391 results about "Broadcast domain" patented technology

The invention relates to an apparatus 1 comprising a broadcast receiver circuit, an embedded antenna for receiving broadcast signals and a tuning circuit coupled between the antenna and the receiver circuit, which tuning circuit comprises a filter circuit coupled to ground, wherein the tuning circuit is designed to have a first resonance at a first frequency below a broadcast band of interest, and a second resonance at a second frequency above the broadcast band and wherein the tuning circuit comprises an amplifier with an output to the receiver circuit and with an input to the filter circuit, and wherein the tuning circuit is provided with a carrier to noise ratio (CNR) which is substantially fiat across the broadcast band.

The information available to a driver of a vehicle is greatly expanded using wireless communications (e.g., using Bluetooth wireless communication devices). In one embodiment, information regarding an adjacent vehicle such as a brake light, a turn light, speed, distance, direction, etc., is transmitted from one vehicle to a nearby or adjacent other vehicle. The received information is used in any appropriate manner, such as causing the receiving vehicle to change vehicle speed or brake, to turn to avoid a collision, etc. In a second embodiment, roadside wireless transceivers collect information regarding passing vehicles, and central database is compiled relating to a traffic conditions. The traffic condition information can be passed back to the passing vehicles for appropriate use, e.g., causing the driver to slow down, or even causing a navigation device in the receiving vehicle to manually prompt for or automatically recalculate a best route to an intended destination. In yet another embodiment, broadcast transmitters can be established at signs and other significant locations transmitting information to passing vehicles. The broadcast information may be as simple as indicating the existence of the sign, or depending upon the range of the particular wireless transmitter, the existence of a particular sign, bump in road, curve, etc., can be forewarned far in advance of when the driver will actually see the relevant object. Alternatively, the broadcast information may be quite detailed, e.g., containing a detailed itemization and directions to a large number of gas stations, restaurants, etc., reachable from a particular exit from a highway.

This invention provides for the use of an index message in a Cell Broadcast Service. An index message is considered to be a special type of Cell Broadcast message which contains general information about actual broadcast messages. The index message is transmitted in a predetermined logical S-BCCH subchannel, and contains information elements such as (a) message overviews or summaries for each cell broadcast message, (b) information concerning emergency messages, (c) information concerning the language used in different broadcast messages, (d) an alphanumeric broadcast domain operator name and a specific operator greeting, (e) information concerning changes in broadcast messages, and (f) information concerning subchannels.

A method and system for protecting a service available on a broadcast domain. A sub-domain is established within the broadcast domain. The sub-domain includes a group of nodes used to provide a communication path to the service. A primary sub-domain maintenance association and a back-up sub-domain maintenance association are monitored. The primary and sub-domain maintenance associations are a set of primary and back-up paths, respectively, representing connectivity between nodes acting as edge nodes in the sub-domain. A fault is detected within the primary sub-domain maintenance association and a switch to the back-up sub-domain maintenance association occurs.

A base station includes a scheduler configured to perform frequency scheduling for each subframe; a control channel generating unit configured to generate a control channel including common control information to be mapped to radio resources distributed across a system frequency band and specific control information to be mapped to one or more resource blocks allocated to each selected user device; and a transmission signal generating unit configured to generate a transmission signal by time-division-multiplexing the common control information and the specific control information according to scheduling information from the scheduler. The common control information includes a format indicator representing one of preset options that indicates the number of symbols occupied by the common control information in one subframe. The common control information includes information units with a predetermined data size. The number of the information units is less than or equal to a specified multiplicity included in broadcast information.

A geographical web browser allows a user to navigate a network application such as the Word Wide Web by physically navigating in geographical coordinates and roaming through coverage areas of wireless LANs, microcells, and other such local broadcast domains. A mobile unit communicates with a network server via an air interface that supports wireless packet data. The mobile unit receives a broadcast transmission from a local broadcast domain entity that uses a low power local wireless protocol. The transmission includes a data packet that includes an indication related to information content. A content-selective information filter then compares a content-based filter parameter with the indication in the packet and selectively passes information related to the packet when a match is identified. In response to the identified match, a user is notified and given the option to request the content to be coupled from the mobile unit to the network server.

The information available to a driver of a vehicle is greatly expanded using wireless communications (e.g., using Bluetooth wireless communication devices). In one embodiment, information regarding an adjacent vehicle such as a brake light, a turn light, speed, distance, direction, etc., is transmitted from one vehicle to a nearby or adjacent other vehicle. The received information is used in any appropriate manner, such as causing the receiving vehicle to change vehicle speed or brake, to turn to avoid a collision, etc. In a second embodiment, roadside wireless transceivers collect information regarding passing vehicles, and central database is compiled relating to a traffic conditions. The traffic condition information can be passed back to the passing vehicles for appropriate use, e.g., causing the driver to slow down, or even causing a navigation device in the receiving vehicle to manually prompt for or automatically recalculate a best route to an intended destination. In yet another embodiment, broadcast transmitters can be established at signs and other significant locations transmitting information to passing vehicles. The broadcast information may be as simple as indicating the existence of the sign, or depending upon the range of the particular wireless transmitter, the existence of a particular sign, bump in road, curve, etc., can be forewarned far in advance of when the driver will actually see the relevant object. Alternatively, the broadcast information may be quite detailed, e.g., containing a detailed itemization and directions to a large number of gas stations, restaurants, etc., reachable from a particular exit from a highway.

This invention provides for the use of an index message in a Cell Broadcast Service. An index message is considered to be a special type of Cell Broadcast message which contains general information about actual broadcast messages. The index message is transmitted in a predetermined logical S-BCCH subchannel, and contains information elements such as (a) message overviews or summaries for each cell broadcast message, (b) information concerning emergency messages, (c) information concerning the language used in different broadcast messages, (d) an alphanumeric broadcast domain operator name and a specific operator greeting, (e) information concerning changes in broadcast messages, and (f) information concerning subchannels.

Broadband data transmission systems and methods that provide point-to-multipoint broadcasting capability to implement Internet access and multimedia distribution services for a very large number of users. An exemplary system comprises a two-way communication link having at least one satellite, at least one user terminal that has two-way communication with the two-way communication link, and at least one gateway that has access to data and has two-way communication with the two-way communication link. The two-way communication link may comprise a low bandwidth two-way communication link, or a low bandwidth request link and high bandwidth data broadcast link. The high bandwidth link preferably broadcasts a wide area coverage beam to allows the requested information to be received by many terminals. The terminal and gateway may each include a cache. Software at the gateway operates to deliver requested data and related data to users using the user's request history and / or user profile. The requested (and related) data (such as a predetermined number of most-requested web pages) may be broadcast at predetermined intervals to simulate real-time broadcasts. Another exemplary system comprises a terrestrial communication link for communicating data requests, a satellite broadcast link for transmitting the requested data, at least one gateway having access to data that communicates with the terrestrial communication link and the satellite broadcast link, and at least one user terminal that communicates with the terrestrial communication link and the satellite broadcast link that caches the requested (and related) data transmitted by the satellite broadcast link. Broadband data transmission methods are also disclosed.

A broadcasting method and a broadcast signal receiving apparatus is provided wherein auxiliary information, such as video and audio data, for supplementing broadcast information presented through a broadcasting network in an interlocked manner can be watched and listed to by the viewer. Broadcast information received from a broadcasting network is temporarily stored in a storage means of a broadcast signal receiving apparatus and a recording medium for storing auxiliary information used as a supplement to the broadcast information is mounted on the broadcast signal receiving apparatus. The broadcast information and the auxiliary information are then played back in an interlocked manner with a predetermined timing. As a result, a function to present information which can not be accommodated in a broadcast frame and a parental function can be implemented.

The invention discloses a system and a method for managing a virtual network in a cloud computation data center, and relates to the technical field of network system structures and network communication protocols. The system comprises physical servers and a controller, the physical servers are connected with a core switching network of the data center, each physical server is provided with at least one switch supporting OpenFlow related protocols and is connected with the controller, and the controller builds the virtual network, maintains configuration of the virtual network and a mapping relation among the virtual network, a virtual broadcast domain and a local broadcast domain, and configures and controls the switches of the physical servers. By the aid of the system and the method, pressure on broadcasting and double-layer address tables and forwarding tables of the core switching network of the data center can be effectively reduced, large-scale management is facilitated, flows of different users can be effectively isolated, security is strengthened, and configuration of the virtual network of the data center can be quickly and flexibly changed along with dynamic distribution of virtual resources.

A method and system is provided for a virtual local network to span multiple loop free network topology domains. According to one aspect of the invention, a network contains at least two loop free network topology domains and a virtual local area network spanning at least a portion of each of the two domains. According to one aspect of the invention, a network architecture comprises a plurality of nodes connected by paths, a first physical broadcast domain and a second physical broadcast domain each comprising a separate subset of the plurality of nodes, and a logical broadcast domain comprising a node from each subset.

The present invention relates to method and system for providing data services to mobile device (25) via a digital radio broadcast channel, wherein data is encrypted and forwarded to a digital radio broadcast domain based on a conditional access scheme. The additional access scheme is based on existing concepts of SIM / IMSI definition and algorithms. The invention enables initial message coverage for developing countries and extends rural message coverage for huge area countries, where little mobile coverage is provided.

A P device interworks CE devices connected to the P device using different types of data links. The P device learns the address of a local CE device by monitoring the control messages, such as address resolution messages, originating from the local device. The P device may share the address of a local CE device with another local CE device by initiating a control message or responding to a control message issued by one of the local CE devices. This latter mechanism in effect hides the heterogeneous nature of the network.

An information interaction method and system for electronic cigarettes is provided in the present invention; the method comprises the following steps: at least one of the electronic cigarettes sending broadcast information containing electronic cigarette information of the one electronic cigarette to one or more of the other electronic cigarettes, and / or sending request information containing obtaining request for electronic cigarette information to one or more of the other electronic cigarettes, and / or sending response information which is generated to response request information; at least one of the electronic cigarettes receiving broadcast information, requesting information or responding information from one or more of the other electronic cigarettes. When implementing the present invention, the following advantageous effects can be achieved: it is convenient for users to exchange electronic cigarettes information and establish social intercourse; users can be helped to choose suitable electronic cigarettes for themselves; the uses can obtain security guarantee.

A technique for implementing VLANs across a service provider network involves establishing logical ports that have bindings to transport tunnels. The logical ports are then treated the same as physical ports in defining broadcast domains at particular service provider edge devices. Logical ports can be established for Layer 2 transport tunnels that use stacked VLAN tunneling and MPLS tunneling. Establishing a logical port that uses stacked VLAN tunneling involves binding a physical port and a stacked VLAN tunnel to the logical port. Establishing a logical port that uses MPLS tunneling involves binding an MPLS tunnel to a logical port. In one embodiment, the logical port is bound to a static MPLS tunnel and in another embodiment, the logical port is bound to a dynamic MPLS tunnel and the destination IP address of the destination service provider edge device.

A mechanism is provided by which a transport tree identifier can be generated using one or more identifiers for a multicast datastream. The transport tree identifier can then be used in the process of building a transport tree across a transport network. A transport network egress router can receive a request to join a multicast datastream from a downstream node outside of the transport network. The information contained in the join message that identifies the desired multicast datastream can be encoded in the transport tree identifier. The transport tree identifier can be related to one or more of a multicast group destination address, a multicast datastream source address, and a broadcast domain identifier.

A mobile communications system includes a plurality of mobile communications devices. A direct link communicates information between a communications network and a selected one of the plurality of mobile communications devices. A broadcast link simultaneously broadcasts information from the communications network intended to be receivable by the plurality of mobile communications devices.

Provided is a content classifying section 203 for classifying and bundling to-be-transmitted contents on the basis of any piece of information of media kind, IP address, port number and session identifier. A packet header compressing section 204 carries out header compression on the transmission packet. Due to this, because contents can be packet-transferred with efficiency and excellent error resistance by the use of a communication and broadcast network, it is possible to realize, even on the Internet for broadcast in a broadcast form, a quality broadcast free of image or sound discontinuity as the terrestrial-wave TV broadcast.

A wireless communication network uses a shared packet data channel to broadcast information intended for all or a subset of the mobile stations monitoring the shared channel, based on using an associated packet data control channel to identify which shared channel transmissions comprise broadcast information rather than mobile-specific packet data traffic. For example, in a 1xEV-DV wireless communication network, a base station system can be configured to send broadcast messages on a Forward Packet Data Channel (F-PDCH) based on identifying those broadcasts via an associated Forward Packet Data Control Channel (F-PDCCH). In one such embodiment, one or more Medium Access Control (MAC) IDs are designated as broadcast identifiers. Thus, the receipt of a broadcast MAC ID in one or more timeslots of the F-PDCCH by a mobile station indicates to that mobile station that the corresponding timeslot(s) on the F-PDCH carry broadcast information rather than mobile-specific packet data traffic.

Compute nodes of a parallel computer organized for collective operations via a network, each compute node having a receive buffer and establishing a topology for the network; selecting a schedule for a broadcast operation; depositing, by a root node of the topology, broadcast data in a target node's receive buffer, including performing a DMA operation with a well-known memory location for the target node's receive buffer; depositing, by the root node in a memory region designated for storing broadcast data length, a length of the broadcast data, including performing a DMA operation with a well-known memory location of the broadcast data length memory region; and triggering, by the root node, the target node to perform a next DMA operation, including depositing, in a memory region designated for receiving injection instructions for the target node, an instruction to inject the broadcast data into the receive buffer of a subsequent target node.

A network switch and a method of preventing an IP address collision is provided. When a new node tries to use an IP address, which is being used in one broadcast domain, it is possible to detect and prevent an IP address collision in real-time, disconnect only the new node which caused the IP address collision, and quickly resolve network environment to the original state that existed prior to the collision, in order to prevent communication breakdown without the use of an additional device.

A method of sending a packet from a source node to a destination node in the same broadcast domain. The packet is associated with a traffic flow directed from the source node to the destination node. The source node is connected with the destination node via a first and a second communication path. A criterion based on an attribute of the traffic flow is measured for each of the communication paths. One path is selected between the first and second communication paths based on the measured criterion and the selected communication path is assigned to the associated traffic flow. The packet is then sent via the selected communication path.

Methods and systems for sending a broadcast message in frequency hopping and other systems. Instead of sending a complete message separately to each device, a relatively small packet or “chirp” is sent. These chirps are either targeted at known devices or sent in a manner to sweep the RF band. Devices that hear the chirps get information about the channel and / or time that the broadcast data will be sent. These devices then listen for the broadcast data as instructed, e.g., at the specified time on the specified channel. A system may alternatively, or in addition, use a scheduled hopping sequence break as a broadcast moment. Such a broadcast moment can be scheduled to periodically interrupt the node hopping sequences so that, at such times, many or all nodes are scheduled to be on the same channel for potential broadcasts.

The invention discloses a multimedia live broadcast whistle-blowing method, terminal, server and system, and belongs to the technical field of information. The method comprises the steps that a whistle-blowing instruction is obtained, and media data are obtained from multimedia data broadcast in a media broadcast interface within the preset time period according to the whistle-blowing instruction; whistle-blowing information is determined according to the media data, wherein the whistle-blowing information at least comprises the media data and the broadcast information of the media data, and the broadcast information of the media data comprises the information identifying the source of the media data; the whistle-blowing information is uploaded to a whistle-blowing server. According to the multimedia live broadcast whistle-blowing method, due to the facts that the media data are obtained from the multimedia data broadcast in the media broadcast interface within the preset time period according to the whistle-blowing instruction, the whistle-blowing information determined according to the media data is uploaded to the whistle-blowing server, and the whistle-blowing server processes the whistle-blowing information, whistle-blowing information is rapidly uploaded, occupied network resources are reduced, and the supervision range of multimedia live broadcast is enlarged.

Systems, apparatus and methods for preparing assistance data in a location server from coverage report messages of one or more access points from a plurality of mobile devices are presented. Several mobile devices each collect information from and about one or more access points. This crowd-sourced information is sent from a mobile device to a location server and may include ranging information (such as RSSI or RTT) and / or broadcast information (such as broadcast position and / or transmit power level) and / or computed information (such as path loss). Using this crowd-sourced information, the location server may form assistance data for an assistance data database, which may later be tailored for and send to a specific mobile device.

The invention provides a real world living broadcast system, comprising a plurality of living broadcast content collecting devices and each living broadcast device collects the living broadcast information at current position and updates the collected living broadcast information to a content server, a plurality of content servers which are used for collecting the living broadcast information collected in-situ by the living broadcast content collecting devices, caches the living broadcast information, manages the living broadcast information and controls the access-in of the living broadcast content collecting devices on the content servers, a distribution server which is used for processing the service request of the terminal subscriber and transferring the living broadcast information to the terminal subscriber from the content servers, and a connecting network which is used for connecting the content servers with the distribution server so as to transmit the information between thecontent servers and the distribution server and distribute the living broadcast information to the terminal subscriber to the network.

A virtual computer system includes virtualization software, and one or more physical network interfaces for connecting to one or more computer networks. The virtualization software supports one or more virtual machines (VMs), and exports one or more virtual network interfaces to the VM(s) to enable the VM(s) to access the computer network(s) through the physical network interface(s). The virtualization software modifies and filters network data frames from the VM(s) and from the physical network interface(s) to restrict one or more VMs to one or more virtual local area networks (VLANs) that are implemented within a VLAN topology. Restricting a VM to a VLAN limits the broadcast domain to which the VM belongs, which may reduce security risks facing the VM. Implementing the VLAN functionality within the virtualization software provides the functionality to every VM in the computer system, without requiring every VM to provide the functionality.

A method of operating a switch for frames in a computer network uses one or more indicia of frame type designation found in the received frame to derive a virtual local area network (derived VLAN) value. Also, an indicia of the receiving port may be used in constructing the derived VLAN value. The switch then uses the derived VLAN value in making forwarding decisions. Broadcast domains in the computer network may then be controlled by forwarding in response to the derived VLAN value.

A system and method is provided for permitting a mobile device to connect to a broadcast station web site and to receive a broadcast station broadcast in response to selection of a bookmark. Selection of the bookmark results in a tuner on the mobile device being tuned to receive a broadcast while the mobile device substantially simultaneously connects to a web site for the broadcast station. The bookmark may be programmed by the user and may represent different broadcast stations according to parameters. Bookmarks may be displayed to the user based on geographical location information. Bookmarks may be created by scanning for available broadcasts at a geographical location. RDS information may supplement broadcast information and may be sent to the mobile device via CBS messages.