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

Claim 0:
1. A method of file transfer between a client and a server, comprising:
initiating, by the client, a front-end control connection between the client and a horizontally scaled proxy service;
creating, by a first proxy instance of a plurality of proxy instances of the horizontally scaled proxy service, a back-end control connection between the first proxy instance and the server;
returning, to the client from the first proxy instance, a unique client parameter associated with the front-end connection as a destination port for a front-end data connection;
initiating, by the client, 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
creating, by the first proxy instance, a back-end data connection between the first proxy instance and the server.