Patent ID: 7684406
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer network system comprising: a plurality of client hardware elements forming a computer network; a server network segment comprising a plurality of services, the server network segment associated with a single server system; and a router for interconnecting the computer network with the server network segment; the computer network being assigned at least one first access address range, and the server network segment being assigned at least one second access address range and at least one third access address range, wherein the at least one second access address range is an exclusive address range separate from the at least one first access address range and the at least one third access address range is a shared address range representing at least a sub-range of the at least one first access address range, each of the plurality of services being assigned one access address within the shared address range or the exclusive address range and the router being set up to route packets on the basis of respective addresses associated with packets being within the shared access address range and to block packets on the basis of respective addresses being from the exclusive address range, wherein the first access address range, the second access address range, the third access address range are private address ranges.