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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2010
Ravichandran Ragunathan, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
Attaullah Seikh, Irvine, CA (US);
Rajini Bala Giridharagopal, Irvine, CA (US);
Ravichandran Ragunathan, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
Attaullah Seikh, Irvine, CA (US);
Rajini Bala Giridharagopal, Irvine, CA (US);
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Discovery of network services consumable by a client executing on a first device. A request is received from the client for a list of services. There is a determination of whether a second device on the network which maintains a current list of services can or can not be located. Responsive to a determination that the second device can not be located, a local cached copy of a list of services is returned to the client. Responsive to a determination that the second device can be located, a request for the current list of services is sent to the second device, and a response containing the current list of services is received from the second device. The current list of services is returned to the client.