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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 20, 2014
Applicants:

Allied Telesis Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Allied Telesis, Inc., Bothell, WA (US);

Inventor:

Theuns Willem Verwoerd, Christchurch, NZ;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/2514 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/10 (2013.01); H04L 61/106 (2013.01); H04L 61/25 (2013.01); H04L 61/2535 (2013.01); H04L 61/6068 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, apparatus and methods described herein are configured to allow use of network addresses in an internal or private network that are outside of private address ranges as specified by communication protocols (e.g., IPv4). In some embodiments, the systems, apparatus and methods described herein are further configured for use of placeholder addresses to facilitate communication with external computing devices that may have network addresses that overlap the local address space.


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