摘要:
In a wireless network including a plurality of stations, one of said stations is a control station for transmitting a permission indication to the remaining stations of the network. The remaining ones of said stations have an active state and an inactive state during which the remaining stations do not transmit or receive messages. The remaining stations further have a first power mode in which they are fully in the active state and a second power mode in which they enter the active state only at predetermined times and remain in the active state under specified conditions and are otherwise in the inactive state. The remaining stations include a controller arranged for causing the remaining stations to enter the second power mode only in response to the permission indication of the control station. The control station includes a controller for managing communications to the remaining stations dependent on whether the remaining stations are in the first power mode or the second power mode.
摘要:
A method of encoding data with a means to distinguish between new data and incompletely erased old data when restoring said data from a magnetic tape storage device comprises: arranging a byte stream of user data into a plurality of track blocks; adding to each track block a track block header containing a write pass identifier; as said data is written to tape, the write pass identifier of the data already on tape is read and the Write pass identifier of the data being written to tape is incremented.
摘要:
A third-party call setup gateway (90) is provided for setting up bearer channels (60) through a switched telecommunications system, such as a PSTN, by controlling an associated switch (41). The call setup gateway (90) has an interface onto a computer network, such as the Internet, that is accessible to users of the telecommunications system. In a preferred arrangement, a user A wishing to place a call to user B gets the details of B's current telephone number from a 'phone page' (41) on B's website and then sends this telephone number together with A's own telephone number, to the gateway (90). The gateway (90) then commands the switch (41) to establish a call between A's telephone and B's telephone.