Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing – Network resources access controlling
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-26
2006-12-26
Najjar, Saleh (Department: 2155)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing
Network resources access controlling
C709S229000, C709S249000, C455S411000, C370S285000, C713S166000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07155526
ABSTRACT:
A method and system are provided for integrating a WLAN radio access network into a GSM/GPRS core network wherein gateways are added that transparently transport services between the two networks. A further aspect of the invention is secure authentication. The system has two network elements: a Radio Link Manager (RLM) and a Radio Access Controller (RAC), and a software application, a Multi-Link Client (MLC) to control the functionality of the integration and the authentication. The MLC resides on a user device. The RAC provides protocol stacks and interworking functions to allow the MLC to talk to a Home Location Register (HLR). The RLM and MLC set up a “tunnel” employing, for example, PPP over Ethernet (PPPOE), and all of the data packets received on this tunnel are forwarded by the RLM to the Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN over a further tunnel using the GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP).
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Ahmed Allam Zaheer
Chaudhary Mayank S.
Chuang Chih-hsin Alan
Kant Nishi
Ritter Michael W.
Azaire Networks, Inc.
Groover & Holmes
Najjar Saleh
Nguyen Thuong
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