Patent ID: 7647394
Filing Date: 2010-01-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for leveraging peer-to-peer network infrastructure to disseminate a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device event notification from a UPnP enabled device to other UPnP enabled devices on a UPnP network, the UPnP enabled devices registered to receive event notifications, and the method comprising: receiving, at a UPnP device eventing proxy registered to receive event notifications, the UPnP device event notification, wherein the UPnP device eventing 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 event notification; 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 event notification 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: