IP device, management server, and network system
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US ยท United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- PANASONIC CORP
- Publication Date
- 2005-07-14
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable ยท inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to an IP device which can register access data in a management server by being connected to a router and assigned with a port number for port forwarding, a management server which registers this access data and provides address data of this IP device to a terminal that accesses via a wide area network, and a network system comprising these.
[0002] ADSL and CATV for constant connection to a wide area network such as the Internet have spread on a full scale, and broadband routers have widely spread. However, with the current IP protocol IPv4, the absolute number of global IP addresses is insufficient, so that the shortage of global IP addresses is covered by using the NAT (Network Address Translation) function and the port forwarding function (static IP masquerade). This NAT function converts a local IP address of a LAN-side device into a global IP address of the WAN side of a router when the LAN-side device accesses the...