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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2002
James W. O'toole, Jr., Somerville, MA (US);
James W. O'Toole, Jr., Somerville, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to techniques for processing messages to be transferred from a first network to a second network, the method comprising the steps of receiving a message at a second data communications device coupling the first and second networks, determining that the message is associated with a data path through a first data communications device that couples the first and second networks independently from the second data communications device and processing the message to maintain a connection associated with the message, the connection existing between a first computerized device operating in the first network and a second computerized device operating in the second network.