Abstract: An intelligent network service control point, which is connected with a plurality of switching systems in a transport layer network over a common channel signaling network and with an Internet protocol network through a service control gateway, stores information for indicating that a first terminal is being connected to the Internet in a user information management table when the service control point receives a call waiting service request from the first terminal connected with the transport layer network. When one of said switching systems notifies that the first terminal is called from a second terminal, the service control point sends an incoming notification message to the first terminal through the gateway by referring the user information management table.

Abstract: A server 3b for controlling a gateway 2 connecting a transport layer and an IP network has the function of accessing a service control point (SCP) 4 via a service control gateway 1a. A server 3 for controlling terminals on the IP network stores information of correspondence between telephone number of a terminal and the IP address. When a signal including number information which requires an access to the SCP is received from a terminal 11 managed by the server 3a, an interrogation request is multicasted to the other servers each having the function of accessing the SCP. A server which has sent a response signal accesses the SCP via the service control gateway to provide an IN service process.

Abstract: Disclosed is a packet-switched communication apparatus (DNS proxy server) receiving and forwarding messages which are used to obtain an address corresponding to a domain name assigned to a device connected to a network from the domain name and to obtain such a domain name from the address. The communication apparatus comprises mapping retaining means for retaining mappings between network-dependent parts of addresses which are used in a first network and address translators; address translator selecting means for selecting an address translators, based on an address included in a received packet; address obtaining means for obtaining a substitutive address to replace the address included in the received packet from the selected address translator; and address replacement means for replacing the address included in the received packet by using the obtained substitutive address.

Abstract: Due to the mobility of mobile node devices including for example a laptop computer used on a work network and also on a home network with different home addresses, a mobile node (MN) home address and HA (home agent) address may need to be dynamically changed when using prefix communication functions and HA address discovery functions so methods for manually setting the IPsec SA security for encryption between the MN and HA are not practical in this environment. The current Mobile IPv6 protocol also has no function allowing recognition of the MN itself.

Abstract: Disclosed is a communication method allowing MN (mobile nodes) to acquire a home address in a visited network. A communication system comprises a home network installed with a home agent for holding mobile terminal location information and, a visited network installed with a radio communications device for communicating with that mobile terminal, and gateway equipment in the visited network for forming an interface with the home network. The radio communication device contains an access request transfer means for forwarding access requests from a mobile terminal of the visited network to the gateway equipment, and the gateway equipment makes an acquisition request to the home agent for an identifier of that mobile terminal, and forwards that acquired identifier to that mobile terminal.

Abstract: A mobile terminal having a packet communication function according to a mobile IP and a communication route optimizing function includes a session controller for setting a session between terminals in accordance with a session control message of a protocol different from the mobile IP. When a session control message from the other party is received in a visited mobile IP network, the session controller executes optimization of a communication route to the other party by the communication route optimizing function before transmitting a response for the received message.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for mobile communication utilizing load balancing. When a home agent (HA) consists of one or more servers with each server being assigned a Mobile IPv6 Home-Agents Anycast Address, a nearby router does not store the link-layer addresses with respect to the Anycast addresses of the servers in its neighbor cache. Consequently, load balancing between or among the servers could not be performed. To solve this problem, in one example, an HA is provided that comprises a representative HA and distributed HAs. The representative HA is assigned an Anycast Address. The representative HA includes a collecting device configured to collect HA lists and load information from the distributed HAs. The representative HA dynamically creates a HA list and sends the HA list to a mobile node (MN). The MN registers its current location with an HA from the HA list included in a Home Agent Address Discovery Reply message. The load on the HA can then be shared by the servers constituting the HA.

Abstract: A packet sent in a mobile IP communication between different regions passes through a particular address translation unit, so that the communication route cannot be optimized. The packet cannot be delivered to a mobile node not having a fixed home address. To overcome the difficulties, the address translation unit includes a function to process the mobile IPv6 protocol. The mobile node includes a function to dynamically acquire a home address. A first network and a second network each identify the mobile node by a SIP (session initiation protocol) identifier. The mobile node acquires a home address on the second network and registers a corresponding relation between the identifiers and the home address thereof. A terminal on the second network acquires the home address of the mobile node from information of the mobile node registered to the SIP server according to a SIP procedure.

Abstract: Since the Mobile IP is defined under the assumption that a mobile node roams between networks conforming to the same communications protocols, mobile communications between IPv4 and IPv6 are not possible. Further, a translation of the location registration messages also requires translating the format between different protocol layers. To solve this problem, a mobile proxy apparatus 2 is provided between a home network 1a and a foreign network 1b governed by different communications protocols. The mobile proxy apparatus 2 has a DNS-ALG function, a translator function and a Mobile IP function, and, by combining these functions, performs address translation and format translation on Mobile IP messages and user packets. The MN4 has Mobile IPv4 and Mobile IPv6 functions and executes communication suitable for the communications protocol governing the network to which it moves.

Abstract: An address translator includes an SIP message detecting function. Upon detection of an SIP message, the address translator sends the SIP message to an SIP address translator. The SIP address translator extracts addresses for translation, and makes a query to the address translator. The SIP address translator translates an IP address included in the SIP message, using translation information of the address translator. Thus, an SIP communication is accomplished between terminals belonging to different regions in association of the address translator and the SIP address translator.

Abstract: A translator includes a unit for communication with a DNS-ALG. The DNS-ALG detects a DNS query to a destination terminal, and performs once translation to IPv6. The DNS-ALG translates a destination temporary IPv6 address, in which a real address of IPv4 acquired from a DNS server of the destination terminal is added with a virtual IPv6 prefix, to a destination temporary IPv4. The IPv6-based DNS-ALG cooperates with the translator to permit alleviation of processing load on the DNS-ALG and reduction in capacity of a translation table of large capacity. A technique is disclosed which, with the above construction, can permit mutual connection among a plurality of VPN's without exchanging the existing VPN's.

Abstract: An IPv6 mobile packet communication network in which mobile VPN service can be provided without having to use a mobile tunnel. A control signal for enabling packet data transmission and reception is sent from a mobile terminal to a gateway node. Using destination-of-connection information contained in the control signal, the gateway node checks whether mobile VPN service is requested or not. Upon detection of a mobile VPN service request, the gateway node returns IP address information of the gateway node to the mobile terminal via a subscriber node. The mobile terminal then assembles an IPv6 header (210) and an IPv6 routing header (220) so that packet data will be unexceptionally transferred through the gateway node.

Abstract: A trigger is armed to a predetermined detection point (DP) of a basic call state model controlled for each call by a switching system so that a service control point (SCP) can be unconditionally activated. The SCP stores service control information for each time band in such a manner as to correspond to each user. When a first control signal is received from the switching system, the DP which is determined by the service control information is notified to the switching system and the switching system arms the trigger to this DP. When the state of the call shifts to a specific DP to which the trigger is armed because a called party is busy or does not answer, for example, the switching system sends a second control signal to the SCP, and the SCP notifies a terminating terminal equipment determined by the service control information in response to the second control signal.