Patent ID: 8701180

Claim:
A method of communicating a protocol request at a network zone, the method comprising: receiving the protocol request from a computing device; encapsulating the protocol request in a different protocol; transmitting the encapsulated protocol request to a different network zone by way of the different protocol over a first communication channel; closing the first communication channel after transmitting the encapsulated protocol request; opening a second communication channel with the different network zone; checking by the network zone, a shared disk file system shared between the network zone and the different network zone for a message from the different network zone by way of the different protocol over the second communication channel; accessing tail the message, the message including a protocol response to the protocol request; extracting the protocol response from the message; and transmitting the extracted protocol response to the computing device, wherein the transmitting of the protocol request includes writing the protocol request to the shared disk file system by way of the different protocol, and wherein the accessing of the message from the different network zone includes reading the message from the shared disk file system by way of the different protocol.