Method and arrangement for supressing duplicate network resources
US7747747B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 6, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jun 29, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 25, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/1004
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A duplicate suppression protocol is introduced in order to suppress duplicate entries from appearing in a list of available network resources. With the duplicate suppression protocol of the present invention, a computer that wishes to query for network resources also asks for duplicate suppression information from the responding network resources. The duplicate suppression information for a particular network resource specifies identifiers associated with that network resource for various protocols. Thus, if a particular network resource responds to more than one network resource request from a single requesting entity, that requesting entity will be able to locate duplicate network resource information. Thus, a single unified list of network resources available for various different protocols may be presented with all duplicate network resources removed.
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