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Systems and methods for maintaining a client's network connection thru a change in network identifier

  • US 8,090,874 B2
  • Filed: 06/20/2005
  • Issued: 01/03/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for maintaining a network connection of a client through a change in a network identifier of the client, the method comprising:

  • (a) providing, by a first protocol service, a network connection between a client and a server, the network connection comprising a first connection between the client and the first protocol service and a second connection between the first protocol service and the server, the server communicating with the client using a first network identifier;

    (b) establishing a user session via a second protocol encapsulated in a first protocol, the first protocol service communicating to the server using the second protocol;

    (c) generating, by the first protocol service, a session identifier associated with the established user session;

    (d) associating, by the first protocol service, the session identifier and the first network identifier;

    (e) transmitting, by the first protocol service, the session identifier to the client;

    (f) maintaining, by the first protocol service, a queue of recently transmitted data packets;

    (g) detecting, by the first protocol service, a disruption in the first connection;

    (h) receiving, by the first protocol service from the client, a second network identifier and the session identifier;

    (i) associating, by the first protocol service, the second network identifier and the session identifier, the server communicating with the client using the second network identifier and the session identifier;

    (j) re-establishing, by the first protocol service, the disrupted first connection using the session identifier while maintaining the second connection between the first protocol service and the server; and

    (k) transmitting the queued data packets over the re-established first connection.

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