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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2003
Keisuke Suzuki, Yokosuka, JP;
Kazuyuki Kozu, Yokosuka, JP;
Yukichi Saito, Yokohama, JP;
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communications system includes a memory storing a table in which information identifying each server is associated with information identifying a plurality of switching devices, a communication incapability detector for detecting that a given switching device cannot relay data destined for a given server transmitted from a mobile terminal to the given server, a selector for selecting, based on the detection, a switching device other than the given switching device from among a plurality of switching devices associated with the given server, by referring to the table and information identifying the given server, and a transmitter for transmitting data to the selected switching device.