Service discovery
AssigneeCable Television Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsAmol Bhagwat, Darshak Thakore, Clarke Stevens
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Abstract
Service discovery and other operations related to enabling devices to announce, discover or otherwise control their services and/or the services offered or available from other devices is contemplated. The service discovery may facilitate service discovery for services sourced from devices inside and outside of a network and/or from devices having incompatible messaging capabilities.
Claims10
A service discovery system for facilitating automatic discovery by a device, the device being connected to a first network associated with a gateway configured to interface communications between the first network and a second network, the system comprising:
- a server processor in operable communication with the gateway;
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- a memory having non-transitory instructions stored therein, which, when executed by the server processor, cause the server processor to:
- register services available over the first network as a function of a device profile transmitted to the gateway by a plurality of IP and non-IP devices connected to the first network;
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- provide a formatted listing of the registered services to the device connected to the first network, in response to receipt of a corresponding request for a list of registered services, the formatted listing including an identification of:
- (i) an address for each service associated with one corresponding device of the plurality of IP and non-IP devices as an address of the corresponding device;
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- (ii) an IP address for each service associated with one of the non-IP devices as the IP address of the gateway.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.