Patent ID: 9154571
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for use within a communication network, where the network comprises a local rendezvous system in which published data is published using a local publication identifier identifying the published data, the apparatus being configured to be coupled in use to an IP network and being further configured to: maintain a mapping in the apparatus between said local publication identifier identifying the published data and an overlaid network publication identifier also identifying the published data, wherein the overlaid network publication identifier is not an IP address and the local publication identifier is not an IP address; receive from a local host a first subscribe request including said specified local publication identifier; in response to receiving the first subscribe request, (i) determine the overlaid network publication identifier mapped to the specified local publication identifier and (ii) send a second subscribe request comprising said determined overlaid network publication identifier to a dissemination handler of an overlaid rendezvous system residing within the IP network; receive over said IP network data published with said overlaid network publication identifier; and route the received data to said local host.