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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:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
May. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dipankar Ray, Plano, TX (US);
Rene Gallant, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 ; G06F 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 ; G06F 1/516 ;
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for dynamic allocation of a network address associated with a virtual subnet ( ) to a network device ( ) having a transceiver ( ) coupled to a network ( ) for broadcasting an address server query message ( ) in response to initialization of the network device ( ) and an address server ( ) coupled to the network ( ) sending the network address associated with a virtual subnet ( ) to the network device ( ) in response to the address server ( ) receiving the address server query message ( ).