US 8,782,773 B2Granted

Framework for communicating across a firewall

AssigneeAvaya Inc.

InventorsWu Chou, Lookman Yasin Fazal, Weiping Guo, Feng Liu, Zhi Qiang Zhao

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Abstract

A system for enabling communication between a first domain and a second domain is disclosed. At least the first domain is protected by a firewall. A first data-processing system is provided in the first domain and a second data-processing system provided in second domain. The second domain hosts an application that the first domain desires to access. To enable the communication between the two domains a tunnel is established through the firewall. The tunnel runs from the first data-processing system to the second data-processing system. The second data-processing system provides a web-proxy interface to interface to the application and also acts as a tunnel gateway.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

establishing a tunnel from a first data-processing system in a first domain through a firewall to a second data-processing system in a second domain, wherein the second data-processing system is configured to provide a web-proxy interface to a plurality of applications hosted in the second domain by use of the tunnel;
transmitting a set of configuration credentials from the first data-processing system in the first domain to the second domain;
and
receiving, at the first data-processing system, a signal from an application of the plurality of applications via the second data-processing system and the tunnel, wherein the second data-processing system authenticates the signal according to the set of configuration credentials, and wherein the application generates the signal according to the set of configuration credentials to enable the first data-processing system to route the signal to the correct destination in the first domain.

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