MAPPING CONNECTED DEVICES IN A HOME AREA NETWORK TO IP ADDRESSES IN A LOCAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

Networks with a plurality of independent nodes are useful when the nodes can communicate with one another and with nodes and resources outside the network. The present disclosure addresses ways to encapsulate packets as they move from a sender to a receiver, and also addresses ways for speeding up messages between nodes by orderly queuing and processing of messages. The present disclosure also includes techniques for mapping nodes in a home area network to IP addresses in a local area network.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
connecting a plurality of devices in a local area network to a gateway, each device having an address that is not addressable outside the local area network; connecting the gateway to an Internet; and providing a host address in the gateway for each of the plurality of devices in the local area network, wherein each of the plurality of devices is separately addressable from outside the local area network by the host address.