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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2011
Applicants:
Behcet Sarikaya, Wylie, TX (US);
Yangsong Xia, Richardson, TX (US);
Inventors:
Behcet Sarikaya, Wylie, TX (US);
Yangsong Xia, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 80/04 (2009.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04W 88/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 80/045 (2013.01); H04L 61/251 (2013.01); H04L 61/2553 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04W 88/182 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) configured to couple to a mobile node (MN), a network address translation (NAT) server, and an Internet Protocol (IP) version four (IPv4) only host and to associate an IP version six (IPv6) address for an interface with the MN with an IPv4 address for an interface with the IPv4 only host in a NAT state table entry, wherein the NAT state table entry is used to translate an IPv6 packet associated with the MN to an IPv4 packet associated with the IPv4 only host.