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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2008
Phillip M. Walker, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Fred Charles Thomas, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Greg J. Lipinski, Loveland, CO (US);
Phillip M. Walker, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Fred Charles Thomas, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Greg J. Lipinski, Loveland, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In one example a method is provided. The method includes (i) discovering, by a gateway router, a server in a local area network, wherein the gateway router discovers the server by sending a universal plug and play (UPnP) message identifying the gateway router as a gateway router with access configurable by the server; (ii) receiving, by the gateway router, a response from the server, wherein the response identifies the server as a server that desires to establish external access; (iii) determining, by the gateway router, whether the server is a trustworthy server, wherein determining comprises comparing information received by the server with a stored list of trustworthy servers; (iv) configuring, by the gateway router, a logical port to forward incoming connection requests to the server; and (v) forwarding, by the gateway router, incoming connection requests to the server.