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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2008
Wajih Yahyaoui, Redmond, WA (US);
Tony Bell, Redmond, WA (US);
Wajih Yahyaoui, Redmond, WA (US);
Tony Bell, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques to manage a relay server and a network address translator are described. A system may include a relay server having a first private network interface operative to communicate with a private client, a second private network interface operative to communicate with a network address translator, and an enhanced relay manager module operative to receive a message from the private client over the first private network interface or a remote client over the second private network interface and through the network address translator, the enhanced relay manager module further operative to retrieve a public transport address and a mapped port for the network address translator from a mapped address attribute stored by the relay server, and send a response to the message with the public transport address and the mapped port to the private client or the remote client. Other embodiments are described and claimed.