System and method for correlating routing protocol information
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorJoelle T. Maslak
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for correlating information associated with one networking transmission protocol, such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), to information associated with a different networking transmission protocol, such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv4). More specifically, when resolving an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with a requesting device to a network, the system may base the resolved destination on one or more attributes of a known address to build a network mapping of the received IP address. In one specific example, an IPv6 address is received and associated with a known IPv4 address to map the network.
Claims17
A method for operating a telecommunications network, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a content delivery network (CDN) server, a first request associated with a communication on the telecommunications network, the first request comprising a first address in a first address protocol, the first address related to a requesting device from which the request was sent;
- storing, by the CDN server, the first address related to the requesting device in a database of routing protocol information;
- receiving, at the CDN server, a second request at the telecommunications network, the second request comprising a second address in a second address protocol, the second address related to the requesting device from which the request was sent, wherein the second address protocol is different than the first address protocol;
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- correlating, by the CDN server, the first address stored in the database and the second address of the requesting device.
A telecommunications device comprising:
- a network communication port to transmit and receive communications over a telecommunications network;
- a processor;
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- a memory device in communication with the processor for storing one or more instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the telecommunications device to perform the operations of:
- receiving, at the telecommunications device, a first request from a requesting device through the network communication port, the first request comprising a first address in a first address protocol;
- storing the first address from the requesting device in a database of routing protocol information;
- receiving, at the telecommunications device, a second request through the network communication port, the second request comprising a second address in a second address protocol, the second address related to the requesting device, wherein the second address protocol is different than the first address protocol;
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- correlating the first address stored in the database and the second address of the requesting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.