System and method using a client-local proxy-server to access 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 client-local proxy-server has an IP address to 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 client-local proxy-server acts as an intermediary opening up a communications path between the web client and the assigned address of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device repeatedly registers the current version of its address with the client-local proxy-server. The mobile computing device and proxy-server software require only targeted configuration changes to perform the disclosed intermediary 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 client-local proxy-server a request to access the device; said request comprising a device identifier 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, said proxy-server acting as an intermediary to establish a data path between a sender of said request and said device, based on said stored address.