System and Method for Service Discovery in a Large Network
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorChandrasekhar Puthillathe
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Abstract
Service discovery is accomplished across a network with reduced traffic. Network devices often receive multicast discovery requests for various protocols and/or services, which increase network traffic and degrade network performance. Here, though, a server maintains a membership list for a particular protocol. The server populates the membership list with subnet devices that confirm the particular protocol. Whenever the server receives a discovery request associated with the protocol, the server need not clog its subnet with multicast requests. Instead, the server need only retrieve the membership list that is associated with the protocol. The membership list contains the subnet addresses assigned to the subnet devices that confirm the particular protocol.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a server, a discovery request from a requesting device, the discovery request specifying a protocol and requesting a multicast to devices networked to the server via a local area network;
- identifying, by the server, a membership list that is associated with the protocol specified by the discovery request;
- and
- sending, by the server, the membership list to the requesting device;
- wherein the membership list specifies particular ones of the devices known to confirm the protocol specified by the discovery request.
An information handling system, comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a memory device accessible to the hardware processor, the memory device storing instructions that when executed cause the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations including:
- receiving a discovery request from a requesting device, the discovery request specifying a protocol and requesting a multicast to devices networked to the server via a local area network;
- identifying a membership list that is associated with the protocol specified by the discovery request;
- and
- sending the membership list to the requesting device;
- wherein the membership list specifies particular ones of the devices known to confirm the protocol specified by the discovery request.
A memory device storing instructions that when executed cause a hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving a discovery request from a requesting device, the discovery request specifying a protocol and requesting a multicast to devices networked to the server via a local area network;
- identifying a membership list that is associated with the protocol specified by the discovery request;
- and
- sending the membership list to the requesting device;
- wherein the membership list specifies particular ones of the devices known to confirm the protocol specified by the discovery request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.