Patent ID: 7453875
Filing Date: 2008-11-18
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. At a sending computer system in a computerized environment in which a sending computer seeks to identify one or more available network resources on a network, a method of sending a request to one or more computers for the available resources in a manner that does not necessarily incur the overhead of connection-oriented communication, comprising the acts of: identifying the presence of one or more computer systems on a network; encapsulating a simple object access protocol (SOAP) message within a user datagram by determining an appropriate formatting of the SOAP message for compliance with a user datagram protocol (UDP) communication protocol when sending the user datagram to the identified one or more computer systems, wherein the SOAP message comprises at least, (i) a request for an availability of one or more resources for the one or more computer systems, and (ii) a reply address for sending a response to the request; sending the user datagram to the identified one or more computer systems through the UDP communication protocol; and receiving a response from at least one of the one or more computer systems that includes information about the availability of the one or more resources.