Patent ID: 7483405

Claim:
A method for supporting data transfers of a legacy application, the legacy application comprising a local peer in a local end-system at a first point in a network and a remote peer in a remote end-system at a different point in the network, the method comprising the steps of: in a local emulation module in the local end-system, receiving commands and data from the local peer; said local emulation module in response to said commands emulating with the local peer a negotiation of a wireless connection of the remote peer with the local peer; transferring said data between said local emulation module and a remote emulation module in said remote end system via at least one local emulation module to remote emulation module connection; said remote emulation module, in response to receiving said data, emulating with the remote peer a negotiation of a wireless connection of the local peer with the remote peer; and said remote emulation module relaying said data received from said local emulation module to the remote peer.