Patent ID: 7631031

Claim:
A data communication system configured to communicatively link computing devices with a point-to-point data communication link, the data communication system comprising: a computing system including at least a memory and a processor configured to implement multipoint network data communication components designed for data communication over a distributed network, the multipoint network data communication components being implemented for point-to-point data communication comprising: a Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) component implemented in a host device and configured to communicate Remote NDIS messages to a remote client device; a Remote NDIS driver of the host device that is implemented in the remote client device and configured to receive the Remote NDIS messages from the Remote NDIS component in the host device, the Remote NDIS driver that is implemented in the remote client device further configured to communicate the Remote NDIS messages to a virtual driver component via a virtual local network implemented in the remote client device; and a connection interface configured to couple the Remote NDIS component of the multipoint network data communication components with the remote computing device for the point-to-point data communication of the Remote NDIS messages to the remote computing device.