System and method for accessing a device having an assigned network address

摘要

A communications system includes a mobile computing device having a dynamic address and mobile web server software. A network web server has a portal web page at which a web client can reliably and consistently establish an internet connection. In response to receiving a request from the web client to access the mobile computing device, the network web server re-routes the web client from a static address of the network web server to the assigned address of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device repeatedly registers the current version of its address with the network web server. The mobile computing device, network web server and web client are commercially available, off-the-shelf components that require only targeted configuration changes to perform the disclosed re-routing operations.

主权项

1. A method of accessing a device having an assigned address, comprising:
storing the assigned address in a memory location; receiving at a portal web page a request to access the device, wherein the request to access the device is based on authorization data received from a user at the portal web page; said request comprising a device identifier, received via the portal web page, that uniquely identifies the device; and in response to said request to access the device, identifying the device's stored address based on said device identifier, and re-routing a sender of said request from said portal to said stored address.