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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. 02, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas P. Hardjono, Arlington, MA (US);
Brad Cain, Cambridge, MA (US);
Naganand Doraswamy, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ; G06F 1/130 ; G06F 1/214 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ; G06F 1/130 ; G06F 1/214 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus for securing a session in a system having application and network layers. The session is managed by a session manager. Security components used in the session are provided by a security storage. The session manager coordinates a mapping of a conference session at the application layer to a multicast session at the network layer using the security components provided by the security storage.