Global Patent Index - EP 1389379 A2

EP 1389379 A2 20040218 - DATA STREAM FILTERING APPARATUS & METHOD

Title (en)

DATA STREAM FILTERING APPARATUS & METHOD

Title (de)

VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR FILTERUNG EINES DATENSTROMS

Title (fr)

APPAREIL ET PROCEDE DE FILTRAGE DE FLOTS DE DONNEES

Publication

EP 1389379 A2 20040218 (EN)

Application

EP 02722499 A 20020513

Priority

  • GB 0202115 W 20020513
  • US 29094801 P 20010514
  • US 10787602 A 20020327

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO02093830A2] A method and apparatus for filtering data packets in a shared-medium or point-to-multipoint communications network. A filter unit is sent a data packet carrying a filter tag value in a packet addressed to the filter unit. The value is stored in the filter unit and subsequently received packets not addressed to the filter unit itself are forwarded only if they carry the stored filter tag. An embodiment of particular interest applies the method to Ethernet frames over a telecommunications access network (including optical or wireless networks), and uses the VLAN tag field to carry the filter tag information.

IPC 1-7

H04L 12/46; H04L 12/18

IPC 8 full level

H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/44 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H04L 9/40 (2022.05); H04L 69/22 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 02093830A2

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 02093830 A2 20021121; WO 02093830 A3 20030703; AU 2002253378 A1 20021125; CA 2447130 A1 20021121; EP 1389379 A2 20040218; JP 2004525585 A 20040819; JP 2011078135 A 20110414; JP 2013153526 A 20130808; JP 5294529 B2 20130918; JP 5295273 B2 20130918; JP 5576959 B2 20140820

DOCDB simple family (application)

GB 0202115 W 20020513; AU 2002253378 A 20020513; CA 2447130 A 20020513; EP 02722499 A 20020513; JP 2002590581 A 20020513; JP 2011000641 A 20110105; JP 2013077544 A 20130403