METHOD AND RELATED SYSTEM FOR BUILDING UP A NETWORK CONNECTION BETWEEN CLIENTS AND SERVERS THROUGH A STREAM FORK BY UTILIZING HTTP PROTOCOL

• US 20080301305A1
• Filed: 09/16/2007
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: Huang, Shih-Yung
• Application Number:
  US11/856,053
• Publication Number:
  US 20080301305A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/029 Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A method for building up a network connection between a client and a server through a stream fork by utilizing HTTP protocol includes receiving a connection request of the client, transmitting the connection request to the server, building up a connection channel between the client and the server and setting a channel ID of the client, and transmitting the channel ID to the client.

Claims

1. A method for building up a network connection between a client and a server, the method comprising:

receiving a connection request of the client;

transmitting the connection request to the server;

building up a connection channel between the client and the server and setting a channel ID of the client; and

transmitting the channel ID to the client.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

when transmitting the channel ID to the client, simultaneously transmitting an HTTP response for completing building up the connection channel and the channel ID to the client.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request for building up a writing channel transmitted by the client; and

transmitting a request for building up a reading channel to the stream fork.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving the connection request of the client comprises receiving a Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP) request of the client.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

transmitting a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection request to the server; and

receiving an acceptance or a rejection of the TCP connection request of the server.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

responding with a connection error to the client when receiving the rejection of the TCP connection request of the server.

7. A system for connecting to a Local Area Network (LAN) through an Internet by utilizing Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP), the system comprising:

a client;

a server utilized for providing services for transmitting data; and

a stream fork, for connecting to the client through the Internet and for connecting to the server through the LAN;

wherein the server and the stream fork connect to each other through the LAN, and the client connects to the stream fork through the Internet;

wherein the stream fork utilizes Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol to respectively connect to the client and to the server and transmits a channel ID to the client when the client connects to the stream fork through HTTP protocol and transmits a connection request.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein:

the client is further used for transmitting an HTTP request to the stream fork; and

the stream fork is further used for transmitting a TCP connection request to the server.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the client is further used for:

transmitting a request for building up a writing channel to the stream fork; and

transmitting a request for building up a reading channel to the stream fork.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein:

the stream fork is further used for transmitting to the server the request for building up the writing channel transmitted from the client; and

the server is further used for transmitting a response to the stream fork.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the stream fork is further used for transmitting an HTTP response to the client.