Patent · US Expired

Method for the reconstitution of messages conveyed by one or more packet-switched transmission networks

US7447234B2 · kind B2 · utility

25Cited by
22References
16Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateMay 28, 2003
Grant dateNov 4, 2008
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 4, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W28/06
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

This method enables the reconstitution of messages fragmented in packets. It comprises a process for taking a census of the packets made available to a terminal (1) by transmission networks (Na, Nb) and a process for the reassembling of messages from packets listed by the census-taking process. These two processes implement a table of pointers pointing at the packets made available to the terminal (1) by the transmission networks (Na, Nb), sorted out by membership message, said pointers being placed, for each membership message, in a stack according to the order in which the packets that they point at are made available to the terminal (1) and being provided with information or status fields enabling the reporting of doubles or discrepancies between the order in which the packets of a stack are made available and the natural order of the message fragments constituted by the payloads of the packets, and the fate of the packet pointed at during the reassembling process.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.