Patent ID: 7385621

Claim:
A method of privately sharing served resources between first and second computers connected to an internetwork for exchanging network packets therebetween, wherein said served resources reside in said first computer, and wherein each of said computers has a respective private IP address within said internetwork, said method comprising the steps of: maintaining a central server coupled to said internetwork and containing a database of IP addresses of registered computers; running call clients in each of said first and second computers for establishing a data call between said first and second computers in response to said database of IP addresses; generating within said first or second computer a request for sharing said served resources; running a server application in said first computer for hosting said served resources; and running client applications in said first and second computers for retrieving said served resources from said server application simultaneously; wherein said server application and said client application running in said second computer exchange network packets in response to said IP addresses used by said call clients.