Patent ID: 7934001

Claim:
A method comprising: assigning a first identifier and a second identifier to a session between an access terminal and a first device of a wireless network, the first identifier being associated with the access terminal, the second identifier being associated with a communication path for the first device of the wireless network, and the second identifier comprising a portion of information and the first identifier comprising a same portion of the information; detecting a breach of the session between the access terminal and the first device of the wireless network; generating a reconstructed first identifier at least partly based on the portion of information of the second identifier; causing, based on the reconstructed first identifier, a new session to be established between the access terminal and the first device of the wireless network; incorporating into the first identifier information a reboot count corresponding to a number of times the first device of the wireless network was rebooted; extracting a reboot value from the second identifier included in a data packet received from a second device of the wireless network; comparing the reboot value to the reboot count; and determining that the first identifier was assigned before the first device was last rebooted if the reboot count is greater than the reboot value.