Network data communication system

• US 6,404,766 B1
• Filed: 12/24/1996
• Issued: 06/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Higuchi, Tatsuo, Tarui, Toshiaki, Masuoka, Yoshimasa, Maciel, Frederico Buchholz, Murahashi, Hideki, Yoshizawa, Satoshi, Kitai, Katsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Huy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUONGCHAU BA
• Application Number:
  US08/773,315
• Time in Patent Office: 1,995 Days
• Field of Search: 370/400, 370/401, 370/402, 370/403, 370/404, 370/405, 370/406, 370/389, 370/390, 370/392, 370/393, 370/474, 370/475, 370/396, 370/399, 370/395.52, 370/395.54, 713/201, 709/242, 709/250, 709/228
• US Class Current: 370/392
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2856 Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2874 Processing of data for distribution to the subscribers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/5691 Access to open networks; Ingress point selection, e.g. ISP selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/663 Transport layer addresses, e.g. aspects of transmission control protocol [TCP] or user datagram protocol [UDP] ports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2517 using port numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2567 for reachability, e.g. inquiring the address of a correspondent behind a NAT server
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/06 Transport layer protocols, e.g. TCP [Transport Control Protocol] over wireless transmission control protocol/Internet protocol [TCP/IP] or user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16

Abstract

In order to execute a flow control and a congestion control in a hop-by-hop manner in a data communication among computers connected to different networks, in a data communication between a client A1 and a remote server B, a communication proxy of the remote server B is located in a local server A in an LAN to which the client A belongs. A communication packet to be routed to the remote server B is stolen (received) and passed to a transport layer. A TCP communication between the client A1 and the remote server B is divided into two; a communication between the client A1 and the communication proxy of the remote server B and a communication between the communication proxy of the remote server B and the remote server B.

Claims

1. A network data communication system for a network data communication, comprising:

a first computer connected to a first network;

a second computer connected to a second network; and

a third computer connected to both of said first and second networks for establishing communication thereinbetween,

wherein said third computer includes a communication proxy having a proxy registration table for registering a network address of said second computer and a communication proxy process for receiving a communication packet addressed to said second computer,

said third computer searches said proxy registration table when a communication packet which is not addressed to said third computer is received,

when a destination network address of the communication packet is registered in said proxy destination table, the communication proxy process receives the communication packet and transmits the communication packet to the destination,

said communication proxy process on said third computer receives a communication parameter transmitted from said second computer and registers the communication to said third computer,

wherein said third computer has a port number conversion table for converting a first communication port identifier which is used by said second computer for communication with said first computer into a second communication port identifier which is used by said communication proxy process for communication with said first computer, and

when a communication packet addressed to said second computer is received, the first communication port identifier written in the communication packet is converted to the second communication port identifier, thereby allowing said communication proxy process to receive the communication packet.

2. A third computer connected to both of said first network to which a first computer is connected and a second network to which a second computer is connected, comprising:

a registration table for registering a network address of said second computer;

means for searching the registration table when a communication packet which is not directed to said third computer is received;

a communication process for receiving a communication packet addressed to said second computer when a network address of a destination of the communication packet is registered in said registration table;

means for transmitting the communication packet to the destination;

a correspondence table between a first communication port identifier used by said second computer for a communication with said first computer and a second communication port identifier used by said communication process for a communication with said first computer; and

means for allowing a communication packet addressed to said second computer to be received by said communication process by converting the first communication port identifier written in said communication packet to the second communication port identifier.

3. A network data communication system for a network data communication comprising:

a first computer connected to a first network;

a second computer connected to a second network; and

a third computer connected to both of said first and second networks for establishing communication thereinbetween,

wherein said third computer includes a communication proxy having a proxy registration table and a communication proxy process for receiving a communication packet addressed to said second computer,

wherein said proxy registration table contains a network address of said second computer and communication parameters designating a communication method to be employed in communication between said communication proxy process and said second computer,

wherein said third computer searches said proxy registration table when a communication packet which is not addressed to said third computer is received,

wherein when a destination network address of the communication packet is registered in said proxy registration table, the communication proxy process receives the communication packet and transmits the communication packet to the destination according to the communication method designated by said communication parameters registered in said proxy registration table, and

wherein said communication parameters include a parameter designating quality of service specified by ATM network.