Patent ID: 11962502
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A control apparatus configured to control communication between a plurality of locations, the control apparatus comprising:
a database configured to store, for each of the plurality of locations, a respective key for identifying a respective content and a respective IP address of a respective Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) in association with each other, wherein the respective key comprises a respective Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the respective content;
a search section, including one or more processors, configured to (i) receive a CPE address request message including a key identifying a target URI from a first CPE of a certain location of the plurality of locations and (ii) search the database to acquire an IP address of a second CPE corresponding to the key identifying the target URI; and
a response section, including one or more processors, configured to transmit the IP address of the second CPE acquired by the search section to the first CPE that is a transmission source of the CPE address request message.