Patent attributes
Computer peers located behind respective firewalls create special network sessions with a central mediator/translator or socket welder so that the peers can run applications that utilize the transmission of unsolicited data packets to each other through their respective firewalls. For example, two home networking users can dynamically connect to each other for the purpose of exchanging real-time data or communications, or a mobile enterprise user can access, in real-time, firewalled computing resources while the mobile user is outside of the firewalled enterprise environment. The firewall is maintained unaltered for continued protection from unauthorized network traffic while achieving an inexpensive and very secure system for splicing together multiple, firewall-compliant network sessions via the socket welder.
