Patent ID: 7237025
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for communicating user identification information over a communications network, comprising: a first network interface operable to establish a communication session with a network user, the first network interface operable to assign the network user a network locator address for the communication session from a range of network locator addresses available to the first network interface for allocation, the first network interface operable to authenticate an identity of the network user; a second network interface operable to process a request sent by the user in the communication session, the request being forwarded by the first network interface and includes the network locator address of the network user, the second network interface operable to determine if the identity of the network user associated with the network locator address is stored in a local memory of the second network interface, the second network interface operable to obtain additional information about the network user in response to the identity of the network user being stored in the local memory, the second network interface operable to process the request according to the additional information wherein the second network interface is operable to send a query according to the network locator address to the first network interface upon determining that there is no network user identity associated with the network locator address of the network user stored in the local memory, the first network interface operable to provide the identity of the network user to the second network interface in response to the query.