Patent 6119171 Issued on September 12, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: January 29, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
709/245, COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER DATA ADDRESSING370/390, Replicate messages for multiple destination distribution370/392, Processing of address header for routing, per se370/397, Employing logical addressing for routing (e.g., VP or VC)370/409, Employing logical addressing for routing (e.g., VP or VC)709/202, Processing agent709/238, COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER DATA ROUTING709/249, MULTIPLE NETWORK INTERCONNECTING709/250NETWORK-TO-COMPUTER INTERFACING
The present invention provides for a Domain Name Router (DNR) that uses domain names to route data sent to a destination on a network (e.g., a stub network). Each corporate entity or stub network can be assigned one or a small number of global addresses. Each of the hosts on the stub network can be assigned a global address. When a source entity sends data to a destination entity with a local address, the data is sent to the DNR using a global address. The source entity embeds the destination's domain name and its own domain name inside the data. The DNR extracts the destination's domain name from the data, translates that domain name to a local address and sends the data to the destination.
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January 29, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
