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Packet transfer apparatus connectable with mobile terminals

US7339931B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 3, 2003
Grant dateMar 4, 2008
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Expiry dateDec 7, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L12/185
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A packet transfer apparatus connected to an internal subnetwork formed by a set of broadcast segments each accommodating terminals and for transferring, when a MAC frame including a IP address which designates a destination terminal connected to one of the segments is received from a terminal connected to another segment in the internal subnetwork, an IP packet in the MAC frame to the segment connected to the destination terminal in accordance with a terminal management table which indicates a relation of address information of each of the terminals belonging to the internal subnetwork and the segment to which the terminal is connected.

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