Methods, systems, and products for address translation

• US 10,348,677 B2
• Filed: 11/11/2016
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Das, Jayanta, Doshi, Bhavin A., Singh, Anand Kumar, Kumar, Saurabh
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Krishnan, Rajeshwari
• Application Number:
  US15/349,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20170085524A1
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2834 Switching of information between an external network and a home network access arrangements H04L12/2856
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/25 of the same type
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/256 NAT traversal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2567 for reachability, e.g. inquiring the address of a correspondent behind a NAT server
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2585 through application level gateway [ALG]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products translate addresses in networks. A residential gateway translates requests for content such that the residential gateway appears as both a requestor and a destination for requested content, regardless of an actual requesting device or a desired output device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a gateway, a request from a device requesting a content delivered to multiple different output devices;

assigning, by the gateway, an identifier to the request from the device requesting the content delivered to the multiple different output devices;

generating, by the gateway, a translated request that specifies the gateway as both a requestor of the content and as a destination for the content;

logging, by the gateway, the identifier to the translated request, to the device requesting the content, and to the multiple different output devices;

sending, by the gateway, the translated request via a network to a content server;

receiving, by the gateway, the content via the network in response to the translated request sent to the content server;

determining, by the gateway, based on the logging of the identifier, the multiple different output devices associated with the content; and

forwarding, by the gateway, the content to the multiple different output devices.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a destination address associated with any of the multiple different output devices.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising sending the content to the destination address.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a network address associated with the gateway.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising specifying the network address in the translated request.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a selection specifying any of the multiple different output devices.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising populating a graphical listing with the multiple different output devices.

8. A system, comprising:

a hardware processor; and

a memory device, the memory device storing instructions, the instructions when executed causing the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving a request from a device requesting a content delivered to multiple different output devices;

assigning an identifier to the request from the device requesting the content;

generating a translated request that specifies the system as both a requestor of the content and as a destination for the content;

logging the identifier to the translated request, to the device requesting the content, and to the multiple different output devices;

sending the translated request via a network to a content server;

receiving the content via the network in response to the translated request sent to the content server;

determining, based on the logging of the identifier, the multiple different output devices associated with the content; and

forwarding the content to the multiple different output devices.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a destination address associated with any of the multiple different output devices.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise sending the content to the destination address.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a network address associated with the system.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise specifying the network address in the translated request.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a selection specifying any of the multiple different output devices.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise populating a graphical listing with the multiple different output devices.

15. A memory device storing instructions that when executed cause a hardware processor of a gateway to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a request from a device requesting a content delivered to multiple different output devices;

assigning an identifier to the request from the device requesting the content;

generating a translated request that specifies the system as both a requestor of the content and as a destination for the content;

logging the identifier to the translated request, to the device requesting the content, and to the multiple different output devices;

sending the translated request via a network to a content server;

receiving the content via the network in response to the translated request sent to the content server;

determining, based on the logging of the identifier, the multiple different output devices associated with the content; and

forwarding the content to the multiple different output devices.

16. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a destination address associated with any of the multiple different output devices.

17. The memory device of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise sending the content to the destination address.

18. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a network address associated with the gateway.

19. The memory device of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise specifying the network address in the translated request.

20. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise receiving selections specifying the multiple different output devices in a graphical listing.