British Inventors Develop Secure Access Through Network Firewalls Providing Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Stephen J. Hinde of Redland, Great Britain, Lawrence Wilcock of Malmesbury, Great Britain, and Colin Low of Wooton-Under-Edge, Great Britain, have developed a method of providing secure access through network firewalls.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable controlled, secure connections using a versatile protocol such as transaction control protocol/Internet protocol to be established through a firewall and proxy server, the versatile protocol is tunnelled using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Client to server communications are effected using an HTTP POST operation. Server to client communications are effected using an HTTP GET operation to establish a tunnelled socket; this socket is closed within an interval less than any timeout imposed by the proxy server and immediately re-established by another GET operation, irrespective of whether data continue to be pending for communication to the client. A globally-unique identity is included in each POST and GET message to enable related messages to be recognized."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,359,978 on April 15.

The patent has been assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP, Houston.

The original application was filed on Feb. 21, 2006, and is available at: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,359,978.PN.&OS=PN/7,359,978&RS=PN/7,359,978.

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