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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2006
Wai Yim, San Jose, CA (US);
Wai Yim, San Jose, CA (US);
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method, which may be implemented by an apparatus and/or computer program(s), for a data relay server comprises receiving a request to relay data for a videoconference between a videoconference server protected by a firewall and N videoconference clients not protected by the firewall, wherein N≧1; creating a connection pool in response to the request to relay the data for the videoconference comprising accepting a plurality of first connections from the videoconference server; accepting a plurality of second connections from each of the N videoconference clients after creating the connection pool; associating each of the second connections from each of the N videoconference clients with a different one of the first connections in the connection pool; and relaying the data for the videoconference between the videoconference server and the N videoconference clients over the first and second connections.