AD HOC PROXY FOR DISCOVERY AND RETRIEVAL OF DYNAMIC DATA SUCH AS A LIST OF ACTIVE DEVICES

摘要

The claimed method and system describes a dynamic construction of a virtual proxy using a set of virtual proxy hosts. The virtual proxy hosts may maintain a shared data store that contains a record of discovered services on a network. The virtual proxy hosts may work together to respond to discovery requests using the shared data store. Clients on a network having a virtual proxy host may be limited to unicast discovery requests with the virtual proxy host, thereby reducing broadcast traffic.