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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
May. 30, 2003
Arun N. Netravali, Westfield, NJ (US);
Edward Stanley Szurkowski, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Arun N. Netravali, Westfield, NJ (US);
Edward Stanley Szurkowski, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A virtual network is configured in a communication system in such a manner that the virtual network is not required to have associated therewith any particular physical home location, or more generally any dedicated arrangement of physical network infrastructure elements. The communication system includes a communication network, such as a wireless network or the Internet, connectable to one or more user communication elements. Information is received from a given one of the communication elements indicating association of the given communication element with a particular virtual network, and responsive to the received information the virtual network is configured to include the given communication element. The virtual network may be comprised entirely of remote users. Emulated data network and voice network functionality may be provided to those users without requiring their corresponding entity to have a physical home location for data network and voice network elements, or any particular dedicated arrangement of such physical network infrastructure elements.