Abstract: A method and a computer program product for identifying the domains, selecting for each domain one domain-specific search engine and data source to be involved, generating the domain-specific subqueries for each selected search engine, defining a strategy for sending requests to each search engine and data source, and receiving, merging and ranking results. The result of the multi-domain query is a list of combinations, where every combination consists of a tuple of data, each relative to one of the domains of the query; such data is present in the results returned either by search engines or by data sources. The method provides the combinations having the highest combination score, as computed by a monotone aggregation function over the combinations.

Abstract: A method and a computer program product for identifying the domains, selecting for each domain one domain-specific search engine and data source to be involved, generating the domain-specific subqueries for each selected search engine, defining a strategy for sending requests to each search engine and data source, and receiving, merging and ranking results. The result of the multi-domain query is a list of combinations, where every combination consists of a tuple of data, each relative to one of the domains of the query; such data is present in the results returned either by search engines or by data sources. The method provides the combinations having the highest combination score, as computed by a monotone aggregation function over the combinations.

Abstract: A method of demultiplexing client data from a constant bit rate (CBR) optical client serial link into lower bit-rate CBR signals for transmitting over a plurality of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical channels. The method comprises mapping blocks of bytes from a client frame received from the optical client serial link into respective CBR transport frames for transmitting over the respective WDM optical channels and such that the number of bytes in the client frame is the same as the number of bytes in the plurality of respective CBR transport frames. Modifying a number of non-payload bytes from the client frame to carry CBR transport frame control data in each said CBR transport frame.