomish, WA (US);
Lawrence A. Buerk, Issaquah, WA (US);
Angela Mills, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard L. Hasha, Seattle, WA (US);
Gopal Krishna R. Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Andrew D. Milligan, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and methods for service discovery and publication are disclosed. Application programs write requests for service discovery, publication, and subscription to a service discovery application programming interface. The service discovery application programming interface invokes one or more lower-level protocols to satisfy the discovery, publication and/or subscription request. Service information retrieved from lower-layer protocols is formatted into a consistent data model and returned to the client application. In addition, service information may be stored in a persistent data store managed by a discovery persistence service communicatively connected to the service discovery API.