Patent ID: 8924518

Claim:
A method of converting Ethernet data from an Internet protocol version 4 format to an Internet protocol version 6 format, comprising: providing an Internet protocol conversion circuitry disposable within a first and a second Ethernet connector, and the Internet protocol conversion circuitry comprising a magnetic circuitry and a controller circuitry, the magnetic circuitry comprising at least one of an isolation transformer, a common mode choke, a termination resistor, a high voltage discharge capacitor, and a filter, and the controller circuitry comprising at least one of a microprocessor, an Ethernet controller, Ethernet controller with an ASIC, a memory, a nonvolatile memory, a flash memory, a voltage regulator, a voltage supervisory circuit, a crystal, a resistor, a termination resistor, a capacitor, and a ferrite bead; receiving Ethernet data, comprising at least one Internet protocol version 4 data packet, by the first Ethernet connector and storing the at least one Internet protocol version 4 format data packet in the memory; removing at least one Internet protocol version 4 header from the at least one Internet protocol version 4 data packet in the memory by way of the Internet protocol conversion circuitry, thereby providing at least one unheadered data packet; inserting at least one Internet protocol version 6 header in relation to the at least one unheadered data packet in the memory by way of the Internet protocol conversion circuitry, thereby providing at least one reheadered data packet; recalculating at least one necessary Internet protocol header field of the at least one reheadered data packet in the memory by way of the Internet protocol conversion circuitry, the at least one necessary Internet protocol header field comprising at least one of a traffic class and a flow label; configuring the first and second Ethernet connectors by way of the Internet protocol conversion circuitry operating via a set of instructions; and transmitting the at least one reheadered data packet as Ethernet data, comprising at least one Internet protocol version 6 data packet, by the second Ethernet connector, thereby providing at least one converted data packet.