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Patent Title: Method of establishing a session between terminals on a network, remote terminal and recording medium

Assignee: IBM
Patent Number: US6249811
Issue Date: 06-19-2001
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File Date:03-18-1998


Abstract: The present invention establishes a TCP/IP session between terminals which connect to a network on-demand by a dial up PPP. This is achieved by connecting from a local terminal X to a local connection point A of the network by a dial up PPP, calling a remote terminal Y from a secondary server C on the network based on information from the local terminal X and sending a FAX message containing an IP address of the local terminal X, and connecting the remote terminal Y to the network by a dial up PPP by a daemon on the remote terminal Y which is started based on the transmitted FAX message to send the IP address of the remote terminal to the local terminal.

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