Patent ID: 11936754
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A file transfer system, comprising:
a client;
a router connected to the client through a network;
a plurality of proxy instances of a horizontally scaled proxy service connected to the router;
an application executing as a server connected to a first proxy instance of the plurality of proxy instances;
wherein:
the client initiates a front-end control connection between the client and the horizontally scaled proxy service;
the first proxy instance creates a back-end control connection between the first proxy instance and the server;
the first proxy instance returns to the client a unique client parameter associated with the front-end connection as a destination port for a front-end data connection;
the client initiates the front-end data connection between the client and the horizontally scaled proxy service, the front-end data connection using the destination port as returned by the first proxy instance; and
the first proxy instance creates a back-end data connection between the first proxy instance and the server.