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Patent No.:

US 12301446 B1

Date of Patent:

May. 13, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 26, 2019

Communication device, communication system, communication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing communication program

Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Go Fujimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Andre Tacdiran

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04W 80/02 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);

Abstract

A communication device () includes a wireless LAN interface () that wirelessly communicates with an access point (), a wireless LAN interface () that wirelessly communicates with an access point (), an encapsulation unit () that encapsulates, in accordance with a specified encapsulation protocol, a transmission frame to be transmitted to a communication device () at the other side via Layer 2 tunneling, and a redundancy unit () that generates a first encapsulated frame where a MAC address of the wireless LAN interface () is set to a source MAC address and a second encapsulated frame where a MAC address of the wireless LAN interface () is set to a source MAC address by using the encapsulated transmission frame.

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