Abstract: A method of transmitting a packet within a telecommunication network, wherein a total processing time is associated with the packet and modified by at least some network equipments as a function of a particular processing time and the network equipments process the packet as a function of the associated total processing time.

Abstract: The method is used in a router (10) to configure a routing path to an address in an IP network using a routing control unit (1) separate from the router (10).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of selecting multimedia data coding formats in a communications system having at least two terminals suitable for exchanging multimedia data. Each terminal has a set of coding formats listing the formats which it is capable of processing in reception and formats which it is capable of applying to multimedia data in transmission. Prior to any exchange of data between two terminals, each terminal sends its set of coding formats to the other terminal via a server. According to the invention, the server is connected to code format conversion means and, where necessary, it enlarges each set of coding formats received from a terminal as a function of the conversion means available to it, prior to forwarding the possibly enlarged set to the other terminal. In this way, the coding and decoding abilities of terminals in the system are enriched virtually, thereby reducing the number of calls that fail.

Abstract: A signaling router has means for receiving messages coming from terminals or from other signaling routers, and it further comprises means for correlating a new message with a previously received message, and for forwarding said new message to a signaling router associated with said previously received message.

Abstract: A communication service enabling events to be forwarded from at least one data producer to at least one data consumer, the service being characterized it that it comprises a distributor module and a set of filter modules, said distributor module possessing means for receiving said events and for forwarding them to said set of filter modules, and each filter module in said set having means for receiving said events, for filtering them in application of a respective filter mechanism, and for forwarding them to certain ones of said at least one data consumer.

Abstract: A precision cyclic position measurement transducer capable of giving an indication of the relative position of two movable transducer elements within one of a plurality of measurement cycles is combined with binary-coded and electrically coupled conductor patterns on those transducer elements so that unambiguous indication is given of one of the measurement cycles, the indication changing as the transducer position is changed from one measurement cycle to the next. The improved transducer gives an absolute indication of the relative position of the transducer elements measured in measurement cycles and the position within a measurement cycle regardless of changes in transducer position.