Patent ID: 8756327
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing an application program interface for use by an application program of a resolution protocol to manage peer-to-peer identities, the application program of the resolution protocol and a server process being on a same node of a peer-to-peer network; receiving, at the server process on the same node, a peer identity create call having a plurality of call parameters comprising a classifier, a peer-to-peer friendly name, a handle to a container in which a key pair exists, and a pointer to a location to which an identity name should be returned; parsing, at the server process, the peer identity create call to retrieve the plurality of call parameters; returning to the application program a value indicative of a success or failure of the peer identity create call; the server process being configured to receive a peer identity delete call configured to delete one or more of certificates, private keys, or group information associated with a deleted identity; and the server process further being configured to receive a peer identity enumerate call configured to: