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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2005
Applicant:
Torbjörn Cagenius, Sollentuna, SE;
Inventor:
Torbjörn Cagenius, Sollentuna, SE;
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a network terminals communicate wirelessly through gateway devices with an access node. In the access node an original media access control (MAC) address of a terminal is mapped to a unique, locally administered virtual MAC address for the terminal. This virtual MAC address has a particular portion indicating a unit-specific use including fields that indicate a port index for the gateway device through which the respective terminal communicates with the access node, and an MAC index for the original media access control address of the terminal.