Patent ID: 9185155
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: interconnecting a first interface of a switch with a broadband modem within a wide area network (WAN); interconnecting a second interface of the switch with a WAN interface of a router, wherein the router provides a gateway between the WAN and a local area network (LAN); interconnecting a third interface of the switch with the LAN; obtaining a private LAN address for the switch; providing a web server at the switch, the web server reachable to the WAN on the first interface and to the LAN on the second interface; inspecting traffic received at the first and second interfaces; determining, based on the inspecting, whether to transparently forward the traffic between the first and second interfaces or to redirect the traffic to the web server; obtaining one or more files from a remote WAN-based server at the web server; and providing local access to the one or more files from the web server to a device within the LAN, wherein the web server is accessible by a user from both inside the LAN and outside the LAN, and wherein the switch resides logically on a WAN side of the router.