Patent ID: 7818435
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing information from a network including a network device to a client device outside of the network via a server associated with the network, said method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a request from the client device at the server for a first electronic content from said network; (b) retrieving, by the server, said first electronic content from said network; (c) identifying, by the server, a link within said first electronic content; (d) determining, by the server, whether said link identified in said step (c) is resolvable by an external Internet domain name system or alternatively by a domain name system internal to said network; (e) wrapping, by the server, said link to obtain a wrapped version of said link that identifies a resolvable address on the network in the event it is determined in said step (d) that said link is resolvable by the domain name system internal to said network, and not wrapping said link in the event it is determined in said step (d) that said link is resolvable by the external Internet domain name system, wherein said wrapped version provides remote access to respective content within the network that is otherwise unattainable by the client device outside the network; (f) delivering a modified version of said first electronic content to the client device, wherein said modified version of said first electronic content includes said wrapped version of said link; and (g) delivering an original version of said first electronic content to said client device if said link is not wrapped in said step (e), wherein said original version is said first electronic content that is unmodified.