Computer system which maintains persistent firewall-compliant connections

摘要

A computer system comprises: a first computer network; a first computer subsystem comprising application software comprising machine readable instructions for generating a first network communication comprising data structured and arranged according to a first transport protocol; gateway software comprising machine readable instructions for converting at least a portion of the first network communication into the second network communication, with the second network communication being structured and arranged according to a second transport protocol, with the first transport protocol being different than the second transport protocol; a second-subsystem firewall and a second computer subsystem located behind the second-subsystem firewall, the second computer subsystem being remote from the first computer subsystem, and being structured to receive the second network communication from the first computer subsystem over the first computer network by a persistent connection across the second-subsystem firewall.