Method and system for performing the transmission of private data over a public network

• US 6,167,515 A
• Filed: 06/02/1998
• Issued: 12/26/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Ho-Shyan
• Primary Examiner(s): Peeso, Thomas R.
• Application Number:
  US09/089,167
• Time in Patent Office: 938 Days
• Field of Search: 713/160, 713/161, 713/168, 713/171, 713/182, 713/184, 713/200, 713/201, 713/202, 380/255, 380/277
• US Class Current: 713/160
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0045 Arrangements at the receiver end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0061 Error detection codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks

Abstract

A method and system for performing private transmission between some special network nodes of a public network. First, a network node serving as a transmitter sends a format packet incorporating user-defined check polynomial coefficients to another network node serving as a receiver. The receiver network node separates the coefficient information and loads it to a universal checker. While transmitting the private data, packets containing the private data have a check data generated by using the user-defined coefficients. Then the receiver network node can employ the universal checker to verify the reception of these packets containing the private data. When the private data transmission finishes, the transmitter network node sends a recovery packet to the receiver network node for ending the private data transmission.

Claims

1. A method for performing the transmission of private data between a first network node and a second network node of a public network, comprising the steps of:

installing a universal checker in the second network node;

sending a format packet having a set of checker-polynomial coefficients from the first network node to the second network node;

receiving and storing the set of the checker-polynomial coefficients in the universal checker of the second network node;

generating a check data associated with the private data according to the set of the checker-polynomial coefficients in the first network node;

sending a data packet including the private data and the check data from the first network node to the second network node; and

verifying the check data by using the universal checker in the second network node for checking the correspondence between the private data and the check data.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

sending a recovery packet including a set of original checker-polynomial coefficients defined in the public network from the first network node to the second network node; and

storing the set of the original checker-polynomial coefficients in the universal checker of the second network node.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the public network is an Ethernet and the check data is stored in the FCS field of the data packet.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the format packet further comprises a checker-polynomial length data for representing the highest degree associated with the set of the checker-polynomial coefficients.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the format packet further comprises a mirror image data with respect to the set of the checker-polynomial coefficients, and the second network node uses the mirror image data to identify the format packet or not.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the checker-polynomial coefficients are coefficients of a CRC generating function.

7. A system for performing the transmission of private data over a public network, comprising:

a first network node having a check-data generating device for generating a check data in response to the private data by using a set of checker-polynomial coefficients, the first network node sequentially sending a format packet having the set of the checker-polynomial coefficients and a data packet having the private data and the check data to the public network; and

a second network node having a universal checker for checking the check data generated by the first network node, the second network node storing the set of the checker-polynomial coefficients in the universal checker when receiving the format packet, and checking the correspondence between the private data and the check data by using the universal checker when receiving the data packet.

8. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the checker-polynomial coefficients are coefficients of a CRC generating function.

9. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the public network is an Ethernet and the check data is stored in the FCS field of the data packet.

10. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the format packet further comprises a checker-polynomial length data for representing the highest degree associated with the set of the checker-polynomial coefficients.

11. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the format packet further comprises mirror image data with respect to the set of the checker-polynomial coefficients, and the second network node uses the mirror image data to identify the format packet or not.

12. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the first network node sends a recovery packet including a set of original checker-polynomial coefficients defined in the public network to the second network node after sending the data packet, for recovering the state of the universal checker in the second network node.

13. A method for performing the transmission of private data between a first network node and a second network node of a public network, comprising the steps of:

installing a universal checker in the second network node;

storing a pre-defined set of checker-polynomial coefficients in the universal checker of the second network node;

generating a check data associated with the private data by using the pre-defined set of checker-polynomial coefficients in the first network node;

sending a data packet including the private data and the check data from the first network node to the second network node; and

verifying the check data by using the universal checker in the second network node for checking the correspondence between the private data and the check data.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the public network is an Ethernet and the check data is stored in the FCS field of the data packet.

15. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the pre-defined checker-polynomial coefficients are coefficients of a CRC generating function.

16. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the pre-defined checker-polynomial coefficients are different with the original checker-polynomial coefficients defined in the public network.