Abstract: A network system including a plurality of network apparatuses comprises an analysis part configured to analyze a communication status of a communication flow which is a control unit of a communication between terminals. The analysis part includes a reception process part configured to generate and update flow information, and a degradation point identifying part configured to detect degradation of communication quality of the each of the plurality of communication flows. The degradation point identifying part includes an index calculating part configured to calculate a plurality of indexes that are similar to a packet loss rate, the plurality of indexes requiring a smaller amount of data for an analysis and therefore requiring a shorter period of time for calculation. The degradation point identifying part determines whether communication quality of the communication flow has degraded or not based on the indexes.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes: a sending unit configured to send data to a receiver apparatus via the network; a receiving unit configured to receive acknowledgement data including an acknowledgement and information on a receive window size from the receiver apparatus via the network; a transmission bandwidth controller configured to control a bandwidth for data to be sent from the sending unit; a transmission bandwidth restriction unit configured to restrict the bandwidth controlled by the transmission bandwidth controller in such a manner that a data size of data for which no acknowledgement is received from the receiver apparatus among data which is sent is equal to or smaller than an upper limit size determined from the receive window size; and a switching controller configured to switch activation and inactivation of the transmission bandwidth restriction unit based on the data size and the receive window size.

Abstract: A network system comprising a plurality of communication apparatuses, wherein the network system includes an analysis part for analyzing a communication flow to classify a plurality of communication flows by communication types. The analysis part includes: a feature amount obtaining part for obtaining, for each of the plurality of communication flows, management information on the communication flow including a plurality of feature amounts; a cluster analysis part for analyzing the management information on the communication flow to generate a plurality of clusters each made up of the plurality of communication flows; and a cluster classification part for classifying the plurality of clusters by communication types based on an analysis result obtained using at least one of the plurality of feature amounts of the plurality of communication flows included in each of the plurality of clusters.

Abstract: When a TCP packet communication acceleration technique is applied to a wireless communication network, an acceleration effect is determined according to various pieces of information in real time, and acceleration control is dynamically performed to efficiently accelerate the communication by the use of the TCP of a wireless terminal present in the wireless communication network. A wireless communication system including at least one wireless terminal and at least one base station that communicates with the wireless terminal further includes an information collection server that collects various pieces of information from the base station and the wireless terminal. The base station includes a packet acceleration unit that accelerates a TCP packet communication, and the information collection server determines whether to accelerate the base station from the various pieces of information, or not, and controls the acceleration of the base station on the basis of its determination result.

Abstract: A network system has a plurality of communication devices, each of which controls communication between terminals connected through a network, and an analyzing device that analyzes a packet flowing through the network. The analyzing device includes an analyzing unit that analyzes a packet flowing through the network, and determines the necessity of a communication optimization function, for each communication, based on the analysis result, and a control unit that generates a control command of the communication device based on the determination result, and transmits the control command to the communication device.

Abstract: To efficiently retransmit discarded packets and to reduce discarded location storage capacity, it is provided a communication apparatus to be coupled to a network, the communication apparatus being configured to: transmit data to a correspondent communication apparatus coupled to the network; receive an acknowledgement transmitted from the correspondent communication apparatus; monitor whether or not a storage capacity shortage for storing discarded locations of transmitted data in the correspondent communication apparatus; and retransmit data by setting a retransmission priority for discarded locations in a case of the storage capacity shortage.

Abstract: An electronic device that increases both visibility and selectability of executable programs. The electronic device includes a touch panel display having an elongated shape, a memory storing programs, and a processor controlling program execution and the display. The touch panel includes a first display region and a second display region contiguous with and narrower than the first display region. The display displays an execution image of a first program in the first display region and an icon image of a second program in the second display region in a smaller display area than the execution image. When the processor detects contact at the icon image and detects that the contact moves towards the first display region, the processor causes the display to display an execution image of the second program in the first display region.

Abstract: An analysis device analyzes a packet processed by a communication device connected with a network. The analysis device includes a receiver and an analyzer. The receiver receives a mirror packet of the packet transmitted through the network. The analyzer obtains and analyzes a portion of information in the mirror packet, and determines a necessity or lack thereof for a function of the communication device to be performed on the packet transmitted through the network based on analysis results of the analyzer.

Abstract: To prevent the switching time influences power saving efficiency and packet loss prevention performance, it is provided a network apparatus for transferring packets, including a transfer part for transferring received packets to a given destination, and a determining part for obtaining traffic volume of the packets to be transferred. The determining part determines periodicity of changes to the traffic volume, predicts traffic volume after a predetermined period of time with use of the determined periodicity, and controls transfer performance of the transfer part based on a result of the traffic volume prediction.

Abstract: A communication device that controls a transmission bandwidth of TCP communication includes a means for linearly increasing the transmission bandwidth of the TCP communication during a certain period of time after a data segment whose reception has been acknowledged enters an update state without detection of congestion in the TCP communication, a means for non-linearly increasing the transmission bandwidth after the certain period of time, a means for detecting congestion using a change rate of a discarding rate or a retransmission rate in the TCP communication, a means for estimating a retransmission rate and a change rate thereof using a previous history of the transmission bandwidth and a retransmission bandwidth, and a means for estimating a discarding rate and a change rate thereof using a previous history of the transmission bandwidth and an ACK reception number.

Abstract: When a proxy device is used between a transmission terminal and a reception terminal, receives final data from the transmission terminal, and fails immediately thereafter, a situation is avoided where transmission is completed in the transmission terminal, but reception is not completed in the reception terminal. There is provided a means for not returning ACK when a data packet is received in a state in which there is no data which waits for ACK and transmission of which is in progress, and there is no data which waits for arrangement and reception of which is in progress in the proxy device, for returning ACK for data received one step before when a data packet is received in a state in which there is data which waits for ACK and transmission of which is in progress, or there is data which waits for arrangement and reception of which is in progress.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting element is provided. A first layer is formed above a substrate, and exhibits hole injection properties. A bank material layer is formed above the first layer using a bank material. Banks are formed by patterning the bank material layer, and forming a resin film on a surface of the first layer by attaching a portion of the bank material layer to the first layer. The banks define apertures corresponding to light-emitters. The resin material is the same as the bank material. A functional layer is formed by applying ink to the apertures that contacts the resin film. The ink contains an organic material. The functional layer includes an organic light-emitting layer. A second layer is formed above the functional layer and exhibits electron injection properties. The hole injection properties of the first layer are degraded by applying electrical power to an element structure.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to measure a packet loss rate by using information included in a general communication protocol. In a network including a transmission terminal, a communication line, and a reception terminal, the transmission terminal adds a number denoting a packet order to a transmission packet and transmits the transmission packet, and the reception terminal is a system using a protocol in which an order of packets, which have been received, is returned as an acknowledgement, and a system using a selective acknowledgement to notify of reception of discontinuous data when the reception terminal receives the discontinuous data. A method for measuring a packet loss rate by using a number of transmission packets and information on an acknowledgement and a selective acknowledgement is provided in the transmission terminal.

Abstract: To efficiently retransmit discarded packets and to reduce discarded location storage capacity, it is provided a communication apparatus to be coupled to a network, the communication apparatus being configured to: transmit data to a correspondent communication apparatus coupled to the network; receive an acknowledgement transmitted from the correspondent communication apparatus; monitor whether or not a storage capacity shortage for storing discarded locations of transmitted data in the correspondent communication apparatus; and retransmit data by setting a retransmission priority for discarded locations in a case of the storage capacity shortage.

Abstract: An electronic device that increases both visual perceptibility and selectability of executable programs. A display is a display with an elongated shape whose display surface includes a first region and a second region aligned in a longitudinal direction. In the first region, only an image that corresponds to a program that is specified as the main program is displayed. In the second region, images that correspond to sub-programs are displayed to be lined up in the longitudinal direction. The image includes an execution image of the program that is specified as the main program.

Abstract: When a proxy device is used between a transmission terminal and a reception terminal, receives final data from the transmission terminal, and fails immediately thereafter, a situation is avoided where transmission is completed in the transmission terminal, but reception is not completed in the reception terminal. There is provided a means for not returning ACK when a data packet is received in a state in which there is no data which waits for ACK and transmission of which is in progress, and there is no data which waits for arrangement and reception of which is in progress in the proxy device, for returning ACK for data received one step before when a data packet is received in a state in which there is data which waits for ACK and transmission of which is in progress, or there is data which waits for arrangement and reception of which is in progress.

Abstract: In communication using TCP, since the transmission bandwidth is significantly influenced by RTT and discard rate, there was a problem that only the transmission bandwidth significantly lower than the contracted bandwidth could be obtained under the environment such as WAN causing large RTT, large hop number and many discarded segments. There is provided an apparatus connected to a receiving side terminal having a means for feeding back to notify all discarded segments to an apparatus connected to a transmitting side terminal; a means for retransmitting the discarded segments fed back to be notified to the apparatus connected to the transmitting side terminal; and a means for controlling transmission bandwidth, based on retransmission bandwidth and discard bandwidth by the apparatus connected to the transmitting side terminal.

Abstract: An information input/display device including: a sensor detecting contact and outputting contact positions; a display unit displaying video signals each corresponding to one screen; a first drawing unit generating first video signals each corresponding to one screen, when displayed, that includes an image of a drawing of a continuous line formed by the contact positions; a second drawing unit generating second video signals each corresponding to an image of the drawing of the continuous line, the second drawing unit generating images of the drawing of the continuous line at a higher speed than the first drawing unit; and an adding unit adding each of the second video signals to a corresponding one of the first video signals. Images of the drawing of the continuous line generated by at least one of the first drawing unit and the second drawing unit change as time elapses in drawing processing.

Abstract: EL display device with long lifetime for electrons being injected into a light-emission layer at a high rate, and method of manufacturing the EL display device are provided. The EL display device includes: base; pixel electrode on the base; auxiliary wiring on the base, the auxiliary wiring not overlapping with the pixel electrode; light-emission layer above the pixel electrode; charge transport layer above the auxiliary wiring and the pixel electrode, the charge transport layer continuously extending over the auxiliary wiring and the pixel electrode; and common electrode on the charge transport layer, the common electrode continuously extending over the auxiliary wiring and connected with the auxiliary wiring. The common electrode includes at least one metal selected from a group consisting of alkali metals and alkaline-earth metals.