Patent ID: 9219783
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a node including: a receiver to receive an indication that the node is to be activated as a selected machine of a group of sync-aware machines connected to a subnet of a network, each member of the group having information identifying all members of the group, wherein an identification of each member of the group is discovered via a monitoring engine included in the receiver of the node, wherein the information identifying all the members of the group is received by the monitoring engine monitoring multicast domain name service traffic on the subnet, and wherein the monitoring engine includes a multicast domain name service (mDNS) engine to listen to packages broadcast within the subnet, to search for other mDNS engines on other machines in the group, and to pair the mDNS engine and the other mDNS engines in the group; and a transmission module to transmit information, based on a record of activities conducted at the selected machine while the selected machine is active, to a remainder of the group to synchronize results of the activities with the remainder when the selected machine becomes inactive, wherein an active machine is activated due to the detected presence of a user operating that particular machine and an inactive machine is inactivated where the presence of the user operating that machine has not been detected for a time period though a processor of the inactive machine is still being utilized.