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Method and system for communication between a management-server and remote host systems

  • US 10,225,142 B2
  • Filed: 06/30/2015
  • Issued: 03/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A logical communications bridge comprising:

  • a local proxy server that includes one or more processors, one or more memories, and a communications agent that exchanges messages with a management server through a first local area network and that exchanges messages through a wide area network with a remote proxy server;

    the remote proxy server that includes one or more processors, one or more memories, a communications agent that exchanges messages with one or more remote host systems through a second local area network and that exchanges messages through a wide area network with the local proxy server; and

    bridge adapters in the local proxy server and the remote proxy server that intercommunicate using a bridge protocol that compresses message contents with respect to the native-protocol encodings of the message contents and that each locally stores configuration data for the one or more remote host systems, the remote bridge adapter in the remote proxy server periodically, for each of the one or more remote host systemsobtaining configuration data for the remote host system,computing a configuration differential that encodes differences between the obtained configuration data for the remote host system and the configuration data locally stored by the remote bridge adapter for the remote host system, andtransmitting the configuration differential to the local proxy server, the local proxy server using the configuration differential to update the configuration data locally stored by the local proxy server for the remote host system.

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