Patent ID: 7701947

Claim:
A computer readable non-transitory storage medium for storing a computer program that associates a request for a virtual connection with a user account, the virtual connection request being initiated from a remote access port different from an access port previously associated with the account, the computer readable non-transitory storage medium comprising: a receiving code segment for receiving a signaling message requesting the virtual connection to be established from the remote access port, the signaling message comprising at least one field modified to include an address of the remote access port; an associating code segment for associating the virtual connection request with information from the account, the information indicating whether the requested virtual connection is permitted; and a registering code segment for retrieving the address of the remote access port from the at least one field and for registering the address of the remote access port in association with the account, the registering comprising substituting the address of the remote access port for an address corresponding to the access port previously associated with the account.