SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A WEB 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 network web proxy-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 proxy-server forwards the request to the mobile computing device by opening an indirect or virtual communications link between the web client, the network web proxy-server and the assigned address of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device repeatedly registers the current version of its address with the proxy-server. The mobile computing device, network web proxy-server and web client are commercially available, off-the-shelf components that require only targeted configuration changes to perform the disclosed intermediary forwarding operations.