Patent ID: 8204027
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for administering requests for data communications connections in a wide area network that includes a plurality of networks, the method comprising: receiving, according to a data communications protocol, by a receiver from a sender, a request for a data communications connection, wherein the sender has a network address on a sender's network, the receiver has a network address on a receiver's network, and the receiver has a receiver port having a state; characterizing the sender as local with respect to the receiver's network if the sender's network is the receiver's network; characterizing the sender as remote with respect to the receiver's network if the sender's network is not the receiver's network; setting a value of a location response flag by an application program's subroutine call through an application programming interface for the data communications protocol; and responding to the request in dependence upon: