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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2012
Applicants:
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
Richard P. Youngman, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Inventors:
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
Richard P. Youngman, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Responsive to receiving a request for a data communications connection, a data communications module of a receiver determines whether a sender of the request is local or remote with respect to the receiver. The data communications module also determines whether a location response flag indicates local or remote. If the relative location of the sender with respect to the receiver corresponds with the location response flag, then the data communications connection is allowed. Otherwise, the connection is not allowed.