Method for assigning an IP address to a network connectable device

• US 20040139226A1
• Filed: 12/13/2002
• Published: 07/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aladdin Knowledge Systems Limited (Thales SA)
• Original Assignee: Aladdin Knowledge Systems Limited (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Margalit, Yanki, Margalit, Dany
• Application Number:
  US10/318,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20040139226A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a method for assigning a known IP address to a network connectable device to be installed at a local area network such that no further operations regarding assigning the IP address are required at the installation site, the method comprising: registering a global IP address at a central authority for registering IP addresses; assigning the global IP address to the network connectable device at the manufacturer site; thereby bypassing the need of assigning a local IP address to the network connectable device, at the installation site. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, setting the registered IP address to the network connectable device is carried out at the manufacturer site.

Claims

1. A method for assigning a known IP address to a network connectable device to be installed at a local area network such that no further operations regarding assigning the IP address are required at the installation site, said method comprising:

i)registering a global IP address at a central authority for registering IP addresses;

ii)assigning said global IP address to said network connectable device at said manufacturer site;

thereby bypassing the need of assigning a local IP address to said network connectable device, at the installation site.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein setting the registered IP address to said network connectable device is carried out at the manufacturer site.

3. A method according to claim 1, further comprising assigning a local IP address to said network connectable device after installing said network connectable device at the installation site, thereby enabling assigning the global IP address to another network connectable device.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said network connectable device is placed at the gateway of said local area network.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said local area network is a network connected directly or indirectly to the Internet.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein said global IP address is unassigned by said central authority for registering IP addresses.