Patent ID: 7177911

Claim:
A system for enabling computers associated with a communications network to remotely locate each other and establish a master-slave relationship comprising: a first computer having a first MAC address associated therewith; a second computer having a second MAC address associated therewith and the first computer and second computer part of the communications network; and a third computer, remotely situated from outside a subnet communication network including the first and second computers, having knowledge of the first MAC address and the second MAC address and sending a first message having the first MAC address and a unique identifier to the second computer and a second message having the second MAC and the unique identifier address to the first computer over the communications network; wherein, subsequent to the first and second messages from the third computer, the first computer broadcasts a third message having the first MAC address and the unique identifier over the communications network and in response to the third message the second computer establishes a connected socket between the second computer and the first computer.