Patent ID: 7788410
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A communications system comprising: an application server; a plurality of communications devices within a protected network including at least one first communications device processing requests using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client application with said application server; and an HTTP server for interfacing said HTTP client application with said application server; said HTTP server and said HTTP client application formatting requests to be communicated therebetween in an HTTP format, and each providing additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests for authenticating said application server and said HTTP client application to one another; said HTTP client application accepting work jobs from said application server by sending a first request to a first universal resource locator (URL) associated with said HTTP server, and responding to the work jobs from said application server by sending a second request with results for the work jobs to a second URL different from the first URL and also associated with said HTTP server; said at least one first communications device also functioning as a gateway for said application server to communicate with at least one second communications device of said plurality of communications devices.