Patent ID: 6246670
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
In a method for communicating packet data during a communication session between a selected communication station and a wireless communication station by way of a communication network, the wireless communication station identified during the communication session by a dynamically-assigned address, the dynamically-assigned address selected from an address list, an improvement of a method for preventing misrouting of the data subsequent to abnormal session end by the wireless communication station and formation of a half-open connection, said method comprising the steps of:determining whether the communication session has ended abnormally; andin response to a determination that the communication session has ended abnormally, updating the address list with an indication that the dynamically-assigned address used temporarily to identify the wireless communication station during the communication session is unavailable for reassignation to identify another wireless communication station for a selected address-unavailable time period.