proprietary protocol

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proprietary
adjective[before noun]
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/prəˈpraɪə.tər.i/us
/prəˈpraɪə.ter.i/
relating to owning something, or relating to or like ...
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protocol
noun
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/ˈprəʊ.tə.kɒl/us
/ˈproʊ.t̬ə.kɑːl/
the system of rules and acceptable behaviour used at official ceremonies ...
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These systems often have their own internal email format and their clients typically communicate with the email server using a vendor-specific,proprietaryprotocol.
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These offerings useproprietaryprotocolelements, and the top-level architectures being promoted are radically different.
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This is aproprietaryprotocoland very little is known about its operation.
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Skype's client uses an undocumented andproprietaryprotocol.
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However, it quickly became clear that the number of proprietary protocols was becoming unmanageable.
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These information exchanges are implemented via dozens of open and proprietary protocols, message and file formats.
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The framework enables existing transaction processing, workflow, and other systems for coordination to hide their proprietary protocols and to operate in a heterogeneous environment.
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If fuzzing is based only on published specifications, test coverage for new or proprietary protocols will be limited or nonexistent.
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The keyboard and mouse used simple proprietary protocols, allowing some third-party upgrades.
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Generally these devices do not provide the benefits of data migration or replication across heterogeneous storage, as each vendor tends to use their own proprietary protocols.
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The use of proprietary protocols has meant that many instant messaging networks have been incompatible and users have been unable to reach users on other networks.
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