Automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network

Abstract

Systems and methods for automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network are disclosed. A device connected to a peer-to-peer network multicasts information about services that are active on the device (e.g., local services) and accessible to other devices on the network. The device can receive, from other devices on the network, multicasted information about services that are active on the other devices (e.g., remote services). The device includes a registry for maintaining information about available local and remote services. Each device in the network can send queries to active services on other devices on the network and receive notifications from those remote services when the remote services identify relevant data (e.g., data that satisfies the query).

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