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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Aravind Sitaraman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Houshang Nayeb Hosseini, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Jie Chu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Leslie Alan Thomas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shujin Zhang, San Mateo, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network access point for locally processing an access request is configured to include an information bus, an access event publisher, and at least one local cache having at least one user record. The access event publisher publishes at least one network access event on the information bus during the processing of the access request. The first local cache is coupled to and is responsive to the network access event by updating the user record according to information contained by the network access event if the information includes a home access point ID that corresponds to the first local cache. The network access point may be part of a communications system having a mother cache. The mother cache is coupled to the first local cache and includes user records of subscribers supported by the communications system. The first local cache obtains a user record associated with one of the subscribers from the mother cache, if the user record is not stored in the first local cache, in response to a log-on attempt to the network access point by the subscriber.