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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joe Abuan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Berkat Tung, Sacramento, CA (US);
Hyeonkuk Jeong, San Jose, CA (US);
Joshua Graessley, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 29/125 (2013.01); H04L 29/12566 (2013.01); H04L 61/2564 (2013.01); H04L 61/2589 (2013.01); H04L 67/104 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods for establishing a direct peer-to-peer ('P2P') connection between two computers are disclosed. In particular, the methods are designed to work in cases where one or both of the computers are connected to a private network, such private networks being interconnected via a public network, such as the Internet. The connections between the private network and the public network are facilitated by network address translation ('NAT').