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Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2012
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Steven Neil Simon, San Jose, CA (US);

David M. O'Rourke, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/06 (2013.01); H04L 29/12113 (2013.01); H04L 61/1541 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/1095 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for a client computer to find a network address of a server computer by searching for the network address using at a backup search procedure if the address of the server computer cannot be identified using a primary search procedure. The primary and backup search procedures can be performed in parallel and multiple backup search procedures can be performed to identify the address of the server computer. Alternatively, the primary and backup search procedures can be performed in serial wherein the backup search procedure is performed only when the primary search procedure does not identify the address of the server computer.


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