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Addressing scheme for a multimedia mobile network

  • US 6,947,398 B1
  • Filed: 11/13/1998
  • Issued: 09/20/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for use in a mobile user station of a packet-based multiaccess communications system, comprising the steps of:

  • assigning an address to be associated with one or more packets of the mobile user station, the address being a combination of an identifier of the mobile user station and an identifier of a network node in the communications system with which the mobile user station is currently associated; and

    automatically reassigning another address to be associated with one or more packets of the mobile user station when the station becomes associated with another network node of the communications system, the other address being a combination of the identifier of the mobile user station and an identifier of the other network node;

    such that a network node in the communications system is not required to obtain additional address information to direct a packet associated with a call to or from the mobile user station.

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