Patent ID: 8949369
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. In a server for facilitating remote access between one or more first computers and one or more second computers coupled to a network, a computer-implemented method comprising: receiving from one of the first computers a first internet protocol (IP) address corresponding to said one of the first computers; storing in the server the first IP address corresponding to said one of the first computers; receiving, by the server, a request from one of the second computers to establish remote access to said one of the first computers; and the server sending to said one of the second computers the stored first IP address corresponding to said one of the first computers responsive to the server receiving the request from said one of the second computers to establish remote access to said one of the first computers, said one of the second computers directly connecting to said one of the first computers identified by the first IP address and said one of the second computers sending a second IP address corresponding to said one of the second computers directly to said one of the first computers without the second IP address passing through the server and without the second IP address being stored by the server, the second IP address enabling said one of the first computers to directly exchange data with said one of the second computers, wherein the second IP address is not received by said one of the first computers prior to said one of the second computers directly connecting to said one of the first computers.