Patent ID: 7039708

Claim:
A method for establishing communications between a first client computer and a server computer via a network, including the steps of: sending to the server computer from a second client computer remote from the first client computer a request for invocation of a communications controller component, wherein the server is remote from the first client computer; in response to receipt of the request at the server computer, invoking the communications controller component at the server computer to generate and send a message from the server computer to the first client computer, the message including an identification of the communications controller component, wherein the message sent from the server computer to the first client computer is a SMS message generated by the communications controller component, said SMS message being sent to the first client computer via a GSM telephone connected to the first client computer, and wherein the SMS message is sent without establishing a two way telephone connection; in response to receipt of the message at the first client computer, sending a request from the first client computer to the communications controller component at the server computer, thereby to establish communications between the first client computer and the server computer, wherein the request from the first client computer to the communications controller component at the server computer uses Internet protocols to establish communications between the first client computer and the server computer.