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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2013
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Tashiro, Saitama, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A packet transfer device includes: an address conversion unit that allocates a global address to a plurality of private addresses of the plurality of private networks and converts address information and a port number included in a header of a received packet; a transfer unit that transfers a packet having the address information and the port number which are converted by the address conversion unit; and a session restriction unit that manages a number of sessions between a user terminal in the plurality of private networks and a device in the global network for each predetermined group and, when the number of sessions is greater than a number of available sessions which is set to each group, restricts the session of the user terminal which belongs to the group having the excess number of sessions.