72 results about "Network discovery" patented technology

The Internet can be configured to provide communications to a large number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. An example non-transitory, machine readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, direct a processor to: cause a device to connect to a network of a decentralized database, discover a namespace of a node of the decentralized database, create a shared database partition in response to being accepted by the node, advertise a service to the decentralized database; and route data of a service between a private database partition and the shared database partition

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for discovery, by a user connected to a first network, of an edge application server (EAS) associated with a second network. In some aspects, techniques described herein provide a shared EAS discovery function (EASDF), which allows users connected to different home networks to discover EASs across a plurality of networks. Some techniques described herein provide communication between EASDFs of different networks. Thus, a user connected to a first network can discover an EAS of a second network, which enables sharing of EASs across networks. Furthermore, techniques described herein provide communication between a UE connected to a first network and an edge data network (EDN) (such as an EAS hosted by the EDN) of a second network, such as by establishing a connection between a user plane function of the first network associated with the UE and a network entity of the second network.

The invention provides a method and a system for realizing cross-network equipment networking in a distributed soft bus, and belongs to the field of network communication. Comprising the following steps: monitoring a cross-network port online message by at least one proxy node, and triggering cross-network discovery; at least one agent node triggers networking between the agent node and other agent nodes and networking between the agent node and a subordinate leaf node of the agent node, and authentication between the agent nodes and authentication between the agent nodes and the leaf nodes are completed respectively; after equipment networking is completed, cross-network data synchronization is started, leaf node information under a home terminal agent node is synchronized to an opposite terminal agent node, opposite terminal agent node information is synchronized to a home terminal leaf node, and leaf node information under the opposite terminal agent node is synchronized to a home terminal leaf node; and the proxy node stores information and affiliation of the proxy node and the leaf node. Through cross-network discovery, equipment authentication and cross-network data synchronization, equipment in a heterogeneous network can be networked and interconnected safely and efficiently.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus and system that support discovery of a network supporting a localized service. A method for network discovery performed by user equipment in a telecommunications network includes initiating the network discovery based on a trigger event, receiving broadcast information comprising an indication indicating availability of at least one network supporting a localized service, constructing a list of available networks supporting the localized service, and selecting a first network from the list of available networks. The selected network may be a network other than the home network of the user equipment that provides localized services at a particular time and / or location.

There is provided a method performed by a user equipment, UE, for allowing the UE to use a localized service in a hosting network, the method comprising: obtaining configuration information, the configuration information containing a list of one or more preferred hosting networks for the localized service; determining one or more available networks; from the determined one or more available networks, identifying one or more hosting networks on the list of the UE, human-readable information, the human-readable information being based on the identified one or more hosting networks; receiving a user input indicative of a user of the UE selecting a hosting network of the identified one or more hosting networks; and establishing a network connection with the selected hosting network.

A user equipment may receive a discovery signal broadcast by a non-terrestrial radio node. The user equipment may determine a coverage level based on the discovery signal and may transmit the coverage level and other coverage level information in a discovery signal coverage level report to a terrestrial radio node. The terrestrial node may receive coverage level information from another terrestrial node. The terrestrial node may transmit an expected coverage level, based on coverage level information corresponding to the non-terrestrial node, to the user equipment in an expected coverage level report. The non-terrestrial node may halt transmission of the discovery signal during a discovery signal deactivation period. The user equipment may use the expected coverage level, and other information, received in the expected coverage level report to communicate with the non-terrestrial node during the deactivation period.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for supporting edge data network discovery. One apparatus receives a first request from a function in a mobile communication network, the first request including a UE ID and a UE network address. The apparatus may determine whether the UE is located in a first service area based at least in part on a UE location and forward a DNS request to a first DNS server associated with the first service area based at least in part on a determination that the UE is located in the first service area. The apparatus may further receive a DNS reply and transmit a second request to a policy function in the mobile communication network based at least in part on a determination that the DNS reply includes a first IP address.

Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an information processing method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. The information processing method, which is executed by a sensing function network entity, may comprise: determining a candidate executor of a sensing service, wherein the candidate executor comprises an expected executor of the sensing service and / or an alternative executor discovered by a network; and determining a target executor of the sensing service according to the candidate executor.

Disclosure are techniques for allocating aggregation devices in a lawful intercept system. In an embodiment, a method includes maintaining a list of point of interception aggregation (PAG) functions in a network function repository function (NRF) of a cellular network upon instantiation of the PAG functions; receiving a lawful intercept (LI) request; querying the NRF to determine a respective PAG function; and associating a point of interception (POI) function with the respective PAG function.

Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an information processing method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. The information processing method, which is executed by a sensing function network entity, may comprise: determining a candidate executor of a sensing service, wherein the candidate executor comprises an expected executor of the sensing service and / or an alternative executor discovered by a network; and determining a target executor of the sensing service according to the candidate executor.

Disclosure are techniques for allocating aggregation devices in a lawful intercept system. In an embodiment, a method includes maintaining a list of point of interception aggregation (PAG) functions in a network function repository function (NRF) of a cellular network upon instantiation of the PAG functions; receiving a lawful intercept (LI) request; querying the NRF to determine a respective PAG function; and associating a point of interception (POI) function with the respective PAG function.

There is provided a method performed by a user equipment, UE, for allowing the UE to use a localized service in a hosting network, the method comprising: receiving, via a first network connection with a serving network, configuration information, the configuration information specifying the serving network and including a traffic routing policy rule comprising a traffic descriptor for identifying traffic of the localized service to be routed via the hosting network; detecting that a traffic flow matches the traffic routing policy rule; responsive to detecting that the traffic flow matches the traffic routing policy rule, selecting the hosting network; and establishing a second network connection with the hosting network.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; a clock; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: advertising via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) a capability as a precision timing protocol (PTP) master clock through an Internet Protocol (IP) / Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, wherein the advertising includes an IP address of the device; receiving a unicast signaling mechanism from a PTP client node in the network; and sending clock messages to the PTP client node responsive to accepting the PTP client node. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A method includes receiving, from an agent, information regarding one or more processes associated with one or more devices of a network, determining one or more discovery patterns based on the one or more processes, where the one or more discovery patterns are useable to discover one or more software applications executing or present on the one or more devices, transmitting one or more commands indicative of the one or more discovery patterns to the agent, receiving, from the agent, additional information associated with the one or more software applications based on execution of the one or more commands by the agent, and storing the additional information in a database.

The invention relates to a network discovery method, a first device, a second device, a chip, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product, a computer program and a communication system. The network discovery method comprises the following steps: a first device sends a discovery request on a first channel; wherein the discovery request is used for indicating or requesting a second device on the first channel to send discovery request reply information, and the discovery request reply information comprises network deployment information. According to the embodiment of the invention, energy consumed by network discovery can be saved.

This invention provides a power line carrier intelligent distribution network method, device, and handheld terminal. The distribution network method includes the following processes: S1, network discovery to obtain a list of all node IDs; S2, synchronous broadcast phase, the master control node polls and broadcasts; S3, node execution process: when acting as a broadcast source, it sends a probe signal; when acting as a listener, it records the signal quality to a local list; S4, distributed voting, where each node autonomously selects the node with the best signal as the cluster head; S5, cluster head reporting, where all nodes report the selected cluster head ID to the master control; S6, global decision, where the master control counts all reported cluster head IDs and announces the node with the most votes as the final gateway. This invention utilizes the existing power line network as a data transmission carrier, automatically senses the line environment, and adaptively forms a network. Simultaneously, through point-to-point NFC interaction between the handheld terminal and the device, it achieves zero-configuration, accurate, and reliable parameter writing and identity authentication.

Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate discovery and remote configuration of content for playback via a multimedia playback network are disclosed. An example method includes facilitating identification of multimedia content being played, the identification including at least one of a content identifier associated with the content and the content itself. An example method includes relaying at least one of the content identifier and the content to a playback system located remotely from a location of the multimedia content playback, at least one of the content identifier and the content remotely added for playback at the playback system.

The invention provides a control system of a mobile radio station, which is characterized in that a starting state machine is arranged in an ad hoc network and network access management module, the starting state machine is triggered to execute a channel scanning mechanism and a network discovery mechanism according to a power-on instruction, and networking state updating of the starting state machine is triggered according to scanning and discovery results; corresponding channel connection and networking operation are executed according to the networking state; the talkback and multicast control module is used for managing communication sessions among network nodes, creating and managing a plurality of independent audio and video multicast groups, and dynamically adjusting time slot distribution or code word distribution of each multicast group according to the network load condition; and the link information synchronization module is used for collecting, processing and synchronizing link state information among the nodes in the network, and broadcasting link update information to the nodes in the network in a multicast mode. According to the invention, the network access time of the mobile equipment can be obviously shortened, and multimedia communication of large-scale nodes can be effectively supported in a same-frequency environment.

The invention discloses a network access control method and system for a multi-band wireless local area network, and belongs to the technical field of wireless communication. The method comprises: on a first frequency band, an access point sends a probe response frame carrying a neighbor report element to a station device, the element comprising target beacon transmission time TBTT offset or target wake-up time TWT offset information of the access point on a second frequency band, and access permission information; and the site equipment calculates accurate scanning starting time based on the offset information, and executes a controlled access process according to the access permission information. According to the invention, by constructing a double-layer architecture of an auxiliary transfer layer and a target service layer and utilizing a cross-band accurate time sequence calibration and authority control mechanism, the problems of low discovery efficiency, high scanning power consumption, serious channel competition conflict, uneven load and the like of a 6GHz band network in the prior art are solved; and the access efficiency, the resource utilization rate and the user experience of the multi-band network are remarkably improved.

The application provides a causal network discovery system based on reinforcement learning, takes biomolecules as variables, obtains observation data of the biomolecules, and filters possible parent variables of the variables according to the data to obtain a sparse graph after initial neighborhood selection; uses a graph attention network to extract embedded features of each biomolecule from the observation data of the biomolecules and the sparse graph after the initial neighborhood selection; calculates a weight vector of all biomolecules according to the embedded features of each biomolecule, samples on the weight vector in a loop, and sequentially sorts the extracted variables from back to front; calculates a reward for the sorting according to a scoring function, updates parameters of each network under a reinforcement learning framework according to the reward, and guides generation of variable sorting with a higher reward according to the updated parameters; selects variables for the sorting with the highest reward to obtain a final biomolecular causal regulation network; and the application improves the explainability of a causal graph search process and thus improves the accuracy of causal structure discovery.

A network discovery method includes: a first device transmits a discovery request on a first channel. The discovery request is used for indicating or requesting a second device on the first channel to transmit discovery request response information, and the discovery request response information includes network deployment information.

The invention discloses an industrial topology network discovery method and device. According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, the accuracy of network topology discovery is improved, the types of equipment such as a switch, a common host and a printer can be identified, the method can better adapt to an industrial actual complex network environment, and the connectivity characteristic between system equipment can be more completely reflected. Besides, the design supports an SCnet protocol, a specific controller can be identified, and detection of main equipment (APL field equipment, an APL field switch and an APL power switch) of the Ethernet-APL connected under the controller is supported.

A dashboard and report widget layout with versioning functionality for multiple devices and location displays addressing a complex role-based matrix and data set input classifications. The present invention may add a testing module for selecting different shared versions of report widgets for a more complete development, testing and deploy life cycle. The present invention also includes network discovery and monitoring, and our data model includes device and location linked to user tokens and tags to track user activity. This allows for browser to database user tagging and tracking allowing for front end to back-end audits and allow for more fine grain access controls.

The invention discloses an industrial control network management and fault alarm system, method and device and a medium. The system is composed of an application function layer and a data storage layer. And the application function layer comprises a topological graph module, an alarm management module, a report management module and a visual display module. The system can perform centralized management on various network devices, and masters the conditions of the network devices in real time. And when a network fault is detected, alarm information is sent to a user. According to a network topological graph, the system can locate the specific position of a network fault, generate a statistical report and a chart of operation state and fault analysis, and display the statistical report and the chart in a graphical mode to realize dynamic interaction. According to the system disclosed by the invention, by uniformly managing industrial-grade manageable equipment of various brands and models, the complexity of equipment management is reduced, and the operation and maintenance efficiency is improved. Meanwhile, based on an intelligent topology function, hybrid network discovery and topological graph generation of various devices are supported, so that the network structure is clear and visible, and management and maintenance are facilitated.

Example embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for triggering of device inventory discovery. The system may electronically listen to one or more event streaming data sources for identification information about new devices on the network. In response to receiving identification information about a new device on the network resulting from the listening, the system triggers a separate network discovery tool to electronically interrogate the new device over the network using the identification information to obtain additional information about the new device. Based on the triggering of the network discovery tool, the system receives the additional information from the network discovery tool about the new device on the network. Then, based on the additional information received from the network discovery tool about the new device on the network, the system may electronically reference an inventory of devices on the network or existing information regarding devices expected to be on the network to take further action.

Various embodiments disclose techniques for time-multiplexing multiple listening schedules and physical layer modes that include a first node listening, using a first physical layer mode, for a first network discovery signal; in response to not detecting the first network discovery signal, listening, using a second physical layer mode, for a second network discovery signal; and in response to detecting the second network discovery signal transmitted by a second node using the second physical layer mode, establishing a connection with the second node using the second physical layer mode.

The present disclosure describes a point-to-multipoint communication system having a service provider system and one or more subscriber devices. The one or more subscriber devices include multiple physical layer (PHY) devices that can be used for upstream direction and / or downstream direction transfer of information to and / or from the service provider system. The one or more subscriber devices receive subscriber device configuration information from the service provider system indicating which of these multiple PHY devices are to be used for the upstream direction and / or the downstream direction transfer of the information to and / or from the service provider system. In some situations, the subscriber device configuration information identifies various types of information, such as video, audio, and / or data to provide some examples, to be transferred in the upstream direction and / or the downstream direction and / or one or more PHY devices to be used for transferring the various types of information.

A method and apparatus for discovering and displaying a graphical representation of a plurality of network devices connected to a communication network comprises a control network module coupled to the plurality of network devices. A first component of a control network module captures attribute data from the network devices. A second component of the control network module constructs a switch data table identifying a media access control address for each port of a communication network switch associated with each of the plurality of network devices. The second component uses the attribute data and the switch data table to construct a neighbor data table for the plurality of network devices connected to the communication network. A third component of the control network module uses the neighbor data table to construct a neighboring device table and build the graphical representation of the communication network on a display device.

A method and apparatus for discovering and displaying a graphical representation of a plurality of network devices connected to a communication network comprises a control network module coupled to the plurality of network devices. A first component of a control network module captures attribute data from the network devices. A second component of the control network module constructs a switch data table identifying a media access control address for each port of a communication network switch associated with each of the plurality of network devices. The second component uses the attribute data and the switch data table to construct a neighbor data table for the plurality of network devices connected to the communication network. A third component of the control network module uses the neighbor data table to construct a neighboring device table and build the graphical representation of the communication network on a display device.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for meta-stable material discovery. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining data defining macroscopic properties for an initial material; generating a set of precursor materials, comprising: generating a simulated sample of the initial material through computational simulation; and identifying precursor materials within the simulated sample based on microscopic properties of regions within the simulated sample; for each precursor material: generating a simulated sample of an optimized precursor material through a computational simulation altering the microscopic properties of the precursor material to optimize a macroscopic property of the precursor material; and determining one or more quantities characterizing the simulated sample of the optimized precursor material.