DATA PACKET TRANSPORT AND DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A customer's server datagram request and/or customer field unit's datagram is wrapped with a header and footer that contains a defined hopping path with direction control. An IP Host stores predefined hopping paths to all of the customer's field units, and looks at the address of the customer's request packet to determine the correct hopping path. A communication device receives the customer's field unit's datagrams and adds a defined hopping path to send the datagram to the IP Host which removes the hopping path and sends the datagram to the customer server.

主权项

1. A system for transporting datapackets or datagrams to and from a customer server and a first geographically remote, data-collecting field unit that lies within a remote geographic region with multiple geographically proximate, data-collecting field units characterized by:
an IP host, geographically remote from the customer server, communicatively coupled to the customer server, and configured to:
receive from the customer server through a network a request datagram for specified data from the first geographically remote, data collecting, field unit;add to the request datagram a first predefined hopping path that includes the first geographically remote data collecting field unit and at least one of the other multiple geographically proximate, data-collecting field units to generate a data request packet; and send the data request packet to the first geographically remote data collecting field unit along the first predefined hopping path.