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Packet communication method, node apparatus and packet communication system

  • US 7,002,959 B2
  • Filed: 12/22/2000
  • Issued: 02/21/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A packet communication method of communication employing a packet having a transmission-source address and a destination address, comprising the steps of:

  • a) making a predetermined number of bits of the transmission-source address and a predetermined number of bits of the destination address of the packet be predetermined address portions;

    b) sending the packet from a transmission-source terminal to a source-side repeating node, and then converting at the source-side repeating node the predetermined address portion of the transmission-source address into an address of a higher-rank station for said a source-side repeating node; and

    c) said source-side repeating node converting the predetermined address portion of the destination address into an address of a higher-rank station of a last destination-side repeating node for a destination terminal, and transferring the packet.

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