| 摘要 |
A point-to-point Internet protocol exchanges Internet Protocol (IP) addresses between units to establish a point-to-point communication link between the processing units through the Internet. In accordance with the disclosed protocol, a method of locating a user process over a computer network, the user process having a dynamically assigned network protocol address comprises the steps of (a) maintaining in a computer memory a compilation of entries, each entry comprising a network protocol address of a user process connected to the computer network; and (b) in response to identification of one of the entries by a requesting user processor, providing the network protocol address of the identified entry to the requesting user process. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, a computer system having an audio transducer and a display device and being operatively coupled to other computers and a server over a computer network comprises (a) means for transmitting an E-mail signal containing a network protocol address of a first process to a second process over the computer network; (b) means for receiving a second network protocol address from the second process over the computer network; and (c) means, for responsive to the second network protocol address for establishing a communication link between the first process and the second process over the computer network. |
