Abstract: User information related to a predetermined user, including a user ID, is obtained from a server on a network. Telephone book information, including the user ID and a telephone number of a communication apparatus that the predetermined user uses, is input on an operation unit of the present communication apparatus. The user information and the telephone book information are stored while being associated based on the user ID. The telephone book information associated with the user information based on the user ID is displayed as secondary information of the user information, when the user information of the predetermined user is displayed on a display and when display of further information of the predetermined user is instructed.

Abstract: A packet-relay unit 100 including a first interface unit (110), a second interface unit (120), and a function-setting switch (130). The second interface unit (120) includes a classifying unit (121), a priority control unit (122), and a transceiving unit (123). When the function-setting switch (130) sets a “QoS function” as “operative”, the classifying unit (121) transfers packets transferred from the first interface unit (110) to the priority control unit (122). The priority control unit (122) provides priority control over the transferred packets such that the transferred packets are preferentially treated at a wireless zone connected to the second interface unit (120), whereby the priority-controlled packets are transferred to a transceiving unit (123) from the priority control unit (122). When the function-setting switch (130) sets “the QoS function” as “inoperative”, the classifying unit (121) transfers the transferred packets directly to the transceiving unit (123).

Abstract: A packet transmission apparatus transfers arriving packets directly to a highest-priority queue under non-congestion conditions, and classifies the priority of a packet only on the existence of congestion. In one embodiment, non-congestion is determined when all queues are empty. In another embodiment, congestion or non-congestion is determined by upper and lower thresholds on the total number of packets in all queues. The ability to omit classifying incoming packets in the non-congestion condition improves processing speed, and eliminates the need for re-queuing or packet-replacing operations.

Abstract: By transmitting such an extended Echo request packet that device setting information was written in a payload of an ICMP-Echo packet, to an terminal 10b equipped with ICMP function which does not has a special function, the extended Echo request packet collect device setting statuses of relay devices 110 equipped with extended Echo, and an extended Echo reply packet, which is a reply packet in which a payload of the extended Echo request packet was copied, conveys the compiled device setting statuses and device setting information to each device on a communication route, and thereby, it is possible to carry out a uniform device setting.

Abstract: The present invention provides a base station including a resource request-receiving unit operable to receive a resource request from a communication apparatus, and a resource-reserving unit operable to make a resource reservation in response to the resource request, in which the resource reservation is required by communication between the base station and the communication apparatus. The resource-reserving unit reserves resources required by data packets, and resources required by acknowledgment packets paired with the data packets. The above structure of the base station transmits the acknowledgment packets without delay, and provides improved communication throughput.

Abstract: A packet shaper includes: a TCP packet queue for storing TCP packets; a UDP packet queue for storing UDP packets; a scheduler for outputting a packet from one of the queues into a rate-setting control unit. Control based on a total queue length is performed to deterioration of image quality or tone quality in the audio/visual communications according to a connection-oriented protocol like TCP.

Abstract: Every entry of a flow table has the following fields: a source IP address; a destination IP address; a protocol number; an identification; a source port number; a destination port number; a payload type; and SSRC information. An RTP-judging unit judges, when IP packets having a characteristic of a RTP header have been inputted continuously for predetermined time, that each of the IP packets includes an RTP packet. A packet-classifying unit classifies an inputted IP packet according to a judgment result by the RTP-judging unit and a pre-defined packet-classifying-rule.

Abstract: A packet transmission method wherein, when the sum of the bands of a plurality of flows including packets having the same priority exceeds the guaranteed band shared by these flows, a packet belongs to a flow having an earlier transmission start time is given a higher priority than a packet belongs to a flow having a later transmission start time on the in order of arrival basis based on the transmission start time. A classifier controls the token thresholds and a priority control mechanism controls the discard thresholds based on each flow to use for deciding the conditions.

Abstract: A packet-transmitting apparatus operable to receive incoming packets and to feed non-discarded packets sequentially to the outside, comprising: a flow-classifying unit operable to classify the incoming packets for each flow; a flow-determining unit operable to determine whether each of the flows falls within a range of an available band that is defined by an upper limit band of each of the flows; and an upper limit band-renewing unit operable to renew the upper limit band with reference to a determination result from the flow-determining unit, wherein there are cases where the upper limit band-renewing unit renews the upper limit band in such a manner that the upper limit band exceeds a value obtained from a line capacity divided by the number of the flows.

Abstract: In a packet transmission apparatus 24, an identifier assigning section 214 assigns one of first to third priority identifiers to a currently-received packet Pb, and passes the packet to a packet transmitting section 28 as a packet Pc. The packet transmitting section 28 performs a necessary process on the received packet Pc, and outputs the processed packet to an interconnection link 4 as a packet Pd. Thus, the packet transmission apparatus 24 can perform priority control with excellent transmission quality while assuring a contracted bandwidth.

Abstract: Multicast packets are provided to a multicast queue and packets besides multicast packets are provided to queues, each of which is provided according to each user terminal. The transmittable band of a queue corresponding to a user terminal that uses multicast is reduced in accordance with the number of multicast traffic used and the number of group members and thereby handled as if the queue has consumed the guaranteed band to thereby guarantee the guaranteed band of each user.

Abstract: An apparatus for embedding information in a signal includes a band dividing device, a block divider, a quantization portion, a signal replacement portion, a mean difference addition portion, a mean calculation portion, and a band synthesis portion. The band dividing device divides the signal into transform coefficients over a plurality of frequency bands. The block divider divides one frequency band into a plurality of blocks in accordance with a previously determined block size. The quantization portion calculates for each block, a mean value M of the transform coefficients in the block, and subjects the mean value M to linear quantization, using a previously determined quantization step-size Q to calculate a quantization value. The signal replacement portion replaces the quantization value for each block, on the basis of the quantization value and the value of the information to be embedded.

Abstract: An apparatus for embedding information in a signal includes a band dividing device, a block divider, a quantization portion, a signal replacement portion, a mean difference addition portion, a mean calculation portion, and a band synthesis portion. The band dividing device divides the signal into transform coefficients over a plurality of frequency bands. The block divider divides one frequency band into a plurality of blocks in accordance with a previously determined block size. The quantization portion calculates for each block, a mean value M of the transform coefficients in the block, and subjects the mean value M to linear quantization, using a previously determined quantization step-size Q to calculate a quantization value. The signal replacement portion replaces the quantization value for each block, on the basis of the quantization value and the value of the information to be embedded.

Abstract: A packet transmission apparatus transfers arriving packets directly to a highest-priority queue under non-congestion conditions, and classifies the priority of a packet only on the existence of congestion. In one embodiment, non-congestion is determined when all queues are empty. In another embodiment, congestion or non-congestion is determined by upper and lower thresholds on the total number of packets in all queues. The ability to omit classifying incoming packets in the non-congestion condition improves processing speed, and eliminates the need for re-queuing or packet-replacing operations.

Abstract: In a radio communication system for performing digital radio communications by using time-division multiplexed time slots, a first personal station receives its user's speech through the microphone, converts it into audio data, and transmits them on time slots to a second personal station. On the other hand, the first personal station receives non-audio data from the data processor connected with the second personal station and stores. When the audio data amount inputted to the first personal station in a unit time period is lower than a threshold and the communications between the first personal station and the second personal station are put in a silence condition, the first personal station transmits non-audio data on times slots to the second personal station. When the communications return to a sound condition, audio data transmission is restored. Whether each time slot carries audio data or non-audio data is designated by an identifier which is written in a predetermined field of each time slot.

Abstract: The caller personal station of the present invention includes the following units: a channel search unit for scanning the plurality of communication channels to search for an unoccupied channel and regarding the unoccupied channel as a multicast channel; and a simultaneous call unit for repeatedly transmitting a simultaneous call frame on the multicast channel for a first predetermined time period, the simultaneous call frame indicating a simultaneous call to the other personal stations; a multicast unit for transmitting multicast frames on the multicast channel when a second predetermined time period has passed, the multicast frames containing data to be multicast. On receiving the simultaneous call frame by sequentially sensing the plurality of communication channels, the other personal stations enter a receiving state of multicast frames on the multicast channel.