Patent ID: 9282103
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of granting a client device remote access to a media server, comprising: receiving a port request from a remote client device at a residential gateway through an intermediate remote access control server over a wide area network, said residential gateway operating a local area network to which a media server is connected; opening one or more wide area network ports temporarily mapped to local area network ports, such that said remote client device can communicate with said media server through said wide area network ports; transmitting a list of said one or more wide area network ports to said remote client device through said intermediate remote access control server; receiving a media content request from said remote client device and passing said media content request to said media server through said one or more wide area network ports; and passing media content from said media server to said remote client device through said one or more wide area network ports in response to said media content request, wherein said media server uses one or more restriction lists each comprising one or more parameters indicating remote access permissions by channel to determine whether to send said media content to said remote client device and wherein use of the restriction lists avoids use of security authentication to enable access through said one or more wide area network ports.