Patent ID: 7640298

Claim:
An information processing system, comprising: a first computing device configured to: receive, from a second computing device via a first local-area network connecting at least the first computing device and the second computing device, a first information packet, the second computing device configured to transmit the first information packet in response to receiving a request packet from a client, the request packet received by the second computing device via a global computer network, a first router, and a second local-area network; and output a second information packet to the client via the global computer network and the second local-area network, such that the second information packet bypasses the second computing device but appears to the client to have originated from the second computing device; wherein the second local-area network is configured to: bypass the first local-area network; connect at least the first router to the second computing device; and connect the first computing device to the global computer network, and wherein the first information packet includes at least the request packet and a reference to a data structure representative of a connection with the client, the data structure including at least an address of the first computing device, an address of the second computing device, and an address of the client.