Patent ID: 9106481
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by a device-to-device (“D2D”) tapping service (“DTS”) layer of a communication stack of a computing device, from an application executing within an application layer of the communication stack, a request for a resource; determining, by the DTS layer, whether the resource is locally resident on the computing device; determining, by the DTS layer, whether the resource would be useful to the application or a user of the computing device only if available on another computing device within a non-remote physical proximity of the computing device; and issuing, by the DTS layer, a domain name system (“DNS”) request through a network layer of the communication stack to facilitate transparent access by the application to the resource on a remote computing device, wherein the issuing is in response to a determination that the resource is not locally resident on the computing device and is further in response to a determination that the resource would be useful only if available on another computing device within the non-remote physical proximity of the computing device.