Abstract: There is a need for providing a communication data processor easily adaptable to network configurations required for industrial Ethernet. The apparatus successively analyzes received packets. The apparatus uses a register to determine whether or not to transmit the received packet as transmission data to another port. Rewritable memory saves a program code that provides control for analyzing a reception packet and generating a transmission packet. The apparatus is capable of complying with various communication protocols by changing the program code.

Abstract: In a terminal system for managing terminals coupled to a network, a terminal management server includes: a terminal information registration module for registering, in advance, information unique to each user of the terminal; an authentication module for executing authentication by comparing an ID and authentication information which are contained in an authentication request received from the terminal to user information set in advance; an authenticity determination module for determining, based on a predetermined investigation result received from the terminal, whether or not the terminal suffers falsification; and a unique information transmission module for transmitting, when the authentication is successful, and when the authenticity determination module has determined that the terminal does not suffer the falsification, the information unique to the each user to the terminal. The terminal outputs the information unique to the each user received from the terminal management server to a display unit.

Abstract: A invented computer system has a plurality of computer boards; a plurality of terminals, each of which is coupled to each of the computer boards respectively via a network; a storage device having a plurality of storage areas, which is coupled to each of the computer boards; and a management computer; and wherein the management computer manages a correspondence between a user information and the storage area, and when a use request of the computer board is transmitted from a terminal, the management computer selects a usable computer board to turn on a power, reads information necessary to start the computer board from the storage corresponding to the transmitted user information, allows the computer board to start based on the read information, and notifies the terminal of information on the started computer board and identification information on the network allocated to the started computer board.

Abstract: An optical receiver is disclosed in which the error rate for the received data may be effectively reduced even for the non-linear optical transmission system that provides a directly modulate laser diode as the optical transmitter and the single mode fiber inevitably accompanying with the dispersion as the transmission medium. The optical receiver includes a photodiode (PD), a low-pass filter (LPF) and a maximum likelihood sequence estimator (MLSE) carrying out the Viterbi algorithm. The LPF in front of the MLSE effectively suppresses the ringing appeared in the received signal to generate a replica data with good reproducibility.

Abstract: An application distribution control system is made up of an information processing apparatus including a data collecting part that collects and stores data of a use state when using an application of an application distribution server into a memory and a data moving part that moves the use state data to a client terminal; the client terminal including a data setting part that receives the use state data from the information processing apparatus to set a use state of the application in accordance with the use state data and a request transmitting part that transmits a use request for the application to the application distribution server; and the application distribution server including a service providing part that receives the use request for the application from the client terminal to allow for the use of the application through the network.

Abstract: In a client/server architecture system, a device management system having the function of safely sharing a device without compromising user convenience is provided. The device is coupled to a terminal that the user uses or a hub coupled to a network. A device management manager having a device driver function and communication function installed on the terminal or the like, a virtual device manager having a device driver function and communication function installed on the server, and an authentication server that manages access permission for the device allow the device to be virtually available as in the case of the device directly coupled to the server while managing the access to the device.

Abstract: A mobile device includes a memory for storing therein a subroutine management table to manage kinds of existing codes out of native code, first code and second code for a plurality of subroutines contained in content, a virtual machine, a precompile circuit for producing second code from first code and a subroutine management circuit for changing over processing in accordance with the kind of existing code for subroutine called up during execution of content. The subroutine management circuit judges kind of existing code with reference to the subroutine management table when the processing is changed over.

Abstract: The communication device includes: a communication control section which periodically causes a radio communication module to establish a connection to the server; a data reception and transmission instructing section which instructs the communication control section to obtain files and directory information stored in the server when the connection is established, and stores the files and the directory information in memories; and an emulation processing section which notifies, when the communication device is coupled to the computer, the computer that the communication device is a mass storage class device, submits the directory information stored in the memories to the computer, refers, when designation of a file contained in the directory information is accepted from the computer, to the directory information to read the file from the memories, and sends the file to the computer.

Abstract: A call management system is configured of a client terminal 200 and a management server 100. The client terminal 200 executes a presence detection process by communicating with a call device 50 and acquiring presence information including a user ID, and a presence transmission process of transmitting, to a management server 100, presence information including the presence information of the detected user and the ID of the client terminal 200 itself.

Abstract: A method for appropriately equalizing a distorted optical signal due to the dispersion of the optical fiber is disclosed. The equalizer unit in an optical transceiver firstly equalizes a test signal with clock period longer than an original clock period to determine a set of tap coefficients. Secondly, the equalizer unit sets thus obtained tap coefficients as the initial condition thereof, and lastly receives the original transmitting signal with distortions to equalize and to adjust the tap coefficients such that the original data contained in the transmitting signal may recover.

Abstract: An optical transceiver and a method to setup the optical transceiver are disclosed, where the transceiver has a function to compensate the distortion and the dispersion due to the limited bandwidth of the electrical signal line, that of the active devices, and that of the optical fiber. The optical transceiver comprises a transmitter with an equalizer unit and a receiver also with an equalizer unit. The equalizer unit in the transmitter compensates the distortion due to the limited bandwidth of the transmission lines for the electrical signal and that of the semiconductor active device, while, the equalizer unit in the receiver compensates the dispersion due to the limited bandwidth of the optical fiber.

Abstract: Disclosed is a secure remote access system for improving convenience of a user by utilizing a storage device including an anti-tampering device as a user authentication device in the secure remote access system for making access and execution of job while a user is making the encrypted communication to a server from an unspecified client. Usability can be improved and thereby the job executing function can be used smoothly at the internal and external sides of the working office by providing a server client system where the server can be manipulated remotely by distributing a storage device loading the authorized anti-tampering device to users, connecting the storage device to unspecified clients by users, and using the authentication information and application stored in the storage device. A remote access system having improved security and convenient during usage of client from the user can also be provided by reducing the secret information remaining in the manipulated client.

Abstract: To provide a mechanism for preventing information leakage by erasing stored information if a preset condition is not satisfied, because if an external storage device in which the information is stored is stolen or lost the risk of information leakage through decryption still remains even in the case where the information is encrypted. An external storage device has a locking management function capable of setting available conditions for stored information and controlling permission/prohibition of user access depending on whether the conditions are satisfied. User access is permitted if the available conditions are satisfied. The stored information is erased if the available conditions are not satisfied.

Abstract: The service provider stores a program to use a service and license information in a memory card including an IC card chip, a flash memory, and an interface controller. According to the license information, the user can select a specification of a server PC on the service provider side and uses a server PC, which is maintained by the service provider, by use of the memory card through remote operation. Also, when the user reports the loss of the memory card to the service provider, a managing server on the service provider side sends a card function inactivation command to the memory card to prevent its false use.

Abstract: An oscillator and a radar apparatus that includes a resonator electro-magnetically connected to a micro strip line and a rotor connected to the resonator by capacitance. The bottom surface of the rotor has a changing height in the circumferential direction of the rotor. As the rotor is rotated, an actual oscillation frequency is recognized from the rotating angle of the rotor when an output of a detector has a peak. A modulation voltage supplied to a VCO is corrected in accordance with the result.

Abstract: A device management system is provided which is used in a client/server architecture system, enabling safe sharing of a device without compromising user convenience. In a case where the device which is connected to a client is accessed from a server, in order that the device connected to the client can be used from the server by merely connecting the device to the client without performing another operation, a filter is provided on the client side, and a pseudo bus driver is provided on the server side. The filter in the client exclusively controls client operations to the device and server operations to the device. The pseudo bus driver virtually functions as a device driver between a communication unit for the client and the application in the server.

Abstract: A computer system can always execute processing under the same environments not depending on the terminal device that is directly used by the user, no matter where the client used by the user is, and no matter what device is used. In the computer system, one of plural computer PCBAs that do not install a hard disk device therein is selected from the terminal device, remotely controllable environments are constituted, and data is read and written from the hard disk device which are coupled to all of the computer PCBAs over a network that is used by the user.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compact dispersion compensator and the like. The dispersion compensator comprises a housing and an optical fiber coil. The optical fiber coil has a coiled part constituted by a dispersion-compensating optical fiber wound like a coil while being in a bundle state with its winding distortion substantially eliminated. The housing is filled with a resin surrounding the coiled part of the optical fiber coil, whereas the coiled part is held by the resin. By this structure, the dispersion compensator can realize a further compactness.

Abstract: The present invention provides a line transition and a method for manufacturing the same. The line transition is constructed such that a planar circuit can be arranged in the direction parallel to the propagation direction of electromagnetic waves propagating through a solid waveguide, the coupling characteristics of the solid waveguide with the planar circuit formed on a dielectric substrate are not influenced by the assembly precision of the waveguide and the circuit, and the line transition characteristics are not affected by a variation in manufacturing the dielectric substrate. Notches are formed at the edges of the dielectric substrate in the vicinities of coupled-line pattern segments formed on a dielectric substrate. The notches are formed by punching through holes in a ceramic green sheet serving as a motherboard, firing the motherboard, and cutting the motherboard using dicing lines passing through the through holes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a line transition and a method for manufacturing the same. The line transition is constructed such that a planar circuit can be arranged in the direction parallel to the propagation direction of electromagnetic waves propagating through a solid waveguide, the coupling characteristics of the solid waveguide with the planar circuit formed on a dielectric substrate are not influenced by the assembly precision of the waveguide and the circuit, and the line transition characteristics are not affected by a variation in manufacturing the dielectric substrate. Notches are formed at the edges of the dielectric substrate in the vicinities of coupled-line pattern segments formed on a dielectric substrate. The notches are formed by punching through holes in a ceramic green sheet serving as a motherboard, firing the motherboard, and cutting the motherboard using dicing lines passing through the through holes.