Donald Thomas Bennett

US Patent:

20050071475, Mar 31, 2005

Filed:

Sep 29, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/674214

Inventors:

Donald Bennett - Naperville IL, US
Gerard Polfer - Big Rock IL, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709227000

Abstract:

The Direct Internet Access system makes use of an LTP/UDP/IP connection to the Internet via a LTP Network Server and the existing Local Area Network or Wide Area Network of the cellular communication network. This system uses a Layer Tunneling Protocol which provides a virtual dial-up access to corporate gateways by extending the dial-up connection that is established between the mobile subscriber station and the Mobile Switching Center to the Internet or a corporate gateway over the Internet. The user has an Lconnection to an access concentrator in the Mobile Switching Center, which then tunnels individual Point-to-Point Protocol frames to the LTP Network Server, so that the packets can be processed separately from the location of the circuit termination. This means that the mobile subscriber station call connection can terminate at a local circuit concentrator in the Mobile Switching Center, eliminating possible long-distance charges, among other benefits.