Patent ID: 8230079

Claim:
A method for establishing a low-latency communication channel to a host computer comprising: identifying, at a server, an open port of a first intermediary system between the host computer and the server, and a sequence number expected by the first intermediate system coupled between the host computer and server; opening, with the server, a first secondary communication channel from the server to the host computer, via the open port of the first intermediate system; communicating periodically, from the server to the host computer, via the first secondary communication channel through the open port of the first intermediate system, to maintain the first secondary communication channel through the open port of the first intermediate system from the server to the host computer; and transmitting the open port of the first intermediary system and the sequence number from the server to a second host computer to allow communication from the second host computer to the host computer through the first intermediate system using a low-latency communication channel established directly between the second host computer and the host computer, wherein the communication from the second host computer to the host computer is absent intervention from the server.