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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2013
Whitfield Diffie, Woodside, CA (US);
Anatoli Bolotov, San Jose, CA (US);
Mikhail I. Grinchuk, San Jose, CA (US);
Ivan Danov, Sofia, BG;
Anton Sabev, San Jose, CA (US);
Whitfield Diffie, Woodside, CA (US);
Anatoli Bolotov, San Jose, CA (US);
Mikhail I. Grinchuk, San Jose, CA (US);
Ivan Danov, Sofia, BG;
Anton Sabev, San Jose, CA (US);
Bit Action, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses and methods are described for facilitating connection between two or more clients across a network that includes network address translators (NATs). In a particular implementation, the techniques include peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic processing and network address translator (NAT) traversal. Low cost data traffic processing techniques with minimal server intervention are disclosed. The techniques can establish direct connections between clients located in private networks behind NATs. In the case where the clients are each behind a symmetric NAT, the connection can be established indirectly via a non-symmetric NAT (used as a relay) which establishes connection with both symmetric NATs using the disclosed direct connection techniques.