COMMUNICATION LINK GENERATION IN A CLOUD

• US 20080082671A1
• Filed: 12/20/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Treadwell, David R., Maggs, Michael, Glasgow, Dane A., MacLaurin, Matthew B., Meijer, Henricus Johannes Maria, Ozzie, Raymond E., Flake, Gary W., Raghavan, Kartik N., Bolosky, William J., Brumme, Christopher W., Blinn, Arnold N., Gounares, Alexander G., Glasser, Daniel S., Snyder, Ira L., Bergstraesser, Thomas F., Mishra, Debi P., Thekkath, Chandramohan A.
• Application Number:
  US11/613,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082671A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

A system and method that facilitates and effectuates communications between disparate clients that reside in a network topology (e.g., cloud). The system and method provides a component that receives one or more prospective end points, a set of desired communication criteria/characteristics, and desired content extant on one of the clients that reside on network topology. Additionally, the system and method provides a component that establishes communications pathways to one or more prospective end points or to subsequently identified end points to facilitate transfer of desired content from the end point to a requesting client.

Claims

1. A system implemented on a machine that retrieves desired data from disparate clients resident on a network topology, comprising:

a reception component that obtains a request for desired data; and

a connection component that locates the desired data resident on an identified client and establishes communications with the identified client based at least in part on a data type associated with the desired data.

2. The system of claim 1, the connection component receives one or more preferred communication parameters from the reception component.

3. The system of claim 2, the connection component based at least in part on the one or more preferred communication parameters and the data type associated with the desired data establishes communications with the identified client at an upper range of the one or more preferred communication parameters.

4. The system of claim 2, the connection component based at least in part on the one or more preferred communication parameters and the data type associated with the desired data adaptively maintains communications with the identified client at an upper range of the one or more preferred communication parameters.

5. The system of claim 2, the connection component based on the one or more preferred communication parameters and a change in the data type associated with the desired data dynamically adapts communications with the identified client to one of an upper range or a lower range of the one or more preferred communication parameters.

6. The system of claim 1, the desired data includes one or more of electronic mail, software licenses, digital certificates, streaming data, or static data.

7. The system of claim 1, further including an authentication component that dynamically adjusts a security level associated with the communications based at least in part on a perceived relative priority associated with the desired data.

8. The system of claim 7, the authentication component retrieves biometric information from an associated biometric component, the biometric information employed to assert one of a greater or lesser degree of security to the communications with the identified client.

9. The system of claim 7, the authentication component generates an encryption key to ensure secure communication with the identified client.

10. The system of claim 1, the connection component retrieves an establishment logic algorithm from a data repository.

11. The system of claim 1, the connection component dynamically and seamlessly transfers communications to a second identified client where communications with the identified client ceases to function.

12. A machine implemented method that effectuates retrieval of desired data from disparate clients that form a network topology, comprising:

obtaining a request for desired data from an application;

identifying a client that has persisted the desired data; and

establishing an adaptively modifiable communication link with the client based on a data attribute associated with the desired data.

13. The method of claim 12, further including retrieving desired communication parameters, the desired communication parameters include at least one of desired frame size, bit rate, and error rate.

14. The method of claim 13, the desired communication parameters and the data attribute associated with the desired data employed to establish the adaptively modifiable communication link with the client at a lower range of the desired communications parameters

15. The method of claim 13, the desired communication parameters and the data attribute associated with the desired data utilized to maintain the adaptively modifiable communication link with the client at a lower range of the desired communications parameters.

16. The method of claim 13, the desired communication parameters and the data attribute associated with the desired data employed to automatically one of upgrade or downgrade the adaptively modifiable communication link with the client to one of an upper range or a lower range of the desired communication parameters.

17. The method of claim 12, further including adjusting a security level associated with the adaptively modifiable communication link based on a priority associated with the desired data.

18. The method of claim 12, the desired data includes recorded audio/visual content, instant message data, static data, dynamic data, and digital certificates.

19. The method of claim 12, further including retrieving authentication information from one of a data repository or a biometric component and utilizing the authentication information to automatically adjust a security parameter associated with the adaptively modifiable communication link

20. A system that obtains desired content from disparate endpoint arranged to form a cloud, comprising:

means for locating the desired content on one endpoint included in the cloud;

means for establishing a connection with the one endpoint, the connection dynamically adaptable based on changes in the desired content during the connection with the one endpoint.