SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING, ADVERTISING, AND FINDING NETWORKED SERVICES USING DYNAMIC DIRECTORY

摘要

A method and system for advertising and updating network services on the network having a plurality of host machines connected thereto. The in-process dynamic directory (140) associated with an application program (110) residing in a host machine (100) associates a network service to a network address specified in an advertising request received from the application program (110) and transmits an update event message for the advertised network service via reliable multicast to a plurality of application programs residing in other host machines in the network.