United States Patent 8,223,716 Ohba , et al. July 17, 2012
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Assisted proactive IP address acquisition
Abstract
The present invention relates to reducing the time required to provide an IP address to a mobile node by pro-actively obtaining IP addresses, through the use of PANA-assisted pro-active IP address acquisition, IKEv2-assisted proactive IP address acquisition, or by pro-active IP address acquisition using DHCP only.
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Inventors: Ohba; Yoshihiro (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), Lopez; Rafael Marin (Morcia, ES) Assignee: Toshiba America Research, Inc. (Piscataway, NJ) Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, NJ) Appl. No.: 11/567,134 Filed: December 5, 2006
