Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Managing scope of network services
- Patent Title (中): 管理网络服务的范围
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Application No.: US13730853Application Date: 2012-12-29
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Publication No.: US09253263B2Publication Date: 2016-02-02
- Inventor: Kenji Niimura
- Applicant: Kenji Niimura
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham LLP
- Agent Daniel D. Ledesma
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
Approaches are provided for managing scope of and access to network services. In one approach, a source device and a target device are each provisioned with a service connector that is configured to communicate with a service manager that executes on a device that is different than the source and target devices. Using its service connector, the source device is able to discover a network service hosted by the target device even though the source device and target device are in different subnets or networks. In another approach, a service manager limits which network services are visible to a source device even though the network services are hosted on target devices that are on the same subnet as the source device. In this approach, the source device uses a service connector to discover the service manager and receive a list of registered services hosted on one or more target devices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140189116A1 MANAGING SCOPE OF NETWORK SERVICES Public/Granted day:2014-07-03
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