Microsoft patents peer-to-peer network service discovery
Microsoft describes a system where devices on a peer-to-peer network automatically announce what services they offer to other nearby devices. Each device keeps a list of available services from itself and others, allowing them to send queries and receive specific data without a central server.
In the filing’s own words
Systems and methods for automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network are disclosed. A device connected to a peer-to-peer network multicasts information about services that are active on the device (e.g., local services) and accessible to other devices on the network. The device can receive, from other devices on the network, multicasted information about services that are active on the other devices (e.g., remote services). The device includes a registry for maintaining information about available local and remote services. Each device in the network can send queries to active services on other devices on the network and receive notifications from those remote services when the remote services identify relevant data (e.g., data that satisfies the query).
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1.- 20. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- AUTOMATIC SERVICE DISCOVERY AND INTER-SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK
- Publication number
- US20260292022A1
- Application number
- 19465460
- Filed
- Jan 30, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
H04L 67/1063 Electricity & electronicsH04L 67/1044 Electricity & electronicsH04L 67/145 Electricity & electronicsMore from Microsoft in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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