Integrated network and application session establishment

US8244808B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• David Jones · Seattle, US
• Eliot Flannery · Redmond, US
• Todd R. Manion · Seattle, US
• Gursharan Sidhu · Menlo Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 26, 2006
• Grant date: Aug 14, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 14, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A session manager recognizes the creation of a new collaboration session and creates a new network connection to host the collaboration session using information about the new collaboration session. More specifically, an identifier for the new host network connection is based on the name given to the collaboration session. In this way, other computing devices can discover existing collaboration sessions by scanning the identifiers of existing network connections without actually having to connect to the available networks first.