PeerChannel Specs

While searching for detailed information about the internals of Peer Channel I came across the actual specification for the Peer Channel and the actual patent that Microsoft submitted for it. This information should be really helpful, and is actual pretty interesting just in the sense of how a company like Microsoft thinks and lays out software design. The links are below in case anyone else is interested…

Peer Channel Protocol Specification
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/e/95ef66af-9026-4bb0-a41d-a4f81802d92c/%5BMC-PRCH%5D.pdf

US Patent
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20060212592.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060212592RS=DN/20060212592

Update: Just noticed the release date on the document: Thursday, March 13, 2008 - no wonder I never found it before...