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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2012
Applicants:
Mahesh Kelkar, Nashua, NH (US);
Prasad Deshpande, Lexington, MA (US);
Del Friedman, Acton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and device to manage addresses in a network includes receiving a request for a network address from a client computer at a proxy computer, relaying the request to an address server, receiving an address offer message from the address server at the proxy computer, storing an server identifier of the address server from the offer message, replacing the server identifier of the address server in the offer message with an address identifier of the proxy computer to produce an altered offer message, and sending the altered offer message to the client computer.