FACILITATING CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY VIA DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION FORMATS

• US 20130103848A1
• Filed: 09/27/2011
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fortinet Inc.
• Original Assignee: 3Crowd Technologies, Inc. (Fortinet Inc.)
• Inventors: Lyon, Barrett Gibson
• Granted Patent: US 9,584,472 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/668 Internet protocol [IP] address subnets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/251 between different IP versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/167 Adaptation for transition between two IP versions, e.g. between IPv4 and IPv6 translation of Internet protocol [IP] addresses H04L61/2503

Abstract

Facilitating content accessibility via different communication formats is disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a content request from an IPv6 enabled client, the requested content is provided to the IPv6 enabled client in IPv6 format, wherein the requested content is originally obtained in IPv4 format from an IPv4 enabled server and translated into IPv6 format.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor configured to;

obtain web content in IPv4 (Internet Protocol version

     4) format from an IPv4 enabled server configured to host the web content in IPv4 format;

translate the web content from IPv4 format to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version

     6) format;

host the web content in IPv6 format; and

provide the web content in IPv6 format to an IPv6 enabled client in response to a request from the IPv6 enabled client for the web content; and

a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.

2. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is dual stack.

3. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is natively connected to both an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network.

4. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to communicate with the IPv4 enabled server natively via an IPv4 network.

5. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to communicate with the IPv6 enabled client natively via an IPv6 network.

6. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive a request for the web content from an IPv4 enabled client and provide the requested content to the IPv4 enabled client in IPv4 format.

7. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to seed the web content from the IPv4 enabled server so that the web content is translated into IPv6 format and available in IPv6 format prior to any client request for the web content.

8. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the system facilitates content from the IPv4 enabled server to be accessible via IPv6.

9. A method, comprising:

obtaining web content in IPv4 (Internet Protocol version

     4) format from an IPv4 enabled server configured to host the web content in IPv4 format;

translating the web content from IPv4 format to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version

     6) format using a processor;

hosting the web content in IPv6 format and

providing the web content in IPv6 format to an IPv6 enabled client in response to a request from the IPv6 enabled client for the web content.

10. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the processor is dual stack.

11. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the processor is natively connected to both an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network.

12. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to communicate with the IPv4 enabled server natively via an IPv4 network.

13. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to communicate with the IPv6 enabled client natively via an IPv6 network.

14. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising receiving a request for the web content from an IPv4 enabled client and providing the requested content to the IPv4 enabled client in IPv4 format.

15. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein obtaining web content in IPv4 format comprises seeding the web content from the IPv4 enabled server so that the web content is translated into IPv6 format and available in IPv6 format prior to any client request for the web content.

16. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the processor facilitates content from the IPv4 enabled server to be accessible via IPv6.

17. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the processor is part of a proxy server.

18. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions to be executed by a processor for:

obtaining web content in IPv4 (Internet Protocol version

     4) format from an IPv4 enabled server configured to host the web content in IPv4 format;

translating the web content from IPv4 format to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version

     6) format;

hosting the web content in IPv6 format and

providing the web content in IPv6 format to an IPv6 enabled client in response to a request from the IPv6 enabled client for the web content.

19. A computer program product as recited in claim 18, wherein the processor is configured to communicate via both an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network.

20. A computer program product as recited in claim 18, further comprising computer instructions for receiving a request for the web content from an IPv4 enabled client and providing the requested content to the IPv4 enabled client in IPv4 format.