Local network connecting system local network connecting method and mobile terminal

• US 8,265,084 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2006
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Fujino, Shozo
• Primary Examiner(s): Nawaz, Asad
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chu, Wutchung
• Application Number:
  US11/331,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20060153211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,433 Days
• Field of Search: 370/352, 370/399, 370/395.54, 370/395.53, 370/401, 370/395.3, 370/395.2, 370/389, 370/392, 370/409, 370/474, 370/475, 379/221.14, 379/258, 379/280, 379/355.02, 379/355.04, 340 11- 161, 362/24, 709217-219, 709/245, 710/3, 711 1- 6, 711200-221
• US Class Current: 370/395.54
• 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 12/4641 Virtual LANs, VLANs, e.g. virtual private networks [VPN] LAN interconnection over a bridge based backbone H04L12/462; encapsulation techniques H04L12/4633; routing of packets H04L45/00; packet switches H04L49/00; virtual private networks for security H04L63/0272
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2535 Multiple local networks, e.g. resolving potential IP address conflicts
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/35 involving non-standard use of addresses for implementing network functionalities, e.g. coding subscription information within the address or functional addressing, i.e. assigning an address to a function
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5046 Resolving address allocation conflicts; Testing of addresses testing when self-assigning an address H04L61/5092
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5061 Pools of addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5084 Providing for device mobility network addressing or numbering for mobility support in wireless networks H04W8/26; mobile IP H04W80/04

Abstract

A local network connecting system includes a first local network, a second local network, a mobile terminal. The first local network is connected with a gateway and a first server assigned with a first local address. The second local network is connected with a second server. The mobile terminal VPN “Virtual Private Network”-connect to the second server through the first local network. The gateway provide mapping of local address for a terminal connected to the first local network. When a packet is sent to the first server from mobile terminal, the mobile terminal assigns a second local address unused over the VPN-connection to a destination address of the packet instead of the first local address, and transmits the packet to the gateway. The gateway translate the second local address into the first local address as destination address of the packet, and transmits the packet to the first server based on the translated destination.

Claims

1. A local network connecting system comprising:

a first local network comprising a first server assigned with a first local address within the first local network;

a second local network comprising a second server;

a mobile terminal; and

a gateway connected to said first local network,

wherein said mobile terminal selects a second local address from an unused local address pool of the second local network, assigns the selected second local address as a destination address to a packet to be sent to the first server from the mobile terminal, transmits said packet to said gateway to be transmitted to the first server, wherein a virtual private network (VPN) connection is established between said mobile terminal and said second server through said first local network, and

said gateway translates said second local address into said first local address as said destination address of said packet, and transmits said packet to said first server based on said translated destination address,

the local network connecting system further comprising;

a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server connected to said second local network, wherein the DHCP server assigns the unused local address pool to the mobile terminal, the unused local address pool corresponding to an unused address space for said VPN connection,

wherein said gateway sends said first local address to said mobile terminal,

said mobile terminal acquires said second local address from said unused address pool, generates an address table describing a relation of said second local address and said first local address, and sends said address table to said gateway,

said mobile terminal assigns said second local address to a destination address of the packet based on said address table, and transmits said packet to said gateway, and

said gateway translates said second local address into said first local address as said destination address of said packet based on said address table, and transmits said packet to said first server based on said translated destination address.

2. The local network connecting system according to claim 1, said mobile terminal connected to said gateway, acquires the number of in-use addresses over said first local network from said gateway, and transmits said number to said DHCP server through said VPN,

said DHCP server assigns said number of local address spaces unused over said VPN to said mobile terminal, and

said mobile terminal acquires said second local address from said unused address pool based on said local address space, generates an address table describing a relation of said second local address and said first local address, and sends said address table to said gateway.

3. The local network connecting system according to claim 1, further comprising:

plural mobile terminals,

wherein said gateway acquires address tables describing relation of said second local address and said first local address from said plural mobile terminals, generates an address table list describing relations of said address tables and said plural mobile terminals,

each of said plural mobile terminal assigns said second local address to the destination address of the packet based on said address table, and transmits said packet to said gateway, and

said gateway translates said second local address into said first local address as a destination address of said packet based on said address table associated with a source mobile terminal of said packet, and transmits said packet to said first server based on said translated destination.

4. The local network connecting system according to claim 1,

wherein said gateway transmits a packet received from said mobile terminal to said second server thorough said VPN, when a destination address of said packet assigned with address of said second server.

5. The local network connecting system according to claim 1,

wherein said mobile terminal accesses said gateway as a portal, when said mobile terminal accesses said first local network.

6. A mobile terminal comprising:

an address table database;

a transmission and reception processor; and

a transmission and reception unit,

wherein said address table database stores an address table describing a relation of a first local address corresponding to a first local server within a first local network and a second local address corresponding to a second local network, the first local network different from the second local network,

said transmission and reception processor assigns said second local address to a destination address of a packet based on said address table, and

said transmission and reception unit transmits said packet to said first local server via a gateway and specifies the second local address as the destination address of the packet to be transmitted to the first local server,

said mobile terminal further comprising;

a connecting section; and

an address table generator,

wherein said connecting section connects to a DHCP “

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol”

server in said second local network through a virtual private network (VPN), and

said address table generator acquires an unused address pool corresponding to the second local network from said DHCP server through said VPN, and generates an address table describing a relation of a second local address acquired from said unused address pool and said first local address.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 6,

said transmission and reception processor assigns a local address of said second server to the destination of a packet, and

said transmission and reception unit transmits said packet to said second server through said VPN via said gateway.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the gateway translates said second local address into said first local address as a destination address of said packet.

9. A method of connecting a mobile terminal to a local network, comprising:

transmitting a packet destined to a first server from a mobile terminal to a gateway, the packet sent to a second local address selected from an unused local address pool of a second local network;

translating, by a gateway connected to a first local network, said second local address into a first local address; and

transmitting the packet from said gateway to said first server using the first local address as the destination address of the packet;

acquiring the number of in-use local address over said first local network from said gateway; and

generating an address table describing a relation of said first local address and said second local address, wherein;

the first local network different from the second local network,

said first server is provided for the first local network, and is assigned the first local address within the first local network,

a VPN (virtual private network) exists between a second server on said second network and the mobile terminal, and the unused address pool corresponds to an unused VPN address pool,

the number of addresses in the unused address pool is at least said number, and

said mobile terminal selects said second local address from the unused address pool.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

acquiring a second local address unused over said VPN from said second local network;

accessing said gateway as a portal in said first local network;

transmitting said address table to said gateway from said mobile terminal;

generating an address table list describing a relation of said address table and said mobile terminal;

said mobile terminal assigning said second local address to destination address of said packet based on said address table;

said gateway translating said second local address into said first local address as a destination address of said packet based on said address table; and

said gateway transmitting said packet to said first server based on said translated destination address.