Link2File automated computer location and linking system

• US 7,631,352 B1
• Filed: 06/14/2006
• Issued: 12/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daniel John Nelson, Luis Alberto Figarella
• Original Assignee: Daniel John Nelson, Luis Alberto Figarella
• Inventors: Nelson, Daniel John, Figarella, Luis Alberto
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, SHIN HON
• Application Number:
  US11/309,057
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 726/15, 709/220, 709/223, 709/203, 709/231, 709/242
• US Class Current: 726/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4547 for personal communications, i.e. using a personal identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks

Abstract

Link2File, A method to allow computers connected to the Internet to find each other, identify specific files, video and/or audio channels within them and automatically initiate actions (such as peer-to-peer file transfers or video feeds), even when their Internet Protocol (IP) address is reassigned at random by a third-party.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for locating and sharing information between computers in a computer network where the IP address of a central server is fixed, but the IP address of two or more connecting computers is subject to change, comprising steps of;

having a first computer within said computer network send a notification via e-mail to a second computer within said computer network, using known e-mail addresses, said e-mail containing the L2F data packet for the file within said first computer;

having a second computer within said computer network receive said e-mail with the L2F data packet, read from the MIME header within said e-mail the IP address for said first computer, and using a combination of said first computer IP address and the L2F data packet information, establish a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection between said first and second computer; and

;

beginning a P2P data exchange process of one or more files identified in the L2F data packet between said first and said second.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein;

the data exchange leads to the establishment of an audio channel between the computers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein;

the data exchange leads to the establishment of an audio/video/data link between the computers.