Inter-network transfer
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorWassim Haddad
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Abstract
A method of routing a mobile device connection between a first network (700) and a second network (710) comprises the steps of, providing a software agent upon a processing element, monitoring a data transfer application resident upon, and/or input-output (IO) port of, the device (720) using the software agent and determining whether the application requires mobile network addressing upon the device (720) moving from the first network (700) to the second network (710) to maintain said connection using the results of the monitoring.
Claims31
A method of routing a mobile device connection between a first network and a second network comprising the steps of:
- i) providing a software agent upon a processing element;
- ii) monitoring with said software agent at least one of a data transfer application resident upon said mobile device, and an input-output (IO) port of said mobile device;
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- iii) determining, using the results of said monitoring, whether said data transfer application requires mobile network addressing upon said mobile device moving from said first network to said second network to maintain said connection.
A memory device encoded with a data structure, said data structure arranged to determine whether a data transfer application, resident upon a mobile device, requires mobile network addressing upon said mobile device moving from a first network to a second network, said data structure containing entries relating to:
- i) application type;
- ii) application usage;
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- iii) a requirement for mobile addressing.
A mobile device having a network connection to a first network and further having a software agent resident thereupon, said software agent arranged to monitor at least one of at least one data transfer application resident thereupon and at least one IO port of said device and to determine if said at least one data transfer application requires mobile network addressing upon said data transfer device moving from said first network to a second network.
A data transfer system including at least one network element in a first network arranged to receive data from a mobile device temporarily resident in said first network and having a network address associated with a second network and mask the origin of said data such that said data can enter said second network through a security screen arranged to prevent said data bearing a source network address associated with the second network from entering said second network.
A method of transferring data from a first network to a second network where a mobile device is temporarily resident in said first network and has a network address associated with a second network such that data can enter said first network through a security screen arranged to prevent data bearing a source network address associated with said second network from entering said first network comprising at least the following steps, the order of which may be altered:
- i) transmitting data from said mobile device to a network element of said first network;
- ii) inserting a network address associated with said network element into said data;
- iii) passing said data to said screen;
- iv) reading of said inserted network address by said screen;
- v) determining that said inserted network address is from a network other than said second network;
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- vi) allowing said data to enter the first network.
A method of routing a connection from mobile device to a first network between said first network and a second network comprising the steps of:
- i) providing a software agent upon a processing element within said mobile device;
- ii) monitoring with said software agent at least one of a data transfer application resident upon said mobile device, and an input-output (IO) port of said mobile device;
- iii) determining, using the results of said monitoring, whether said data transfer application requires the use of mobile network addressing, to maintain said connection, when said mobile device moves from said first network to said second network;
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- iv) if it is determined that mobile network addressing is not required dropping said connection to said first network and establishing a connection to said second network.
A mobile device having a network connection to a first network and further having a software agent resident thereupon, said software agent arranged to monitor at least one of at least one data transfer application resident thereupon and at least one IO port of said device and to determine if said at least one data transfer application requires mobile network addressing upon said data transfer device moving from said first network to a second network;
- said device is further arranged to drop said network connection to said first network and to establish a connection with said second network if it is determined that mobile network addressing is not required.
A mobile processing means for processing data having a network connection to a first network said processing means being arranged to monitor at least one of at least one data transfer application resident thereupon and at least one IO port of said processing means and further arranged to determine if said at least one data transfer application requires mobile network addressing upon said processing means moving from said first network to a second network wherein said processing means is further arranged to establish a connection with said second network if it is determined that mobile addressing is not required.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.