Patent ID: 9479475
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for achieving seamless transition of IPv4 addresses to IPv6 addresses, the method comprising: deploying, by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), at least an IPv6 address holding an IPv4 address and the IPv6 address simultaneously for allocating at least the IPv4 address or the IPv6 address to at least one customer in the network, wherein the IPv6 address maintains an IPv4 address register holding the IPv4 address along with an IPv6 address register holding the IPv6 address, and a software library call available for the IPv4 address is configured to utilize the IPv6 address register; migrating at least an application, used by the customer, utilizing the software library call available for the IPv4 address to utilize the software library call available for the IPv6 address; enabling, after migration, transition of the IPv4 address to the IPv6 address and routing of the data and calls based on the transition achieved.