SECURE REMOTE ACCESS BETWEEN PEERS

摘要

A system for accessing data from any location and any device including those behind firewalls, proxy servers, address translations and other devices (11), while securing the data and network. The access may be by voice or wireless connection and the data may be PIM data such as calendaring or scheduling information or email. The system employs a secure peer network between data sources regardless of their location enabling data access devices to retrieve or submit data from any Internet enabled device from any location. Messages are tunneled to HTML that passes through firewalls. A Queue Manager in the EPN Server software creates a unique queue for data source which can only be accessed by the data source. The user (3) with a browser enabled device can then access the EPN Server (7) by providing the necessary credentials, such as user id and password, and can then access the data in the data sources for which the user is permitted. The data source maintains a nonpersistent connection through a polling algorithm and services the request in the queue.