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Remote computer communication

  • US 6,081,508 A
  • Filed: 02/25/1998
  • Issued: 06/27/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/25/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Software stored on a computer readable medium for causing a remote computer to perform the functions of:

  • accepting a dialing database, including telephone access numbers;

    accepting an identification of a computing resource; and

    establishing a data communication path to the computing resource includingdetermining a plurality of access paths for communicating between the remote computer and the computing resource, including retrieving information related to the identified computing resource from the dialing database,determining a cost for each of said plurality of access paths, including evaluating a cost function for each of said plurality of access paths,selecting a first of the access paths based on the cost for each of the access paths, andinitiating establishment of communication over the selected first of the access paths.

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