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Method and apparatus for preventing misrouting of data in a radio communication system

  • US 6,246,670 B1
  • Filed: 10/16/1997
  • Issued: 06/12/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a method for communicating packet data during a communication session between a selected communication station and a wireless communication station by way of a communication network, the wireless communication station identified during the communication session by a dynamically-assigned address, the dynamically-assigned address selected from an address list, an improvement of a method for preventing misrouting of the data subsequent to abnormal session end by the wireless communication station and formation of a half-open connection, said method comprising the steps of:

  • determining whether the communication session has ended abnormally; and

    in response to a determination that the communication session has ended abnormally, updating the address list with an indication that the dynamically-assigned address used temporarily to identify the wireless communication station during the communication session is unavailable for reassignation to identify another wireless communication station for a selected address-unavailable time period.

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