Patent ID: 7525928
Filing Date: 2009-04-28
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A system for a discovering electronic device to discover the network address of a discoverable electronic device which is connected to the same computer network as the discovering device and which is located at a site remote from the discovering device, comprising: a general purpose computing device residing in the discovering electronic device; a computer program comprising program modules executable by the general purpose computing device, wherein the computing device is directed by the program modules of the computer program to, the signature, request and reply signals are audio signals that are sent between the discovering and discoverable devices over a communications medium not comprising said network, and wherein the signature signal initiated by the discoverable electronic device further comprises an indicator indicating the type of electronic device it is, wherein transmitting the request signal is executed only for a discoverable device of the type that it is desired for the discovering device to establish communications with, and wherein the device type ascertained from the indicator included in the signature signal initiated by the discoverable electronic device.