摘要:
The present disclosure relates to broadcasting multiple packets at periodic intervals for receipt by other devices. A common device can transmit multiple beacon protocols simultaneously (i.e., an interleaving of different beacons), such that regardless of which protocol a receiving device supports, it may utilize advertisements from that common device (e.g., beacon). Thus, a single or common transmitting device may support multiple advertisements, such that the amount of hardware to be deployed in any network is reduced. Rather than deploying a device per beacon, a single device may be deployed and transmit multiple beacons.
摘要:
A network device may identify first interfaces used by the network device to communicate with other network devices. The network device may use second interfaces to communicate with multicast receiver devices that are different from the other network devices. The network device may store information that identifies the first interfaces used to communicate with the other network devices. The network device may receive a packet, and may determine that the packet includes a bidirectional forwarding detection message, associated with a bidirectional forwarding detection protocol, to be used to verify multicast connectivity with a multicast source device. The network device may identify the first interfaces based on the stored information and based on determining that the packet includes the bidirectional forwarding detection message, and may transmit the packet via the first interfaces without transmitting the packet via the second interfaces.
摘要:
Provided is a content reproduction device which enables a user watching or listening to a content on a given content reproduction device to discontinue the watching thereof or listening thereto and then easily resume the watching of the same content or listening thereto from a discontinued state on another content reproduction device. When reproduction of a content is discontinued, discontinued state information indicating a reproduction state of the content at a time point of the discontinuation is transmitted to a watching/listening history management server (20) and the discontinued state information stored in the watching/listening history management server (20) is received from the watching/listening history management server (20), and the reproduction of the content is started from a state determined based on the received discontinued state information.
摘要:
A method for managing data transmission comprising making a prescribed bandwidth on a shared network resource available to at least one requestor with a prescribed quality of service guarantee for a first time interval; transmitting data to or from the at least one requestor on the shared network resource during the first time interval; and releasing the shared network resource associated with the prescribed bandwidth at the expiration of the first time interval, if a request to make the prescribed bandwidth available for a second time interval is not received from the at least one requestor.
摘要:
A method of performing a network transaction at Layer 2 comprising the steps of (a) receiving at a network coordinator a Layer 2 request to perform a network transaction from a first node; (b) transmitting a first Layer 2 message from the network coordinator to at least one node connected to the network in response to the request; (c) receiving, at the network coordinator, a response to the first Layer 2 message from at least one node connected to the network, the response including network resource allocation data; (d) determining the capabilities of the network at the network coordinator based on the received response to the first Layer 2 message; and (e) allocating network resources to perform the network transaction if the network coordinator determines there are sufficient network resources to perform the transaction.
摘要:
A telecommunication network comprising a plurality of nodes including a content source (2) and at least one content receiver (3), the content source and the or each content receiver being connected via at least one switch node (4, 5, 6), and wherein the content source (2) is adapted to provide content that is associated with a multicast address to the at least one content receiver (3) using multicast communication. The network further comprises a content bandwidth indication generator node (3, 6, 7), the generator node being adapted to include an indication of the bandwidth requirement of the content supplied by the content source (2) along with the corresponding multicast address within a multicast protocol message (20, 60). At least one of the switch nodes (4, 5, 6) is adapted to extract said indication from the multicast protocol message and control the flow of content in response to said indication of the bandwidth requirement.