To provide a method for enabling a remote processor to communicate with a local processor through a computer network and a firewall.
The remote processor is connected to the local processor through a reverse proxy device, the computer network, the firewall and a proxy agent device. By dispatching a local request message to the proxy agent device, the local processor establishes a communication channel with the remote processor. The proxy agent device makes a response received from the local processor seem like a request and converts a response received from the firewall into a request. Similarly, the reverse proxy device converts a request received from the firewall into a response and makes a request received from the remote processor seem like a response.
CLOUGH JAMES
NELSON DEAN S
