Patent ID: 8452976

Claim:
A method for maintaining device application connectivity, comprising: assigning an auxiliary address in a first device, the auxiliary address being representative of a second device, the first device having a first device address, and the second device having a second device address different than the first device address; and accessing, by at least one application of the first device, the second device by converting data having the auxiliary address as a destination address and to be transmitted to the second device to have the second device address as the destination address; converting data having the second device address as an origin address and received from the second device to have the auxiliary address as the origin address; assigning a second device auxiliary address in a second device, the second device auxiliary address being representative of the first device; and accessing, by at least one application of the second device, the first device by converting data having the second device auxiliary address as a destination address and to be transmitted to the first device to have the first device address as the destination address; and converting data having the first device address as an origin address and received from the first device to have the second device auxiliary address as the origin address.