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US 2003/0120800 A1Published application
Network layer protocol
AssigneeEdwards Systens Technology, Inc.
InventorsAndrew Novetzke, Peter Montgomery, Richard Chmielewski, Doug Price
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Abstract
Method and apparatus of a network protocol that provides the network, transport, session and presentation layers of the open systems interconnection model.
Claims20
A network protocol, comprising:
- a packet identification data segment;
- an address data segment;
- a length data segment;
- and
- a transport data segment,
- wherein the network protocol is encapsulated within a physical layer protocol which must be parsed to extract the network protocol.
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A method of addressing a data network, comprising the steps of:
- identifying the primary purpose of a packet;
- providing originating and destination source addresses;
- identifying total number of bytes remaining in the packet;
- and
- identifying information required to deliver a command from a computer application to a target module.
2 more elements
A network protocol packet, comprising:
- means for identifying the primary purpose of each packet;
- means for providing originating and destination source addresses;
- means for identifying total number of bytes remaining in the packet;
- and
- means for identifying information required to deliver a command from a computer application to a target module
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.