Mobile network traffic management
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsStephane Laroche, Jocelyn Le Sage, Richard H. Blanchette
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Abstract
A method for mobile computer networking on a distributed network includes, with a network element of a local network, establishing a connection to a mobile client device, determining a home network of the mobile client device without using a logical address of a packet of data from the mobile client device, and forwarding network traffic from the mobile client device to a home network of the mobile client device in response to determining that the home network is not the local network.
Claims15
A method for mobile computer networking on a distributed network, the method comprising:
- with a network element of a local network, establishing a connection to a mobile client device;
- with said network element, determining a home network of said mobile client device without using a logical address of a packet of data from said mobile client device;
- and
- with said network element, forwarding network traffic from said mobile client device to a home network of said mobile client device in response to determining that said home network is not said local network.
A network element comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory communicatively coupled to said processor;
- in which said processor is configured to:
- establish a connection to a mobile client device;
- determine a home network of said mobile client device without using a logical address of a packet of data from said mobile client device;
- and
- forward network traffic from said mobile client device to a home network of said mobile client device in response to determining that said home network is not said local network.
A method for forwarding traffic from mobile client devices which roam between a number of interconnected local networks, the method comprising:
- with a network element of one of said local networks, establishing a connection to a mobile client;
- with said network element, determining whether a home network of said mobile client corresponds to said one of said local networks without using a logical address of a packet of data from said mobile client device;
- with said network element, forwarding network traffic from said mobile client device to said home network in response to determining that said network element is not associated with said home network;
- wherein said mobile client device is configured to receive a number of network services from only said home network;
- wherein said local network and said home network belong to said distributed network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.