Method and system for mobile terminal to access the network through cell phone

• US 9,307,555 B2
• Filed: 12/25/2012
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Zhou, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Connor, Brian
• Application Number:
  US14/369,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20150016439A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/7453 using hashing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/255 Maintenance or indexing of mapping tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2557 Translation policies or rules
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/256 NAT traversal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/104 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2535 adapted for voice communication over an Internet Protocol [IP] network Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network equipment and services H04M7/006; implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method for a mobile terminal to access a network through a cell phone is provided. The mobile terminal may be connected to a network enabled cell phone via a WIFI (wireless fidelity) connection mode, and the network enabled cell phone may serve as a gateway router. TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol) operating principle having element information, such as source address, source port, protocol, destination address and destination port in a data packet, may be processed when a data packet arrives at a network layer of a network enabled cell phone. A Hash table may be dynamically established for searching a network connection, and NAT (network address translation) treatment may be carried out to a data packet, thus, an associated mobile terminal may simultaneously access the network with the network enabled cell phone by the external network IP address of the network enabled cell phone. Because the two devices may share an IP address to access the network, all the network flow may be generated at the gateway cell phone, thus, avoiding cost of other devices. Furthermore, a Hash table may be dynamically established for the data packet in the present invention, which may accelerate search speed of a data packet and processing speed.

Claims

1. A method for a mobile terminal to access a network through a cell phone, comprising the steps:

pre-establishing a connection management Hash table for tagging a network address mapping relationship in the network enabled cell phone, wherein a Hash value in the connection management Hash table is equal to a modulus table length of a binary sum of a source address, a protocol type, a source port and a destination port;

establishing, by the mobile terminal, a point-to-point communication connection with the network enabled cell phone through WiFi, and sending a data packet of a destination server to the network enabled cell phone;

extracting, by the network enabled cell phone, an element group from the data packet sent by the mobile terminal at a network layer and saving the element group in a tuple structure, wherein the element group comprises a source address, a source port, a protocol type, a destination address and a destination port of the data packet;

carrying out, by the network enabled cell phone, NAT treatment on the element group, translating the source address of the data packet to an IP address for dial-up networking of the cell phone, and distributing a dial-up networking port;

connecting the network enabled cell phone to the destination server to communicate according to information of the treated element group; and

saving the element group after being subjected to source address NAT treatment in the connection management Hash table in a form of tuple structure.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

searching, by the network enabled cell phone, the connection management Hash table according to the element group, determining whether a connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, defining the data packet as the first data packet and establishing a new connection structure in the Hash table if the connection structure does not exist in the connection management Hash table.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein searching, by the network enabled cell phone, the connection management Hash table according to the element group and determining whether the connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, includes extracting connection management information represented by the connection structure, monitoring whether the current network requires FTP extension monitoring, updating a current connection management status, and carrying out NAT treatment on the data packet to realize communications between the mobile terminal and the destination server if the connection structure exists in the connection management Hash table.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

determining whether the data packet is data connection of other FTP control chains according to the new connection structure if a protocol in the element group is an FTP protocol, and carrying out destination address NAT treatment on the element group in the data packet if the data packet is the data connection of other FTP control chains.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein sending, by the destination server, a returned data packet to the mobile terminal, includes sending the returned data packet to the network enabled cell phone first, extracting, by the network enabled cell phone, the element group in the returned data packet and searching the connection management Hash table to find a corresponding tuple structure, modifying the returned data packet according to the tuple structure and sending the modified returned data packet to the mobile terminal.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

searching, by the network enabled cell phone, the connection management Hash table according to the element group, determining whether a connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, establishing a new connection structure in the Hash table if the connection structure does not exist in the connection management Hash table.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein searching, by the network enabled cell phone, the connection management Hash table according to the element group and determining whether the connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, includes extracting connection management information represented by the connection structure, monitoring whether the current network requires FTP extension monitoring, updating a current connection management status, and carrying out NAT treatment on the data packet to realize communications between the mobile terminal and the destination server if the connection structure exists in the connection management Hash table.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

determining whether the data packet is data connection of other FTP control chains according to the new connection structure if a protocol in the element group is an FTP protocol, and carrying out destination address NAT treatment on the element group in the data packet if the data packet is the data connection of other FTP control chains.

9. A method for a mobile terminal to access a network through a cell phone, comprising the steps:

pre-establishing a connection management Hash table used for tagging a network address mapping relationship in the network enabled cell phone, wherein a Hash value in the connection management Hash table is equal to a modulus table length of a binary sum of a source address, a protocol type, a source port and a destination port;

establishing, by the mobile terminal, a point-to-point communication connection with the network enabled cell phone through WIFI, and sending a data packet of a destination server to the network enabled cell phone;

extracting, by the network enabled cell phone, an element group in the data packet sent by the mobile terminal at a network layer and saving the element group in a tuple structure, wherein the element group comprises a source address, a source port, a protocol type, a destination address and a destination port of the data packet;

carrying out, by the network enabled cell phone, source address NAT treatment on the element group, translating the source address of the data packet to an IP address for the dial-up networking of the cell phone, and distributing a dial-up networking port; and

connecting the network enabled cell phone to the destination server to communicate according to information of the treated element group.

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

searching, by the network enabled cell phone, the connection management Hash table according to the element group, determining whether a connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, defining the data packet as the first data packet and establishing a new connection structure in the Hash table if the connection structure does not exist in the connection management Hash table.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein searching, by the network enabled cell phone, the connection management Hash table according to the element group and determining whether the connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, includes extracting connection management information represented by the connection structure, monitoring whether the current network requires FTP extension monitoring, updating a current connection management status, and carrying out NAT treatment on the data packet to realize communications between the mobile terminal and the destination server if the connection structure exists in the connection management Hash table.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

determining whether the data packet is data connection of other FTP control chains according to the new connection structure if a protocol in the element group is an FTP protocol, and carrying out destination address NAT treatment on the element group in the data packet if the data packet is the data connection of other FTP control chains.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein sending, by the destination server, a returned data packet to the mobile terminal, includes sending the returned data packet to the network enabled cell phone first, extracting, by the network enabled cell phone, the element group in the returned data packet and searching the connection management Hash table to find a corresponding tuple structure, modifying the returned data packet according to the tuple structure and sending the modified returned data packet to the mobile terminal.

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

searching, by the network enabled cell phone, the connection management Hash table according to the element group, determining whether a connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, establishing a new connection structure in the Hash table if the connection structure does not exist in the connection management Hash table.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein searching, by the network enabled cell phone, the connection management Hash table according to the element group and determining whether the connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, includes extracting connection management information represented by the connection structure, monitoring whether the current network requires FTP extension monitoring, updating a current connection management status, and carrying out NAT treatment on the data packet to realize communications between the mobile terminal and the destination server if the connection structure exists in the connection management Hash table.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:

determining whether the data packet is data connection of other FTP control chains according to the new connection structure if a protocol in the element group is an FTP protocol, and carrying out destination address NAT treatment on the element group in the data packet if the data packet is the data connection of other FTP control chains.

17. The method according to claim 9, wherein sending, by the destination server, a returned data packet to the mobile terminal, includes searching the connection management Hash table to find a corresponding tuple structure, modifying the returned data packet according to the tuple structure and sending the modified returned data packet to the mobile terminal.

18. A system for a mobile terminal to access a network through a cell phone, comprising a mobile terminal and a network enabled cell phone, wherein:

the mobile terminal establishes a point-to-point communication connection with the network enabled cell phone through WIFI, and sends a data packet of a destination server to the network enabled cell phone;

the network enabled cell phone is for extracting an element group in the data packet sent by the mobile terminal at a network layer and saving the element group in a tuple structure, wherein, the element group comprises a source address, a source port, a protocol type, a destination address and a destination port of the data packet;

moreover, the network enabled cell phone is used for carrying out source address NAT treatment on the element group, translating the source address of the data packet to an IP address for the dial-up networking of the cell phone, and distributing a dial-up networking port; and

being connected to the destination server to communicate according to information of the treated element group;

the destination server is used for being communicated with the mobile terminal and the network enabled cell phone; and

the network enabled cell phone includes

a Hash table establishing management module used for pre-establishing a connection management Hash table used for tagging a network address mapping relationship in a network enabled cell phone, wherein a Hash value in the connection management Hash table is equal to a modulus table length of a binary sum of a source address, a protocol type, a source port and a destination port.

19. The system for a mobile terminal to access the network through a cell phone according to claim 18, wherein the network enabled cell phone is further used for searching the connection management Hash table according to the element group, determining whether a connection structure of the mobile terminal and the destination server exists in the connection management Hash table, defining the data packet as the first data packet and establishing a new connection structure in the Hash table if the connection structure does not exist in the connection management Hash table.

20. The system for a mobile terminal to access the network through a cell phone according to claim 19, wherein the network enabled cell phone is further used for extracting connection management information represented by the connection structure, monitoring whether the current network requires FTP extension monitoring, updating a current connection management status, and carrying out NAT treatment on the data packet to realize communications between the mobile terminal and the destination server if the connection structure exists in the connection management Hash table.