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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard H Fox, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brett D Galloway, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Metricom, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370402 ;
Abstract
In a local network connected to other networks which employ an Internet Protocol, and wherein the local network includes nodes which cannot monitor all other nodes in the local network, an Internet Protocol address of a target node in the local network is translated at a gateway node in the local network to a network-specific local address of the target node without the use of broadcasting. The network specific local address of the target node is the address which is usable within the local network for forwarding a packet to the target node.