IP Library Granted Patent US 10,142,903
Granted Patent B2
US 10,142,903 · App. 15/371,288 · Granted Nov 27, 2018

Inter-domain handover method and system for user equipment and relay gateway device

Inventors: Yi-Hsiu Lee (Hsinchu, TW); Jen-Shun Yang (Hsinchu, TW); I-Hsing Tsai (Hsinchu, TW); Szu-Hsien Huang (Hsinchu, TW); Chui-Chu Cheng (Hsinchu, TW); Feng-Zhong Hsu (Hsinchu, TW)
Assignees: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
H04W36/18H04L61/103H04L61/6022H04W36/08H04W88/08H04W88/16
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Patent No.
US 10,142,903
App. No.
15/371,288
Granted
Nov 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A relay gateway device includes a processor and a storage, in which when a packet transmission is performed between a first mobile device and a second mobile device and the second mobile device switches from the relay gateway device to another, the IP address of the second mobile device changes from a former IP address to a current IP address. When the first mobile device transmits a first packet to the second mobile device in which the destination address of the first packet is the former IP address, the processor of the relay gateway device modifies the destination address of the first packet into the current IP address according to the former IP address and the current IP address of the second mobile device in a list of the storage and then transmits the first packet to the second mobile device, thereby achieving a seamless transmission during handover.

Claims (34)

1. An inter-domain handover system for mobile devices, comprising a first relay gateway device and a second relay gateway device directly or indirectly connected to the first relay gateway device, the first relay gateway device including a first processor and a first storage, the second relay gateway device including a second processor and a second storage, wherein a packet transmission is performed between a first mobile device and a second mobile device through the first relay gateway device, and the second mobile device switches from the first relay gateway device to the second relay gateway device; the inter-domain handover system performs an inter-domain handover method for mobile devices, the inter-domain handover method including:

the second processor determines that the second mobile device has joined the domain of the second relay gateway device;

the second processor broadcasts a complex information of the second mobile device, wherein the complex information includes an identification code and a current IP address, and

the first processor updates a first list of the first storage according to the complex information of the second mobile device,

wherein after the step in which the first processor updates a first list of the first storage according to the complex information of the second mobile device, the identification code, the current IP address and a former IP address of the second mobile device in the first list correspond to each other, and

wherein when the first mobile device transmits a first package to the second mobile device in which the destination address of the first package is the former IP address, the first processor modifies the destination address of the first packet from the former IP address into the current IP address according to the former IP address and the current IP address in the first list of the first storage, and then transmits the first packet to the second mobile device via the first relay gateway device and the second relay gateway device.

2. The inter-domain handover system according to claim 1 , wherein after the first processor updates the first list of the first storage according to the complex information of the second mobile device, the inter-domain handover method further includes:

the first processor transmits a feedback message to the second processor, wherein the feedback message includes the former IP address of the second mobile device; and

the second processor updates or establishes the complex information of the second mobile device into a second list of the second storage according to the feedback message, wherein the identification code, the current IP address and the former IP address in the second list correspond to each other.

3. The inter-domain handover system according to claim 1 , wherein after the second processor determines that the second mobile device has joined the domain of the second relay gateway device, the inter-domain handover method further includes: the second processor establishes the complex information of the second mobile device into a second list of the second storage.

4. The inter-domain handover system according to claim 3 , wherein the second processor determines that the destination address of the first packet is located under the domain of the second relay gateway device according to the current IP address of the second mobile device, and the second processor transmits the first packet directly to the second mobile device instead of the first relay gateway device.

5. The inter-domain handover system according to claim 1 , wherein the identification code of the second mobile device further includes a media access control address (MAC Address), an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI), or an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI).

6. The inter-domain handover system according to claim 1 , wherein when the second mobile device transmits a second packet to the first mobile device and the source address of the second packet is the current IP address, the first processor modifies the source address of the second packet from the current IP address into the former IP address and then transmits the second packet to the first mobile device.

7. An inter-domain handover method for mobile devices, which is performed on an inter-domain handover system for mobile devices, the inter-domain handover system including a first relay gateway device and a second relay gateway device directly or indirectly connected to the first relay gateway device, wherein a packet transmission is performed between a first mobile device and a second mobile device through the first relay gateway device, and the second mobile device switches from the first relay gateway device to the second relay gateway device, the inter-domain handover method comprising:

the second relay gateway determines that the second mobile device has joined the domain of the second relay gateway device;

the second relay gateway device broadcasts a complex information of the second mobile device, wherein the complex information includes an identification code and a current IP address; and

the first relay gateway device updates a first list of the relay gateway device according to the complex information of the second mobile device,

wherein the identification code, the current IP address, and a former IP address of the second mobile device in the first list correspond to each other, and when the first mobile device transmits a first packet to the second mobile device in which the destination address of the first packet is the former IP address, the first relay gateway device modifies the destination address of the first packet from the former IP address into the current IP address according to the former IP address and the current IP address in the first list, and then transmits the first packet to the second mobile device via the first relay gateway device and the second relay gateway device.

8. The inter-domain handover method according to claim 7 , wherein after the first relay gateway device updates the first list of the first relay gateway device according to the complex information of the second mobile device, the inter-domain handover method further includes:

the first relay gateway device transmits a feedback message to the second relay gateway device, wherein the feedback message includes the former IP address of the second mobile device; and

the second relay gateway device updates or establishes the complex information of the second mobile device into a second list according to the feedback message, wherein the identification code, the current IP address, and the former IP address in the second list correspond to each other.

9. The inter-domain handover method according to claim 7 , wherein after the second relay gateway device determines that the second mobile device has joined the domain of the second relay gateway device, the inter-domain handover method further includes:

the second relay gateway device establishes the complex information of the second mobile device into a second list of the second relay gateway device.

10. The inter-domain handover method according to claim 9 , wherein the second relay gateway device determines that the destination address of the first packet is located under the domain of the second relay gateway device according to the current IP address of the second mobile device, and the second relay gateway device transmits the first packet directly to the second mobile device instead of the first relay gateway device.

11. The inter-domain handover method according to claim 7 , wherein the identification code of the second mobile device further includes a media access control address (MAC Address), an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI), or an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI).

12. The inter-domain handover method according to claim 7 , wherein when the second mobile device transmits a second packet to the first mobile device and the source address of the second packet is the current IP address, the first relay gateway device modifies the source address of the second packet from the current IP address into the former IP address and then transmits the second packet to the first mobile device.

13. A relay gateway device, comprising:

a processor; and

a storage connected to the processor,

wherein when a packet transmission is performed between a first mobile device and a second mobile device through the relay gateway device, and the second mobile device switches from the relay gateway device to another relay gateway device, a list of the storage stores an identification code of the second mobile device, a former IP address of the second mobile device on the relay gateway device, and a current IP address of the second mobile device on the another relay gateway, wherein the identification code, the current IP address, and the former IP address correspond to each other, and

wherein when the first mobile device transmits a first packet to the second mobile device in which the destination address of the first packet is the former IP address, the processor modifies the destination address of the first packet from the former IP address into the current IP address according to the former IP address and the current IP address of the second mobile device in the list, and then transmits the first packet to the second mobile device via the relay gateway device and the another relay gateway device.

14. The relay gateway device according to claim 13 , wherein the identification code of the second mobile device further includes a media access control address (MAC Address), an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI), or an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI).

15. The relay gateway device according to claim 13 , wherein when the second mobile device transmits a second packet to the first mobile device and the source address of the second packet is the current IP address, the processor modifies the source address of the second packet from the current IP address into the former IP address and then transmits the second packet to the first mobile device.

16. The relay gateway device according to claim 13 , wherein when the packet transmission is performed between the first mobile device and the second mobile device and the second mobile device switches from the another relay gateway device to the relay gateway device, the processor deletes the current IP address of the second mobile device from the list.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 29, 2025
From: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
To: WNC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072255/0226 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 7, 2016
From: LEE, YI-HSIU; YANG, JEN-SHUN; TSAI, I-HSING; HUANG, SZU-HSIEN; CHENG, CHUI-CHU; HSU, FENG-ZHONG
To: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 040585/0153 →
Continuity (1)
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