Patent ID: 9497794
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing data communication to a vehicle, the method comprising: at a device associated with the vehicle: establishing a communications session between the device associated with the vehicle and a further device, the communications session having an associated session identifier identifying the device associated with the vehicle; at a first intermediate device not aboard the vehicle: receiving a first data packet from the device associated with said vehicle, said first data packet comprising a first identifier identifying said device associated with the vehicle; modifying said first identifier to identify said first intermediate device; forwarding said modified first data packet from a first intermediate device to the further device; at a second intermediate device not aboard the vehicle: receiving a second data packet from the device associated with the vehicle, the second data packet comprising a second identifier identifying the device associated with the vehicle; modifying the second identifier to identify the second intermediate device; forwarding the modified second data packet from the second intermediate device to the further device; wherein said first data packet and said second data packet comprise said session identifier and said modified first data packet and said modified second data packet comprise said session identifier.