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Peer-to-peer connection establishment using TURN

US8588233B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Akamai Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

Martin Lohner · Endingen am Kaiserstuhl, DE
Brandon O. Williams · Revere, US

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 29, 2011
Grant date	Nov 19, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 11, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L2101/604
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A relay service enables two peers attempting to communicate with one another to each connect to a publicly-accessible relay server, which servers are associated with an overlay network and are selected by a directory service. After end-to-end connectivity is established, preferably the hosts communicate with each other by relaying data packets via the overlay network relay servers. Communications (both connection control messages and data being relayed) between a host and a relay server occurs at an application layer using a modified version of the TURN protocol.

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