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US 2006/0085556 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for accessing CDMA2000 networks
OwnerChueng-Hsien Lin, Sarit Mukherjee +1inventors
InventorsChueng-Hsien Lin, Sarit Mukherjee, Sanjoy Paul
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for accessing a CDMA2000 network translate Internet (IP) addresses of wired and wireless out-of-network users in a source IP address of a single CDMA2000 account that is used for data communications with users of the CDMA2000 network by a group of the out-of-network users.
Claims22
A method for accessing a network for data communications by out-of-network users having Internet addresses, comprising:
- (a) acquiring a source Internet address for accessing the network;
- (b) acquiring a user Internet address from at least one out-of-network user;
- (c) acquiring data packets from at least one out-of-network user;
- (d) replacing the user Internet address in the data packets with the source Internet address;
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- (e) accessing the network using the source Internet address.
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An apparatus for accessing a network for data communications by out-of-network users having Internet addresses, comprising:
- a Network Address Translation/Packet Control Function (NAT-PCF) module coupled to a Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) of the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.