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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2008
Applicants:

Thomer M. Gil, Brookline, MA (US);

Sanjit Biswas, San Francisco, CA (US);

John Bicket, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomer M. Gil, Brookline, MA (US);

Sanjit Biswas, San Francisco, CA (US);

John Bicket, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Meraki, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A network traffic device for a managed network can operate as a client host, to receive packets from the managed network and forward them to an uplinked external network, thereby operating as a gateway to the uplink network and performing a network address translation (NAT) function for the managed network relative to the uplinked network.


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