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The present invention can be used to facilitate the integration of wireless capability provided by wireless access points into an enterprise computer network. A gateway server is interposed between wireless access points and protected networks to provide security and integration functions, for example, authentication, access control, link privacy, link integrity, and bandwidth metering in various embodiments. Use of such a gateway server allows substantial control to be gained over network access even with the use of relatively simple access points. In general, such a gateway server receives a request to access the protected network. An authentication subsystem of the gateway server authenticates the user, preferably by accessing an external authentication server and returns a role to the authenticated user. An access controller in the gateway server provides differential access to the protected network based on the user's assigned role. A multiple gateway servers can be connected together to form a mesh network architecture.

A method for allocating bandwidth in a communications environment is provided that includes receiving one or more data streams associated with one or more subscribers at a voice gateway. One or more algorithms included in the voice gateway are executed that are associated with traffic management of the data streams in order to generate a designated bandwidth value associated with one or more of the data streams. The designated bandwidth value is assigned to one or more of the data streams based on one or more of the algorithms that use an aggregation of one or more activity characteristics associated with a selected one or more of the subscribers.

A factory-prepared preterminated and pre-connectorized fiber optic distribution cable having at least one mid-span access location for providing access to a plurality of preterminated optical fibers pre-connectorized with a multi-fiber connector is provided. Also provided is a method of forming a pre-connectorized fiber optic distribution cable by terminating and pre-connectorizing a predetermined number of the plurality of optical fibers of the cable to create a pre-connectorized mid-span access location. The fiber optic distribution cable provides a low profile mid-span access location that is sufficiently flexible to be installed through relatively small-diameter buried conduits and over aerial installation sheave wheels and pulleys without violating the minimum bend radius of the cable or the optical fibers. A protective encapsulant protects and seals the mid-span access location during cable reeling, unreeling, installation and until the access location is needed for interconnecting a connectorized fiber optic drop or branch cable.

The present invention includes novel techniques, apparatus, and systems for optical WDM communications. Various wavelocker apparatus and methods are disclosed that measure the frequency offsets between signal lasers and reference lasers. The measured offsets are used to adjust the signal laser frequencies to meet their target frequencies. The absolute accuracy of the reference laser frequency is improved by measuring the absorption of the reference laser by a gas cell with known fixed absorption lines versus the reference laser frequency. Apparatus and methods are disclosed to cover scenarios in which the reference laser polarization is aligned with the signal lasers, as well as those in which the reference laser polarization is not aligned with the signal lasers. The wavelocker apparatus may or may not be located at the same network site as the signal lasers.

A panel array antenna has a waveguide network coupling an input feed to a plurality of primary coupling cavities. Each of the primary coupling cavities is provided with four output ports, each of the output ports coupled to a horn radiator. The waveguide network is provided on a second side of an input layer and a first side of a first intermediate layer. The primary coupling cavities are provided on a second side of the first intermediate layer and the output ports provided on a first side of an output layer, each of the output ports in communication with one of the horn radiators. The horn radiators are provided as an array of horn radiators on a second side of the output layer. Additional layers, such as a second intermediate layer and / or slot layer, may also be applied, for example to further simplify the waveguide network and / or rotate the polarization.

A method of controlling fluid flow in a fluid network system by means of a plurality of fluid machines. The disclosure provides a simple empirical method of identifying network characteristics of the fluid network system used for providing the required fluid flow rate in the fluid network system utilizing minimal fluid machine power. The method includes the steps of determining a relation between a change in fluid machine speed and a corresponding change in fluid flow rate for each of the plurality of fluid machines empirically; determining a minimum total fluid machine power which provides a minimum required flow rate in the fluid network system based on a constraint involving the relation between the fluid flow rate and the corresponding fluid machine speed, and controlling a speed of the plurality of fluid machines such that the minimum total fluid machine power in the fluid network system is attained.

An embodiment of an apparatus that facilitates network security and traffic monitoring for input network traffic includes a plurality of microcode controlled state machines, each of which includes a computation kernel. A plurality of rules applied to a network traffic segment are distributed across the computation kernels. Each of the computation kernels includes condition logic configured by microcode stored in an associated control store to evaluate a unique configured rule in the microcode to produce an associated output. A distribution circuit routes the network traffic segment to each of the plurality of microcode controlled state machines. An aggregation circuit generates a decision on which forwarding of the network traffic segment is based, where the decision is a logical combination of the associated output of each of the computation kernels.

In one aspect the invention provides an optical circuit enclosure enclosing at least one optical circuit or optical circuit component; the enclosure comprises: a tray type container containing at least one optical circuit or optical circuit component; a tray type closure member closing the container; the closure member containing at least one further optical circuit component on an external side thereof for optically connecting the enclosed component to an external optical circuit; and sealing means providing a moisture resistant seal between the container and the closure member.

This invention addresses a method of whereby a cellular base station can scan the radio band to identify radio channels that are not in use, then claim those un-used radio channels for use to transmit and receive radio signals. A plurality of such radio base station could then comprise a cellular radio network, which channel planning and frequency re-use has become autonomous and self organizing. The present disclosure aims to further expand the utility and function of such self organizing cellular networks by including a user interface to the base station by which the operator can define the radio spectrum boundaries that the base station is authorized to operate within and to further set operational rules for the use of sub-sections of that defined spectral boundary.

The intelligent dispatcher for group controlled lifts based on image recognizing technology includes one central dispatching computer for group controlled lifts and with one dispatching control strategy module for the optimized control of the lifts in the building, visual car sensors for acquiring the passenger flow information, and omnibearing visual sensors for acquiring the waiting passenger information, with the visual car sensors and the omnibearing visual sensors being connected to the central dispatching computer. The central computer includes also a lift passenger flow calculating module, and a running mode recognizing module to divide different lift group running modes, except its dispatching control strategy module for selecting dispatching control strategy fitting different running modes. The present invention can detect real-time passenger flow information and has precise group control dispatching.

The present invention is a four layer architecture that includes reusable components that can be used in varied operating environments and with varied network devices. The architecture includes an operating system dependent layer, an operating system independent layer, a media independent layer, and a media dependent layer. The operating system dependent layer can vary for differing operating system. In contrast, the operating system independent layer is identical or substantially similar for differing operating systems. Similarly, the media independent layer is identical or substantially similar for different network devices (e.g., a family or group of network devices). The media dependent layer can vary according to differing and varied network devices.

Methods and apparatus for encoding a number of small dynamic values over an n-bit field. Also methods and apparatus allowing for the stateless extraction of separate sequences from repetitions of a single field whereby to communicate more than one signal at once.

The present invention provides a system and apparatus for a mobile CS user to access an IMS network and a registration method for accessing. The network under the present invention comprises an IMS network for providing IMS services and a CS access network. The network contains a Register Proxy Function (RPF) entity, which comprises a first interface for communicating with the IMS network and a second interface for communicating with the CS access network. The RPF entity is adapted to map a CS registration event which is originated by the mobile CS user through the second interface to an IMS registration event, and initiate registration to the IMS network through the first interface on behalf of the mobile CS user. The technical solution under the present invention enables a mobile CS user to be registered to an IMS network practicably so that the CS user can enjoy rich IMS services.

A method in a wireless telecommunication system using code division multiple access technology, which system comprises a telecommunication switching center, a transmitter and a receiver, in which method the telecommunication switching center defines an identifier for the transmitter on the basis of the location of the transmitter and the transmitter defines a traffic channel identifier for the radio link traffic channel between said transmitter and said receiver on the basis of the location of the receiver. In the system, the channels of the radio link between the transmitter and the receiver are distinguished from each other by code sequences, and the code sequences used are defined according to the location information of the transmitter and the receiver. The definition of the location information of the transmitter and the receiver is performed by means of a satellite positioning system.

Methods are described for analyzing access list subsumption in routing devices of a computer network and for identifying computer network integrity violations, by producing structured data that includes stored router names and access lists that include elements with address / mask pairs, or patterns used to filter data into and out of a routing device, respectively; determining whether access lists in the structured data include elements in which a first element in the access list has a more general or equal address / mask pair, or pattern, respectively, than a second or subsequent element, or pattern; and storing in electronic memory a report of elements or a list of patterns, respectively, in which a first element or pattern is more general than or equal to a second or subsequent element or pattern.

An apparatus is described that facilitates network security and network traffic monitoring through processing of network traffic in accordance with provisioned rules and policies. The apparatus includes a set of microcode controlled state machines, each of which includes a computation kernel operating in accordance with microcode stored in a control store. A distribution circuit routes individual network traffic segments derived from input network traffic to the set of microcode controlled state machines, so that at least one of the microcode controlled state machines applies a rule encoded in the microcode to the individual network traffic segments to produce modification instructions. A circuit performs a modification of the input network traffic based on the modification instructions from the at least one microcode controlled state machine to produce output network traffic. Advantageously, the apparatus provides an architectural framework well suited to a low cost, high speed, robust implementation of flexible, advanced network security and monitoring features, traffic management, and integration of devices within a system.

An apparatus is described that facilitates network security and network traffic monitoring through processing of network traffic in accordance with provisioned rules and policies. The apparatus includes a set of microcode controlled state machines, each of which applies one or more rules to input network traffic. A distribution circuit routes individual network traffic segments derived from input network traffic to the set of microcode controlled state machines, so that each individual segment is processed in accordance with microcode stored in an associated control store. Each microcode controlled state machine includes a computation kernel operating in accordance with the microcode. An aggregation circuit routes the resulting processed individual network traffic segments in accordance with an output routing policy to produce output network traffic corresponding to the original input network traffic. Advantageously, the apparatus provides an architectural framework well suited to a low cost, high speed, robust implementation of flexible, advanced network security features and network traffic analysis.

The invention discloses an elevator inner-brute force device based on image and voice recognizing technology, which comprises the following parts: video sensor, voice receiver and monitor central computer to monitor elevator, wherein the video sensor and voice receiver connects monitor center computer through wireless network equipment, which contains display mode to display real-time elevator video data, the video sensor connects monitor central computer through wireless network exchanging equipment, which is warless LAN center, the computer contains microprocessor with image reading mode, image variation calculating mode, connecting area calculating mode, judging mode in the elevator to judge whether the accident occurs.

The invention discloses an elevator safeguard device based on image recognizing technology, which comprises the following parts: video sensor on the top of elevator wagon, monitor center computer, display mode to connect display device, wherein the video sensor connects wireless data of monitor center computer through wireless network exchanging equipment, which is the center of LAN in the building, the monitor computer contains safeguard microprocessor, which analyzes trapped person in the elevator through video information and detects accident of elevator.

Ultrasound imaging systems and methods are described that include a cableless front end having a UltraWideBand transceiver and a beamformer that transmit ultrasound data to a back end physically separated from the front end, with the back end having a UltraWideBand transceiver for receiving ultrasound data from the front end UltraWideBand transceiver via a peer-to-peer communication protocol. The back end unit can also receive and transmit commands to and from the front end unit to select an image mode and has a signal processor and scan converter that can convert ultrasound data into image data for display. An input device in the front end allows the operator to selectively display ultrasound data or patient data on an auxiliary worn display or the nearest local display.

The invention discloses a transmission line oscillation positioning system based on micro inertial measurement combination. The transmission line oscillation positioning system comprises a monitoring center and a pole and tower monitoring host machine which are connected with each other, wherein the pole and tower monitoring host machine is wirelessly connected with at least two wireless inertialsensor nodes; and each wireless inertial sensor node comprises a triaxial acceleration sensor and a triaxial gyroscope. By the method for positioning by adopting the system, the wireless inertial sensor nodes acquire acceleration values and state space angles of a lead wire monitoring point in three directions; the monitoring center processes and analyzes the data of each monitoring point by adopting algorithms, such as Fourier transformation, a least square method, digital filtering, Kalman filtering, matrix coordinate transformation, frequency domain integral operation so as to fit to acquire an oscillation trace of a whole line, and corrects the oscillation line according to a digital model of a relation between an oscillation characteristic value and a micro meteorological condition; therefore, the precision of oscillation monitoring is improved and the most direct and intuitive monitoring of transmission line oscillation can be realized.

A method of changing channels of a first device in a wireless network, which includes a first coordinator and at least one device, comprises searching whether another channel other than a first channel which is currently used in the wireless network is available, changing the first channel to a second channel among at least one or more available channels as a result of the searching step, and transmitting data to a second device or receiving data from the second device through the second channel.

The present invention provides an Energy Management System which can be configured to automatically switch peripheral appliances on or off by detecting master appliances being in standby state, even though these appliances are located far away from each other in a premise, or even in other premises. The system is also capable of detecting whether the included appliances are plugged or unplugged to facilitate simple and efficient management of appliance power consumption for the sake of energy saving. In one embodiment, it also provides a detachable, battery-powered wireless sub-system, supporting dual operation modes, to improve wireless coverage of the system.

The present invention includes novel techniques, apparatus, and systems for optical WDM communications. Tunable lasers are employed to generate subcarrier frequencies representing subchannels of an ITU channel to which client signals can be mapped. Client circuits can be divided and combined before being mapped, independent of one another, to individual subchannels within and across ITU channels. Subchannels may be independently routed to a single subchannel receiver filter, such that each subchannel detected at the receiver may come from a different source location. Network architectures and subchannel transponders, muxponders and crossponders are disclosed, and techniques are employed (at the subchannel level / layer), to facilitate the desired optical routing, switching, concatenation and protection of client circuits mapped to these subchannels across the nodes of a WDM network. Subchannel hopping may also be used to increase the optical network security.

In a real-time distributed control system in which a plurality of network controllers are connected, a middleware module in each control unit executes starting of application modules and calling RT communication processing according to starting order information in application configuration information. RT communication service sends and receives messages between the application modules corresponding to the calling. The application configuration information and the messages are generated by an information processor based on user defined information, and transmitted to each of the units. A network driver executes network communication using a network controller which stores sending and receiving messages. A network driver priority manager determines priority of processing of the network driver corresponding to priorities of sent and received messages, and a scheduler executes processing of the network driver according to the priority of the processing of the network driver.

A panel array antenna has a waveguide network coupling an input feed to a plurality of primary coupling cavities. Each of the primary coupling cavities is provided with four output ports, each of the output ports coupled to a horn radiator. The waveguide network is provided on a second side of an input layer and a first side of a first intermediate layer. The primary coupling cavities are provided on a second side of the first intermediate layer and the output ports provided on a first side of an output layer, each of the output ports in communication with one of the horn radiators. The horn radiators are provided as an array of horn radiators on a second side of the output layer. Additional layers, such as a second intermediate layer and / or slot layer, may also be applied, for example to further simplify the waveguide network and / or rotate the polarization.

A system and method for consistent authentication and security mechanism to enable a client device to easily roam from one network to another without requiring the client to manually change network configurations is disclosed. In one embodiment, a client device listens for a “beacon frame” broadcast from a Wi-Fi access point. The beacon frame identifies the basic service set identifier (BSSID) of the access point. A tamper-resistant token, or client key, installed at the client device stores a set of authentication parameters, e.g., cryptographic keys, for each Wi-Fi network the client is permitted to access. Each set of authentication parameters is associated with a particular BSSID. Using the BSSID received from the access point, the client device identifies and implements the appropriate set of authentication parameters necessary to authenticate the client device according to an authentication process generally accepted by all the Wi-Fi networks potentially servicing the client.

The present invention discloses a method, a system, and a node for node interconnection on a content delivery network. This content delivery network includes a first-level CDN node that is formed of a first CDN media server and a first CDN content storage and is configured to provide content for a user, and a second-level CDN node that is formed of a second CDN media server and a second CDN content storage and interconnects with the first-level CDN node, where the first CDN media server accesses the content in the second CDN content storage by using an IP-layer storage access protocol. The networking is simplified and the content access efficiency and the resource utilization are improved by using the technical solutions of node interconnection on the content delivery network provided in the present invention.

The invention relates to a fiber grating distributed strain sensor and a strain monitoring method thereof, which are characterized in that an erbium-doped fiber amplifier is added into an optical fiber fading cavity to form an active fading cavity, and an optical pulse fading sequence is obtained, so the positioning accuracy of submillimeter-magnitude spatial length measurement can be realized; and a wavelength of a tunable laser is in one-to-one correspondence with positioning data of fiber grating bragg reflection space by taking a linear chirped fiber grating or a uniform fiber grating as a sensing device, and the corresponding local strain capacity is demodulated by positioning the variable quantity of a local bragg reflection wavelength to realize distributed strain sensing. In the fiber grating distributed strain sensor, the spatial resolution ratio is improved to a submillimeter magnitude by a direct time domain measurement method, and the fiber grating distributed strain sensor has a compact structure and simple algorithm, can perform on-line monitor in real time and can be used for networking, so that the fiber grating distributed strain sensor has the large application space in the field of optical fiber sensing.