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System and method for establishing secondary channels

  • US 7,426,271 B2
  • Filed: 04/25/2003
  • Issued: 09/16/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for establishing a secondary communication channel between at least two computing devices over a network medium, comprising:

  • connecting a first computing device with a first telephonic unit over a primary low-bandwidth channel, wherein said primary low-bandwidth channel is a location-limited channel with the following properties;

    human operators can control which devices are communicating with each other,transmission is physically limited,pre-authentication information is authentic,eavesdropping is possible, but information injection can be detected by communicating parties, andeavesdroppers on the location-limited channel are not able to create connections with the secondary communication channel;

    connecting a second computing device with a second telephonic unit;

    determining whether said first telephonic unit is in communication over said primary low-bandwidth channel with said second telephonic unit;

    transmitting a network address of said first computing device to said second computing device over said primary low-bandwidth channel, wherein the second computing device does not have knowledge of the first computing device'"'"'s network address prior to the transmission; and

    creating a one-to-one secondary communication channel between said second computing device and said first computing device through the Internet.

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