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Abstract

The invention enables a tunneling action that allows a remote processor to communicate with a local processor when the remote processor is coupled to the local processor via a reverse proxy device, a computer network, a firewall and a proxy agent device. Initially, the local processor establishes a communication channel with the remote processor by dispatching a local request message to the proxy agent device. The proxy agent device dispatches the local request message via the firewall and network to the reverse proxy device, thus enabling the firewall to receive a remote response message to the local request message. Thereafter, the remote processor issues a remote request message to the reverse proxy device, which in turn dispatches a remote response message with the remote request message contained therein, to the firewall. Upon receipt by the proxy agent device of the remote response message (via the firewall), the proxy agent device extracts and dispatches the remote request message to the local processor. Dispatch of a local response message by the local processor causes the proxy agent to incorporate the local response message into a local request message and to dispatch the local request message to the remote processor via the firewall and the reverse proxy device.

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First Claim