Patent ID: 6959393

Claim:
A method for secure message-oriented communications between nodes in a network, comprising the steps of: deploying at least one key authority within the network; deploying a plurality of rendezvous peers in the network having a plurality of nodes and associating a group of the plurality of network nodes with each rendezvous peer; validating connecting rights of each rendezvous peer and the network nodes by the at least one key authority using public-private key pairs, uniform resource identifiers, IP addresses and lists of rendezvous peers stored within the at least one key authority; controlling network node access to the network by each rendezvous peer associated with a controlled group of network nodes; establishing an open pull protocol connection between each requesting node of the network and a single rendezvous peer by providing the at least one key authority of each requesting node for validation of connection rights; and exchanging secure message-oriented communications between the validated nodes of the network via message channels on the rendezvous peers using public key infrastructure techniques facilitated by the at least one key authority.