Patent ID: 8972483
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying and connecting clients connected to the same network comprising several control servers, comprising the steps of connecting a first client running a web browser application to one of the several control servers, wherein the control server connected to the first client registers client specific connection information associated with the first client, receiving from the web browser application a request for a unique URI defined by one of the control servers and associated with a second client, requesting a control server connected to the second client to mediate a connection to the second client associated with the unique URI, receiving connection information associated with the second client, establishing a direct connection to the second client by using the connection information associated with the second client, which connection establishment is mediated by the control server connected to the second client, receiving data from the second client on the direct connection and forwarding the data to the web browser application for displaying the received data in a graphical user interface, the steps are carried out by a plug-in installed in said web browser application, which plug-in communicates with the control server connected to the first client and the control server connected to the second client, the URI assigned to the second client by the control server connected to the second client is a URL that can be resolved using the infrastructure of the domain name system, the second client comprises a web server to which incoming requests from the first client are directed, and the second client asks the existing domain name system infrastructure to resolve the IP address of the client's own unique URL assigned and defined by the control server connected to the second client in order to obtain the IP address of the second client's control server.