Patent ID: 7827293
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A secure network resource access system for facilitating access by a network terminal across a communication network to a network resource located behind a firewall, the network terminal for providing application data for subsequent processing by the network resource, the secure network resource access system comprising: an authorization server configured to communicate with the network terminal over the communications network and to provide the network terminal with a resource name and an authorization password for the network resource, the authorization password for providing access to the network resource located behind the firewall; a proxy server located logically outside the firewall and configured to receive the application data and associated network resource data, the proxy server configured to store the received application data in a queue, the application data being associated with the network resource via the network resource data, the network resource data including the resource name of the network resource; a polling server located logically behind the firewall, the polling server configured to poll the proxy server to determine a status of the queue and to receive the application data and the associated network resource data across the firewall from the queue of the proxy server, the polling server to inhibit exposure to security breaches associated with firewall access ports; and an enterprise server configured to decrypt and decompress the application data to extract the authorization password, and transmit the application data to the network resource.