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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Chen, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Derek Hee Jun Cha, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/265 (2013.01); H04L 29/12264 (2013.01); H04L 29/12933 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device comprising a router may be configured to couple to a gateway device and may be configured, upon being assigned a Wide Area Network (WAN) Internet Protocol (IP) address by the gateway device, to iteratively: (1) determine whether a LAN IP address of the device conflicts with the assigned WAN IP address; and (2) change the LAN IP address of the device if the LAN IP address of the device conflicts with the WAN IP address assigned by the network gateway.