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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
John J. Christudass, Coppell, TX (US);
Abhilash Paul, Irving, TX (US);
Sunil D. Limbasia, Irving, TX (US);
Ravi Penumatsa, Irving, TX (US);
Aravind Perumandla, Lewisville, TX (US);
John J. Christudass, Coppell, TX (US);
Abhilash Paul, Irving, TX (US);
Sunil D. Limbasia, Irving, TX (US);
Ravi Penumatsa, Irving, TX (US);
Aravind Perumandla, Lewisville, TX (US);
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A network device receives, from a set-top box within a local network, a discovery request for a server application within the local network. The network device identifies, based on the discovery request, a wide area network (WAN) Internet Protocol (IP) address for a router in the local network and retrieves, from a database of multiple discovery records, a particular discovery record with an IP address that matches the WAN IP address for the local network. The network device sends, to the set-top box, the particular discovery record for use in initiating a communication session with the server application.