Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070192495
Filing Date: February 16, 2006
Inventors: Charl Marais
Assignee: SOFTWIRED AG
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/227000
View Prior Art for Claim 00002
The method of Claim 1, comprising the step of:
the gateway, on reconnection by a client library running on a client device that experienced an abrupt disconnection from the wireless network, reading the state of the client's connection/session identified by the received session identifier and recreating, on the client's behalf, the wireline connection with the core messaging system in the same precise state that resulted from the operations of the client application, prior to the abrupt disconnection.
Title IBM Lotus Mobile Connect - Product Documentation
Description
IBM has a product called Lotus Mobile Connect, previously version was called WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager. This product contains gateway with gatekeeper, session persistence (keeps connection alive - thus allowing to switch between connection types umts, gprs, UTP cable network, etc), device management, sets ip VPN, etc.. It looks like the patent is describing this product.
Patent/Application # US6308281
Description
Prior art describes bridging connections (e.g. wireless and wireline) including a session key (context) and ability to recover from disconnections.
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