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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:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2001
Applicants:
Werner Lindemann, Mülheim, DE;
Norbert Schönfeld, Dortmund, DE;
Frank Wulf, Neuss, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F015/16 ; G06F015/173 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
On receiving a message in a communications device, a sender or destination network address is checked to determine whether the network address is intended for address conversion. In cases in which the network address is intended for address conversion, a received virtual destination network address is converted to a communications-device-internal destination network address, or a received communications-device-internal sender network address is converted to a virtual sender network address.