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Communications system usable as system for simulating a plurality of other communications systems and communication processing system having such communications system

US6119168A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 31, 1996
Grant dateSep 12, 2000
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Expiry dateOct 31, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/22
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a communication processing system, a message provided with an originating address and a destination address is transmitted via a network from a communications system identified by the originating address to a communications system identified by the destination address. When a message is received, an address defined as the destination address for the message received by the communications system and a receiving address indicated by a management unit are respectively replaced with an address defined as a new originating address and an address defined as a new destination address so that the communications system recognizes that the message is transmitted from a communications system identified by the address defined as the new originating address and the message should be received by the communications system identified by the address defined as the new destination address. When a message is transmitted, an address originally defined as the destination address for the message to be transmitted and a transmitting address indicated by the management unit are respectively replaced with an address defined as a new originating address and an address defined as a new destination address…

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