Abstract: In a method for ranking companies providing goods and services in a marketplace, sources of information about the companies are identified and parametrisized according to the information given in the sources. For all parameters, scores are determined for each company and the aggregated scores of a company are applied for computing a rank value of the company. Uses in online searchable databases or web services open to end users searching company information.

Abstract: A system and method for real-time data transmission through data communication networks are disclosed. The system and the method allow for real time communication between applications located in different internal networks protected by firewalls by means of representing the applications by proxies and establishing TCP channels towards an intermediate proxy server localized outside the firewalls. A set of parameters residing in the server determines i.a. the number of required TCP channels based on the ratio of measured bandwidth between the data flow directions.

Abstract: A system and method for real-time data transmission through data communication networks are disclosed. The system and the method allow for real time communication between applications located in different internal networks protected by firewalls by means of representing the applications by proxies and establishing TCP channels towards an intermediate proxy server localized outside the firewalls. A set of parameters residing in the server determines i.a. the number of required TCP channels based on the ratio of measured bandwidth between the data flow directions.

Abstract: An arrangement and method for equipment remote control according to a predetermined user profile. Controllable equipment is provided with a first wireless communication device. A user identity badge is provided with a second wireless communication device for communication, when in-range, with the first wireless communication device. A mobile communication terminal in communication with an Internet Protocol (IP) network, and provided with a third wireless communication device, communicates, when in-range, with the second wireless communication device. User and equipment identities are communicated to a user profile server connected to the IP network, and a user profile is returned to the equipment which is configured accordingly.

Abstract: In a telecommunication system, adapted to provide subscriber related services, a layered architecture including on a service layer a network side service executor and a user terminal service handler is employed. A call is triggered through a user interface provided by the service handler, which conveys a call set-up request and information to the service executor. The service executor communicates directly with a corresponding service executor at a service layer of a destination system and exchanges service information to detect a service interaction problem. A requested call can be established by other signalling and media handler functions when no essential service interaction problem is detected.

Abstract: An arrangement for real-time data transmission through data communication networks is disclosed. The arrangement allows for real-time communication between applications located in different internal networks protected by firewalls by means of representing the applications by proxies and establishing TCP channels towards an intermediate proxy server localized outside the firewalls. A set of parameters residing in the server determines i.a. the number of required TCP channels based on the ratio of measured bandwidth between the data flow directions.

Abstract: A multimedia surveillance arrangement comprising a surveillance sensor adapted to communicate by a standard communication protocol media representing at least one sensed parameter according, a plurality of networks interconnected by media gateways and at least one network controller, and a surveillance receiver adapted to receive all or part of said media. The network controller also serves as endpoint for media from the surveillance sensor, is adapted to interact with said received media, is responsive to information contained in the received media, and is adapted to communicate an event message and/or all or part of said received media on basis of said information. The multimedia network controller ca be a SIP server or H.323 Gatekeeper, adapted to interact with said surveillance media, for generating an event message.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement for distributing and dispatching traffic in a network, especially H.323 generated traffic, which arrangement comprises one or more gatekeepers, here designated as so-called external or real gatekeepers, and for the purpose of utilizing such real gatekeepers in a far more efficient and cost saving manner, and also for avoiding reconfiguration of endpoints depending on which gatekeepers with which they want to communicate, the present invention suggests a solution characterized by the introduction of one or more internal gatekeepers, here also designated as so-called internal lightweight gatekeepers, each such internal gatekeeper basically understanding any message used by any endpoint when registering to a real gatekeeper.

Abstract: In a telecommunication system, adapted to provide subscriber related services, a layered architecture including on a service layer a network side service executor and a user terminal service handler is employed. A call is triggered through a user interface provided by the service handler, which conveys a call set-up request and information to the service executor. The service executor communicates directly with a corresponding service executor at a service layer of a destination system and exchanges service information to detect a service interaction problem. A requested call can be established by other signalling and media handler functions when no essential service interaction problem is detected.

Abstract: An arrangement and method for equipment remote control according to a predetermined user profile. Controllable equipment is provided with a first wireless communication device and a user identity badge is provided with a second wireless communication device for communication, when in-range, with said first wireless communication device. A mobile communication terminal in communication with an Internet Protocol (IP) network, and provided with a third wireless communication device, communicates, when in-range, with said second wireless communication device. User and equipment identities are communicated to a user profile server connected to said IP network, and a user profile is returned to the equipment which is configured accordingly.

Abstract: A method for exchange of vertical information in a layered redundant deployed network is disclosed. At an endpoint side, a first message, e.g. a user registration message, is vertically being sent upwards from layer to layer. For each passed node, an address list of peers in the current layer is added to the message. When reaching the uppermost layer, all the address lists added to the message are being stored in a node in that layer. A second message confirming the first message is being sent from the latter node in the opposite vertical direction from layer to layer, wherein said second message always contains the addresses of the previously passed node and its redundant peers. These addresses are stored in each node receiving said second message. Consequently, the uppermost layer at the endpoint side will know all the alternative routes for transmitting messages vertically towards the lowermost layer.

Abstract: A multimedia surveillance arrangement comprising a surveillance sensor adapted to communicate by a standard communication protocol media representing at least one sensed parameter according, a plurality of networks interconnected by media gateways and at least one network controller, and a surveillance receiver adapted to receive all or part of said media. The network controller also serves as endpoint for media from the surveillance sensor, is adapted to interact with said received media, is responsive to information contained in the received media, and is adapted to communicate an event message and/or all or part of said received media on basis of said information. The multimedia network controller ca be a SIP server or H.323 Gatekeeper, adapted to interact with said surveillance media, for generating an event message.