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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Min Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Anthony V. Discolo, Sammamish, WA (US);
Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kean Ee Lim, Issaquah, WA (US);
Ryan B. Elgram, Bothell, WA (US);
Donald F. Box, Bellevue, WA (US);
Martin J. Gudgin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Zhangwei Xu, Redmond, WA (US);
Todd R. Manion, Seattle, WA (US);
Grant Gardner, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeremy L. Dewey, Duvall, WA (US);
Shiraz J. Cupala, Seattle, WA (US);
Curt A. Steeb, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Device linking is described. In one or more implementations, data is maintained at a network service that describes characteristics of a plurality of devices that are associated with a user account of the network service. A communication is formed to be received by one of the plurality of devices that includes a portion of the data that pertains to another one of the plurality of devices and that is suitable by the receiving device to discover the other one of the plurality of devices to initiate a local network connection between the devices.