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Approach for discovering network resources

  • US 20070097969A1
  • Filed: 11/02/2005
  • Published: 05/03/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A network resource configured to:

  • generate and transmit a plurality of multicast messages to a plurality of recipients over a communications network, wherein;

    each multicast message from the plurality of multicast messages indicates that the network resource is available and ready, and time intervals between the transmission of multicast messages from the plurality of multicast messages increase in duration over time;

    in response to receiving a multicast query message from a particular recipient from the plurality of recipients, determining whether the multicast query message contains identification data that identifies the network resource or type data that matches one or more type attributes of the network resource; and

    if the multicast query message contains identification data that identifies the network resource or type data that matches one or more type attributes of the network resource, then the network resource generating and transmitting a unicast message to the particular recipient to acknowledge the multicast query message and to indicate that the network resource is available and ready.

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