Patent ID: 7139840
Filing Date: 2006-11-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. In a first data communications device coupling a first network and a second network, a method for processing messages to be transferred from the first network to the second network, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message to be transferred between a client device coupled to the first network and a server device coupled to the second network; determining that the message is associated with a connection that is related to a second data communications device also coupling the first network and the second network, the first data communications device and the second data communications device sharing a network address on the first network; and processing the message to maintain the connection to the client device on the first network and to at least one server device on the second network, processing further including receiving a connection vector from the second data communications device, the connection vector containing information from the second data communications device related to the connection associated with the message, the step of processing further comprising: