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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2003
Chia-hsin LI, San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Nelson, San Jose, CA (US);
Wai Yim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication protocol stack for enabling multimedia communication between communicating devices where multiple port communication data is tunneled through a single TCP port is provided. The communication protocol stack includes, at an application level, the capability to identify whether received communication data is for a communication port. If the received communication data is for the communication port, then the communication protocol stack includes the ability to forward identification data regarding the received communication data to a table in advance of forwarding the received communication data to a driver level of the communication protocol stack. A method, computer readable medium, and a system for tunneling port traffic through a single HTTP port are also provided.