ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,936, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Stateless protocol translation" was invented by John Jason Brzozowski (Schwenksville, Pa.) and Joseph Pryszlak (Lafayette Hill, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of the methods and systems presented relate to performing stateless address translation between IPv4 capable devices to IPv6 capable networks and devices. Stateless address translation may form a new IPv6 addresses by combining the IPv4 address of a device with an IPv6 prefix address assigned to the translator. The translation may also combine the IPv4 destination address ...