Patent ID: 11916897
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method performed by a computing system, the method comprising:
receiving, by a server component of a cloud computing system, an indication of an access request associated with a client computing system, the access request requesting access to a resource server;
verifying that the client computing system is authorized to access the resource server;
selecting, by the server component based on the verification, a selected client-facing port on the server component and generate an access rule configured to permit access by the client computing system to the selected client-facing port for an exposure duration defined by the access rule;
sending, to the client computing system, port information that identifies the selected client-facing port;
receiving, from the client computing system, first information on the selected client-facing port on the server component;
based on the access rule, forwarding the first information from the server component to the resource server through a resource server port of the resource server;
receiving second information from the resource server through the resource server port; and
forwarding the second information to the client computing system on the selected client-facing port.