EXTENDING SERVICE DISCOVERY INTO CLOUD COMPUTING

摘要

Providing service discovery in a communication network comprises adding service discovery information for a first network to a domain name system (DNS). The service discovery information provides for devices to discover devices and services that the devices support. Service information is discovered from the service discovery information over the communication network. One or more services from the first network are selected from the discovered service information. One or more services are accessed over the communication network from the first local network.