Patent ID: 7640329
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for leveraging peer-to-peer network infrastructure to disseminate a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device announcement from a UPnP enabled device to other UPnP enabled devices in a UPnP network, the method comprising: receiving, at a UPnP device discovery proxy, the UPnP device announcement, wherein the UPnP device discovery proxy is located on a first peer group member of a peer-to-peer group in a peer-to-peer networking infrastructure and each member of the peer-to-peer group includes UPnP functionality; updating a peer group data store at the first peer group member with a record corresponding to the UPnP device announcement; propagating, using a flooding mechanism of the peer-to-peer networking infrastructure without a facilitation of a UPnP control point, the record corresponding to the UPnP device announcement to a replicated local instance of the peer group data store residing on each of all other peer group members of the peer-to-peer group; and at the each of the all other peer group members: