Service support framework for peer to peer applications

• US 7,543,023 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2005
• Issued: 06/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Dewey, Jeremy L., Gupta, Ashish, Rao, Ravi T., Iyer, Padmini Chandrasekhar
• Primary Examiner(s): WON, MICHAEL YOUNG
• Application Number:
  US11/080,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20060224748A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,540 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/205, 709/212, 709/216, 709/220, 709/221, 709/222, 709/227, 709/228
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1854 with non-centralised forwarding system, e.g. chaincast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1046 Joining mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1055 involving connection limits involving dynamic management of active down- or uploading connections H04L67/1085

Abstract

The claimed system is a service support framework for a multicast programming system implemented on top of a service oriented framework, specifically a service oriented messaging system.

Claims

1. In a peer networking enabled computer adapted to be part of a network of computing devices interoperating via a multicast peer networking protocol having an implementation of a peer networking protocol, a method of creating a client or a service comprising:

calling for a binding element;

calling for a resolver element;

allowing for the selection of a message encoding binding element;

if the method is creating a client, using the binding elements to create and configure a channel factory using default parameters;

if the method if creating a service, using the binding elements to create and configure a listener factory using default parameters;

setting default parameters using the binding elements comprising;

setting a maximum number of advertised addresses per neighbor to a default value;

setting a neighbor service port to a default value;

setting a neighbor service transport setting to a default value; and

allowing for manual addressing setting;

if the method is creating a client, returning the configured channel factory; and

if the method is creating a service, returning the configured listener factory.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising setting the maximum advertised addresses per neighbor to a default value of twenty five.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising setting the neighbor service port using the default value of the underlying transport mechanism.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising setting the Neighbor service transport to a default of TCP.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising allow the default values to be modified.

6. A computing apparatus, comprising:

a display unit that is capable of generating video images;

an input device;

a processing apparatus operatively coupled to said display unit and said input device, said processing apparatus comprising a processor and a memory operatively coupled to said processor,

a network interface connected to a network and to the processing apparatus;

in a peer networking enabled computer adapted to be part of a network of computing devices interoperating via a multicast peer networking protocol having an implementation of a peer networking protocol, said processing apparatus being programmed to create a service or a client comprising;

calling for a binding element;

calling for a resolver element;

allowing for the selection of a message encoding binding element;

if the method is creating a client, using the binding elements to create and configure a channel factory using default parameters;

if the method if creating a service, using the binding elements to create and configure a listener factory using default parameters;

setting default parameters using the binding elements comprising;

setting a maximum number of advertised addresses per neighbor to a default value;

setting a neighbor service port to a default value;

setting a neighbor service transport setting to a default value; and

allowing for manual addressing setting;

if the method is creating a client, returning the configured channel factory; and

if the method is creating a service, returning the configured listener factory.

7. The computing apparatus of claim 6, further comprising programming the processor to set the maximum advertised addresses per neighbor to a default value of twenty five.

8. The computing apparatus claim 6, further comprising programming the processor to set the neighbor service port using the default value of the underlying transport mechanism.

9. The computing apparatus of claim 6, further comprising programming the processor to set a Neighbor service transport to a default of TCP.

10. The computing apparatus of claim 6, further comprising allowing the default values to be modified.

11. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for performing a method of creating a client or a service in a peer networking enabled computer adapted to be part of a network of computing devices interoperating via a multicast peer networking protocol having an implementation of a peer networking protocol, comprising:

computer executable instructions for calling for a binding element;

computer executable instructions for calling for a resolver element;

allowing for the selection of a message encoding binding element;

if the method is creating a client, computer executable instructions for using the binding elements to create and configure a channel factory using default parameters;

if the method if creating a service, computer executable instructions for using the binding elements to create and configure a listener factory using default parameters;

computer executable instructions for setting default parameters using the binding elements comprising;

computer executable instructions for setting a peer transport binding element to a default value;

computer executable instructions for setting a maximum number of advertised addresses per neighbor to a default value;

computer executable instructions for setting a maximum message size to a default value;

computer executable instructions for setting a neighbor service port to a default value;

computer executable instructions for setting a neighbor service transport setting to a default value; and

computer executable instructions for allowing for manual addressing setting;

if the method is creating a client, returning the configured channel factory; and

if the method is creating a service, returning the configured listener factory.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising computer executable instructions for setting the maximum advertised addresses per neighbor to a default value of twenty five.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising computer executable instructions for setting the neighbor service port using the default value of the underlying transport mechanism.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising computer executable instructions for allowing the default values to be modified.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising computer executable instructions for setting the Neighbor service transport to a default of TCP.