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Aol Inc.

America Online, Inc.

Aol, LLC, a Delaware Corporation

Richard A Watson, Jr

Richard Rodriguez-Val

Systems and methods for transferring electronic data comprising receiving a request to access a communications system at a first geographic location from a client located at a second geographic location remote from the first geographic location; identifying a proxy local to the client in the second geographic location; and receiving subsequent data requests from the client at the proxy.

Enabling communications of electronic data between an information requestor and a geographically proximate service provider

Enabling a host system to communicate with and to identify at least one client device that communicates with the host system through a network address translator device includes enabling communications from a first client device through the network address translator device. A data packet is received that includes a payload portion and an attribute portion, where the attribute portion includes a destination address that indicates a destination for the data packet and a nearest source address. A portion of the received data packet other than the nearest source address is examined for a host-assigned identifier that identifies a client device that communicated the received data packet. The received data packet typically is processed in accordance with predetermined host system controls accessible to the host system for the first client device identified, such as host-enabled parental controls.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Richard A Watson, Jr