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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:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1999
Bart Alfons Peter Van Doorselaer, Ghent, BE;
Bernard Henry Daniel Sales, Brussels, BE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A network contains at least two hosts, coupled to a network, a first and a second host. Besides these hosts there is a name system and an access node, both connected to the internet network. If the first host wants to contact the second host, this first host will request the name system for the Internet address. The name system will search, based on the host name of the second host for the Internet address of this host. If this second host is not active, the name server requests the access node to establish a connection between this access node and the second host. The access node will also assign then an internet address to this second host. Subsequently the access node will forward the assigned internet address of the second host to the name system which on its turn will forward the assigned internet address to the requesting, first host. Now, by using the assigned internet address, the first host is able to contact the second host.
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