Abstract: A security system and service, which improves the performance of SECaaS services, is described. A security server system tracks the content that has successfully passed through its security modules and distributes this information to the end user client devices as hashlist information. The remote client devices can then safely bypass the cloud for a significant fraction of Web object requests by using information on a locally stored hashlist to validate Web objects.

Abstract: A security system and service, which improves the performance of SECaaS services, is described. A security server system tracks the content that has successfully passed through its security modules and distributes this information to the end user client devices as hashlist information. The remote client devices can then safely bypass the cloud for a significant fraction of Web object requests by using information on a locally stored hashlist to validate Web objects.

Abstract: An optical network terminal receives, from a user device associated with the optical network terminal, a call to a called party, and checks a table, which may be locally cached in the optical network terminal, for a network location of another optical network terminal associated with the called party. The device also establishes a connection with another user device associated with the other optical network terminal, based on the network location, and exchanges voice data with the other user device associated with the other optical network terminal via the connection.

Abstract: A system is provided for composition trust binding in a peer-to-peer network environment. The system includes: a service requestor (21) residing on a peer (22) in the network and able to invoke a service (23) residing on another peer (24) in the network. The service requestor is also able to communicate a composition trust binding to the peer hosting the service, where the composition trust binding i a set of rules that define a collection of allowable software components which may be invoked by the service. A validation agent (25) ensures that the service executes in accordance with the binding.

Abstract: An optical network terminal receives, from a user device associated with the optical network terminal, a call to a called party, and checks a table, which may be locally cached in the optical network terminal, for a network location of another optical network terminal associated with the called party. The device also establishes a connection with another user device associated with the other optical network terminal, based on the network location, and exchanges voice data with the other user device associated with the other optical network terminal via the connection.

Abstract: A service advertisement delivery system and method is useful in a data processing network. A broadcasting node receives service advertisements describing services offered by service providing network nodes. A datastore in communication with the broadcasting node stores a set of the service advertisements of the service providing network nodes. The broadcasting node broadcasts the set of service advertisements over a broadcast channel to service seeking network nodes receiving the advertisements over the broadcast channel.

Abstract: A process allowing communication between a java code and an executable software file which permits the java code to receive an access to the internal system resources of the user's computer. The java code is arranged to be configured as a server in the client's configuration, by means of the establishment of a server socket communication channel. Once established, that socket communication channel is used for allowing a full ordered, error-free communication between the java code and the local executable file, thereby allowing the java code to take profit of the internal system resources of the user's computer. Preferably, the java code is received by the user through an Internet/Intranet network as an applet which thus receives an effective and powerful access to the system resources of the user's machine.

Abstract: A peer-to-peer novel video streaming scheme is described in which each peer stores and streams videos to the requesting client peers. Each video is encoded into multiple descriptions and each description is placed on a different node. If a serving peer disconnects in the middle of a streaming session, the system searches for a replacement peer that stores the same video description and has sufficient uplink bandwidth. Employing multiple description coding in a peer-to-peer based network improves the robustness of the distributed streaming content in the event a serving peer is lost. Video quality can be maintained in the presence of server peers being lost. The video codec design and network policies have a significant effect on the streamed video quality. The system performance generally improves as the number of descriptions M for the video increases, which implies that a higher video quality can be obtained with the same network loading.

Abstract: A process allowing communication between a java code and an executable software file which permits the java code to receive an access to the internal system resources of the user's computer. The java code is arranged to be configured as a server in the client's configuration, by means of the establishment of a server socket communication channel. Once established, that socket communication channel is used for allowing a full ordered, error-free communication between the java code and the local executable file, thereby allowing the java code to take profit of the internal system resources of the user's computer. Preferably, the java code is received by the user through an Internet/Intranet network as an applet which thus receives an effective and powerful access to the system resources of the user's machine.