Patent ID: 7706358

Claim:
A machine enabling inbound communication from the outside toward the inside in IP application communication intended between an internal node concealed from an outside network and belonging to an inside network and an external node belonging to the outside network through a gateway device set to permit only outbound communication from the inside toward the outside, the machine comprising: at least one computer executing a program stored on a storage medium to provide: a unit periodically transmitting a control packet aiming at notifying of a control channel port and at maintaining a communication permission entry of a control channel path to a connection support device on the outside network from the internal node as the machine subordinated to the gateway device; a unit receiving notification of a connecting destination address/port pair associated with the external node via a maintained control channel from the connection support device; and a unit actively opening a data channel of an IP application to the notified connecting destination address/port pair; and wherein the periodically transmitting the control packet and the receiving the notification of the connecting destination address/port pair associated with the external node are asynchronously carried out, and the receiving is executed if the connection support device receives a connection request from the external node during periodical transmission of the control packet.