CPC H04L 61/4552 (2022.05) [G06F 16/58 (2019.01); G06F 16/9566 (2019.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.05); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); H04L 67/1001 (2022.05); H04L 67/1008 (2013.01); H04L 67/10015 (2022.05); H04L 69/26 (2013.01); H04L 69/329 (2013.01)] |
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT: |
The patentability of claims 3, 6, 10, 14, 17, 23, 24 and 30 is confirmed. |
Claims 1 and 31 are cancelled. |
Claims 2, 4, 5, 7-9, 11-13, 15, 16, 18-22 and 25-29 were not reexamined. |
At the time of issuance and publication of this certificate, the patent remains subject to pending reexamination control numbers 90/019,109 and 90/019,162 filed Aug. 31, 2022 and Feb. 27, 2023 respectively. The claim content of the patent may be subsequently revised if a reexamination certificate issues from the reexamination proceedings. |
10. A system having a plurality of location servers for managing location information and providing location information to location queries, the system comprising:
a plurality of location servers containing location information corresponding to a plurality of entities, the location information formatted according to a transfer protocol configured for manipulating location information, and comprising at least one application server address, wherein the plurality of location servers are arranged in a cluster topology such that each location server contains a unique set of location information of an aggregate set of the location information; and
programming logic stored on each of the plurality of location servers responsive to a location query for a desired identifier to return one of a location message, wherein a queried location server returns a location message if the queried location server contains location information for the desired identifier, and a redirect message if the queried location server does not contain location information relevant to the desired identifier, wherein the redirect message comprises information for finding a location server having location information related to the desired identifier.
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