Patent ID: 7631352

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for locating and sharing information between computers in a computer network where the IP address of a central server is fixed, but the IP address of two or more connecting computers is subject to change, comprising steps of; having a first computer within said computer network send a notification via e-mail to a second computer within said computer network, using known e-mail addresses, said e-mail containing the L2F data packet for the file within said first computer; having a second computer within said computer network receive said e-mail with the L2F data packet, read from the MIME header within said e-mail the IP address for said first computer, and using a combination of said first computer IP address and the L2F data packet information, establish a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection between said first and second computer; and; beginning a P2P data exchange process of one or more files identified in the L2F data packet between said first and said second.