Abstract: An image-data acquisition and display system coupled to a network provides a first specified data to an interactive control server system to be accessed by a user for acquiring a second specified data based on the first specified data, and receives third specified data from the ICSS, includes: identifying information associated with the system; a server for coupling to the network for transmitting the identifying information to the ICSS via the network; and a tunnel client coupled to the network to establish, based on the identifying information, a communications tunnel through a firewall to exchange data wait the ICSS via the tunnel, to allow data/commands to be received by and transmitted from the system through the firewall to the ICSS over the network. The firewall allows the third specified data to be received by the system though the tunnel and prevents data/commands from being received by the system.

Abstract: A data and image transmission system includes at least one interactive control server system, coupled to a communications network, to which a user may connect for interactive communication to at least one remote image-data acquisition system located behind a communications security firewall. The image-data acquisition system includes a tunnel client, and the interactive control server system includes a active connection to enable the interactive control server system and the image-data acquisition system to transmit and receive communications through the firewall. A set of rules and the operational specifications of the image-data acquisition system, operable on the interactive control server system, determine how the data from the image-data acquisition system is provided to the interactive control server system.

Abstract: A data and image transmission system includes at least one interactive control server system, coupled to a communications network, to which a user may connect for interactive communication to at least one remote image-data acquisition system located behind a communications security firewall. The image-data acquisition system includes a tunnel client, and the interactive control server system includes a active connection to enable the interactive control server system and the image-data acquisition system to transmit and receive communications through the firewall. A set of rules and the operational specifications of the image-data acquisition system, operable on the interactive control server system, determine how the data from the image-data acquisition system is provided to the interactive control server system.