Patent ID: 9015346
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for treating traffic of a private device in a public network, wherein the private device is located behind a network address translation device having a public IPv4 address, the method comprising the steps of: in a network node of the public network, receiving an identification of a block of ports on the public IPv4 address indicating that the block of ports is reserved for the private device, wherein the block contains two or more ports; in the network node of the public network, receiving traffic addressed from the public IPv4 address on at least one port from the block of ports reserved for the private device; in the network node of the public network, identifying the received traffic as traffic of the private device; upon identifying that the received traffic is from the private device, in the network node of the public network, activating a rule related to the private device for applying a traffic treatment service to the traffic coming from the private device.