System having generalized client-server computing

• US 7,603,410 B1
• Filed: 10/13/2005
• Issued: 10/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bampton Technologies, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chang, Li Fung, Luo, Hui
• Primary Examiner(s): DENNISON, JERRY B
• Application Number:
  US11/249,549
• Time in Patent Office: 1,461 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-253, 710 1- 74, 710/164, 719311-332, 717/171, 717/172, 717/176
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams

Abstract

A protocol provides generalized client-server computing by providing a server program that can utilize standard and non-standard ports for applications.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable code implementing client-side functions of a generalized client-server protocol for:

sending an IP address query message to a DNS server using a hostname for a server;

receiving an IP address for the server from the DNS server;

sending a service request message to the server, the service request message including an installation module that is used for installing on the server a server program separately supplied by a client at a standard or nonstandard TCP port for the generalized client-server protocol;

receiving a response message from the server indicating a port number for receipt of a server program;

sending the server program to the indicated port number to be installed on the server with the installation module; and

starting client-server computing using the server IP address and the received port number as the destination network address of the server program.