Socket peering

US10944834B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Christoph Saalfeld · Seattle, US
• Tristam Kyle MacDonald · Seattle, US
• Gary Wicker · Bainbridge Island, US
• Justin Robert Knoepfler · Seattle, US
• Kyle Michael Roche · Mercer Island, US
• Frank Lovecchio · Seattle, US
• Bryant Cutler · Maple Valley, US
• Qing Ju · Truckee, US
• Shyam Krishnamoorthy · Redmond, US
• Alexandra Elizabeth Baoboe Lee · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 2016
• Grant date: Mar 9, 2021
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/1095
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A socket service may be used to link a peer socket to another peer socket. The peer socket is for communicating data to and from a client device and the other peer socket is for communicating data to and from another client device. If a socket opens and the corresponding peer socket is not yet open then the socket waits for the corresponding peer socket to open. When a client device requests a socket to be opened, the client device requests a particular client-defined function mapping to be associated with the socket. When the socket is opened, the endpoint specified in the client-defined function mapping is invoked. An identifier associated with the client device is sent to the endpoint. If the endpoint returns a socket identifier for another socket, then the socket service links the peer socket to the other peer socket, linking the client device to another client device.