Patent ID: 8402053
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for discovering information that is related to a unique object identifier from a decentralized collection of computing systems that have stored information in association with the unique object identifier, the method comprising: identifying, in a computing device, a unique object identifier that a third computing system had previously transmitted to a second computing system, and that the second computing system had previously transmitted to a first computing system, wherein: forwarding, from the computing device and to the first computing system, a first information request that includes the unique object identifier; receiving, in the computing device and from the first computing system in response to the first information request, the first information that the first computing system has stored in association with the unique object identifier; receiving, in the computing device and from the first computing system in response to the first information request, an identifier of the second computing system; forwarding, from the computing device and to the second computing system as a result of having received the identifier of the second computing system from the first computing system, a second information request that includes the unique object identifier; receiving, in the computing device and from the second computing system in response to the second information request, the second information that the second computing system has stored in association with the unique object identifier, receiving, in the computing device and from the second computing system in response to the second information request, an identifier of the third computing system; forwarding, from the computing device and to the third computing system as a result of having received the identifier of the third computing system from the second computing system, a third information request that includes the unique object identifier; and receiving, in the computing device and from the third computing system in response to the third information request, the third information that the third computing system has stored in association with the unique object identifier.