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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2018
Kddi Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
KDDI CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication device includes: a forwarding unit configured to determine, if a first packet is directed to the communication device, whether or not a forwarding destination address of the first packet can be specified based on a value contained in a first field of the first packet, the forwarding unit setting, if it can be specified, the specified forwarding destination address as the destination address of the first packet and forwarding the first packet; and a processing unit configured to perform, if no forwarding destination address of the first packet can be specified and the first packet includes a request packet that requests an object according to an object name of the object, processing for specifying the forwarding destination of the first request packet based on the object name.