Patent ID: 6754183
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: G01C,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A system for communicating between a sub-network and a primary network comprising:a sub-network in a vehicle, said sub-network having one or more communication devices, each said communication device having a corresponding IP address, wherein each of the communications devices is coupled to a transmission medium including a Java ring reader, wherein the sub-network further includes a plurality of network devices, and wherein the sub-network further includes a compute platform configured to run a Java virtual machine application; a proxy server having a corresponding IP address, wherein said proxy server is coupled to the primary network; wherein said sub-network is configured to select a first one of said communication devices, to communicate with said proxy server and the primary network via said selected communication device, and to notify said proxy server of said IP address of said selected communication device; and wherein in a first mode said sub-network is configured to identify said IP address of said proxy server as a return address of said sub-network.