Patent ID: 6785724
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A system for accessing a remote device, comprising:a server with a static IP (Internet Protocol) address accessible on the public Internet, to manage requests to access information of the remote device the server including: an application to manage client browser requests to connect to the remote device by sending a wake-up request to an on-demand device by making a phone call to a phone number provided by a client the number corresponding to a line connected to the on-demand device and receiving an assigned dynamic IP address of the on-demand device after upon receipt of a connection complete from the on-demand device and forwarding the dynamically assigned IP address to a web browser via an embedded HTML redirect tag; an on-demand device that dials into a local ISP to connect to the Internet after receiving the wake-up request from the server with the static IP address and which receives the dynamic IP address from the local ISP, the on-demand device monitoring and providing information about the remote device, said on-demand device located remotely from the server with the static IP; and a client device for transmitting authentication information to the server with the static IP address, and the client device executing the web browser application to transmit to the server the telephone number through which the server establishes communication with the on-demand device to initiate requests to access the on-demand device and receive the embedded HTML redirect tag from the application on the server to redirect the client device to the dynamic address of the on-demand device.