102 results about "Software switch" patented technology

The invention discloses a method and a system for audio frequency data stream input / output software switching without a break in operation system, wherein, the operation system consists of a local physical audio card, a short distance wireless communication module and an audio frequency switching module. When the short distance wireless communication module sets up wireless audio frequency transferring channel, the audio frequency switching module outputs the audio frequency data stream output by the audio frequency application routine to wireless audio frequency device via the wireless audio frequency transferring channel, and inputs the audio frequency data stream input by the wireless audio frequency device to the audio frequency application routine via the wireless audio frequency transferring channel, when the short distance wireless communication module cut the wireless audio frequency transferring channel, the audio frequency switching module automatically outputs the audio frequency data stream output by the audio frequency application routine to the wire audio frequency device via local physical audio card, and inputs the audio frequency data stream input by the wire audio frequency device to the audio frequency application routine via the local physical audio card.

Some embodiments provide a set of one or more network controllers that communicates with a wide range of devices, ranging from switches to appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, etc. The set of network controllers communicates with such devices to connect them to its managed virtual networks. The set of network controllers can define each virtual network through software switches and / or software appliances. To extend the control beyond software network elements, some embodiments implement a database server on each dedicated hardware. The set of network controllers accesses the database server to send management data. The hardware then translates the management data to connect to a managed virtual network.

A PBX system using an unmodified personal computer as the host server and using expansion slots to couple one or more switch cards to the system bus, and, optionally including a network interface card to couple the PBX system to other client computers running telephony enabled applications to control the PBX via a local area network. The switch card(s) are each coupled to a chain of one or more port expansion units that do not consume expansion slots. Each PEU contains a DSP and a microcontroller, an FPGA and port interface circuitry to interface to POTS CO lines, extension telephone lines, T1 lines or PRI lines. The personal computer is programmed with a PBX process that controls operations of the overall system and may also be programmed with conventional voice mail applications or integrated voice response and other applications to implement various telephony functions such as recording voice mail or prompt callers to input DTMF tones indicating what they want to do. Each chain of PEUs is coupled to the switch card and the PBX process by a TDMA bus and a packet switched bus. Distributed processing by the DSPs and microcontrollers in the PEUs to do tone generation, tone recognition, and a host of other functions offloads much of the work from the host. The packet switched bus enables easy handling of packetized data in IP packets or other packetized data.

For a host that executes one or more guest virtual machines (GVMs), some embodiments provide a novel virtualization architecture for utilizing a firewall service virtual machine (SVM) on the host to check the packets sent by and / or received for the GVMs. In some embodiments, the GVMs connect to a software forwarding element (e.g., a software switch) that executes on the host to connect to each other and to other devices operating outside of the host. Instead of connecting the firewall SVM to the host's software forwarding element that connects its GVMs, the virtualization architecture of some embodiments provides an SVM interface (SVMI) through which the firewall SVM can be accessed to check the packets sent by and / or received for the GVMs.

A terminal is configured to switch from an unlocked mode in which a first set of user interactions can be made through a user interface to effect certain functions, to a partial lock mode in which a different set of user interactions are made available to the user in relation to the same, or substantially similar, displayed content. Switching does not cause the currently-displayed content to entirely disappear, as in a conventional transition to a lock mode, but rather the same or substantially the same content continues to be displayed. Switching between the modes can take place in response to manual selection, for example using a hardware or software switch, or can take place automatically in response to one or more sensors of the apparatus detecting a predetermined operating condition, e.g. the user being in motion.