Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for adding captions to photographs. An apparatus for adding captions to photographs includes a medium for storing a photograph image. A microphone is provided for receiving user spoken words. A voice recognition system is coupled to the microphone for generating text unit instructions. A caption generation unit is coupled to the voice recognition system for storing a caption with the photograph image on said medium. Both a film camera system and a digital camera system are used for adding captions to photographs. In the film camera system, the caption is simultaneously stored with the photograph image on photographic film. In the digital camera system, the caption can be simultaneously stored with the photograph image on digital storage medium or can be added at an earlier time or a later time.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing communications in a communications network. The apparatus for implementing communications includes a system interface to the communications network. A scheduler schedules enqueued cells and enqueued frames to be transmitted. A segmenter segments frames and cells in into cells or frames applied to a media adaptation block for transmission in a selected one of multiple modes.

Abstract: A method and Gigabit Ethernet communications adapter are provided for implementing communications in a communications network. A transmission queue is defined of data to be transmitted. A transmission rate is set for the transmission queue. Data to be transmitted are enqueued on the transmission queue. The transmission queue can be subdivided into multiple priority queues, for example, using time wheels, and a transmission rate is set for each transmission queue.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for scheduling the transmission of cells of a plurality of data streams in a communications network. An earliest deadline first (EDF) scheduler is provided for scheduling the transmission of cells of a plurality of data streams in a communications network to ensure that the connection or data stream with the earliest deadline is transmitted first. Each of the multiple data streams has a delay bound or deadline. Data of each data stream is enqueued to a corresponding data cell queue. A timing wheel time slot based on an identified target transmission time for each data cell queue is calculated utilizing an addition of a maximum delay value. A move forward timing mechanism includes a scan forward feature to identify a succession of virtual connection or data stream cell queues for transmission. A multiple tier cell scheduler is provided that includes at least two scheduling timing wheels.