Signiant Inc.

Ken Bowler

Ian Kennedy Hamilton

Winston Khan

A system and method are provided for establishing multiple parallel connections between a client and a server on a single server port. Data may be transferred on the multiple parallel connections between the server and the client through an opening in a network firewall that corresponds to the single server port. A control process may accept N connection requests from a client then transfer each accepted connection to a relay process that manages that connection. Each relay process may relay data between the server and the client via the single server port. A single collective data transfer may be executed on the N parallel connections, thereby increasing throughput and data transfer rates. If the data transfer rate is primarily limited by network latency, using N parallel connections provides the advantage of increasing the data transfer rate by approximately a factor of N.

System and method for transferring data in high latency firewalled networks

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing security using an authorization process in connection with data transfers. Keyed certificates are used to authenticate remote computers. An authorization table maps remote computers to allowable local users and corresponding qualifiers. In order to complete a data transfer process, the system of the present invention authenticates the remote computer, determines its authority to act as a designated local user, and determines whether the remote computer, acting as the designated local user, can perform the actions required for the data transfer.

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Manotick, Canada

Ken Bowler