Qualcomm Incorporated

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

Poonam Mishra

Chaitanya Pratapa

Rohit Tripathi

Mohit Pahuja

Systems, methods, and apparatus are herein disclosed for enabling direct communication between two IRC clients without the use of an IRC server once the connection is established. In one instance this can involve a gateway electing to not mangle or not perform NAT on a private IP address of a sending client as a DCC request is passed to the IRC server. In another instance this can involve a gateway mangling or performing NAT on a sender public IP address of a DCC request after it has been passed to the IRC server and returned to the gateway. The clients can be SoftAP clients. The gateway can determine when to mangle and when not to mangle IP addresses using a database that include identifiers of IRC clients on a subnet along with respective IRC servers for those IRC clients.

Direct client-to-client internet relay chat for softap clients

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for using a NATTYPE module in a Linux kernel to carry out Full Cone NAT and address-restricted cone NAT while offloading NAT functionality to a hardware accelerator. The NATTYPE module can be configured to create a mapping between conntrack entries and NATTYPE entries and a conntrack module can be configured to update a NATTYPE entry when a conntrack entry is updated and the conntrack entry includes a mapping to a NATTYPE entry. Alternatively, a hardware accelerator controller can be configured to refresh conntrack entries as well as NATTYPE entries.

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Hyderabad Telangana, India

Poonam Mishra