Patent ID: 8565190

Claim:
In a mobile device configured to communicate with one or more other devices over a network via one or more wireless access points, a method for facilitating traversal of a network address translator (NAT), the method comprising: estimating a direction of travel for the mobile device; using the estimated direction of travel to predict one or more wireless access points that the mobile device is likely to encounter; and a) determining information regarding behavior of one or more NATs associated with the predicted one or more wireless access points that the mobile device is likely to encounter with the mobile device; and storing the information in such a way that the information is retrievable by one or more other devices or using the information to traverse one or more of the NATs; or b) retrieving information regarding behavior of one or more NATs associated with the predicted one or more wireless access points that the mobile device is likely to encounter and using the information to traverse one or more of the NATs; or c) both a) and b).