Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication device to be connected with an external device via a network includes a connection unit, a variable resistance unit, and a control unit. The connection unit is connected to the network. The variable resistance unit is connected to the connection unit such that a resistance value is detectable from the external device, the resistance value being variable. The control unit changes the resistance value according to an operation state.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes one or more first receivers, a transmitter and a change module. The first receivers are configured to receive a command signal which instructs change of a power control state from another electronic apparatus. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to the another electronic apparatus, standby-capability information that includes a communication method adopted by the first receivers and a signal form specifying the command signal. The change module is configured to change the power control state when the first receivers receive the command signal.

Abstract: Shielding structure for use in an electronic device comprising a housing and an electronic substrate which is arranged in the housing and which includes electronic parts, wherein the housing includes at least a surface facing the electronic parts, the surface being made of an electrically conductive substance. There is disposed a shielding member made of electrically conductive material comprising a frame-shaped section disposed on the printed board to surround a periphery of the electronic parts and a leaf spring section disposed to project from an upper-edge section of the frame-shaped section toward the inside of the frame-shaped section and upwardly in an inclined direction. The shielding member is disposed on the electronic substrate, and the surface made of an electrically conductive substance of the housing pushes the leaf spring section to be brought into contact therewith.

Abstract: The invention relates to a microporous membrane having a relatively low heat shrinkage values along planar axes of the membrane. The invention also relates to a battery separator formed by such microporous membrane, and a battery comprising such a separator. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for making the multi-layer, microporous polyolefin membrane, a method for making a battery using such a membrane as a separator, and a method for using such a battery.

Abstract: The invention relates to microporous polymeric membrane having a good balance of rupture temperature and air permeability. The invention also relates to a battery separator formed by such a microporous membrane, and a battery comprising such a separator. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for making the microporous polymeric membrane, a method for making a battery using such a membrane as a separator, and a method for using such a battery.

Abstract: A communication apparatus, comprising has a generator which generates format information of a start instruction message, a memory which stores the format information, a communication unit which transmits the format information and receives a start instruction message via a network, and a controller which detects whether or not the received start instruction message corresponds to the format information stored in the memory, and performs start processing and initialization processing based on a content of the start instruction message when the received start instruction message corresponds to the format information.

Abstract: A relay device includes a reception unit which receives a startup packet including a first ID for starting up controllable equipment. The relay device also includes a transmission unit which transmits a first electric signal indicating the first ID to all link-downed Ethernet ports.

Abstract: In a wireless terminal having a wireless transceiver and a wireless receiver which operates with lower power than the wireless transceiver, when the wireless receiver receives, from a base station, a notification message notifying that data addressed to the terminal is existent, the wireless transceiver is turned on to acquire the data.

Abstract: Shielding structure for use in an electronic device comprising a housing and an electronic substrate which is arranged in the housing and which includes electronic parts, wherein the housing includes at least a surface facing the electronic parts, the surface being made of an electrically conductive substance. There is disposed a shielding member made of electrically conductive material comprising a frame-shaped section disposed on the printed board to surround a periphery of the electronic parts and a leaf spring section disposed to project from an upper-edge section of the frame-shaped section toward the inside of the frame-shaped section and upwardly in an inclined direction. The shielding member is disposed on the electronic substrate, and the surface made of an electrically conductive substance of the housing pushes the leaf spring section to be brought into contact therewith.

Abstract: A main memory data rewriting device includes a rewrite condition analysis unit configured to analyze a rewrite condition for target data in main memory data stored in a main memory before deactivation of an information processing device, and create a first processing content to acquire environment data substituting the target data from outside of the information processing device and a second processing content to rewrite the target data to the environment data, an environment data processing unit configured to acquire the environment data according to the first processing content when the information processing device is temporarily activated at an activation time set to rewrite the target data during a deactivating period of the information processing device, and a rewrite processing unit configured to rewrite a region of a nonvolatile storage medium in which the target data is stored with the environment data according to the second processing content.

Abstract: An information providing system includes a portable terminal, and a server that provides the portable terminal with information of an arrival time of the portable terminal at a destination. The portable terminal comprises an RFID tag to which identification information of the destination and identification information of a departure place are written; and a communication unit that transmits the destination identification information, the departure place identification information, and information of a departure time which is a current time to the server when triggered by the departure place identification information written in the RFID tag.

Abstract: A packet processor transfers a message received by a first (second) port to a second (first) port. When first specific information is included in the received message, a QoS terminal detector detects a communication terminal, which is a sender of the message received by the first port or a destination of the message received by the second port, as a QoS terminal requesting application of QoS. When the QoS terminal does not satisfy a preset connection condition associated with the QoS terminal connectable to the first port via a first network, an output unit outputs information indicating that the connection condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: A communication between a terminal connected to the Internet, like a household terminal, and a server can be performed by simple processing at any time after security is ensured. In a case where control of a particular terminal connected to a predetermined network is performed from the server, when there is a predetermined processing request at the particular terminal from the server or an external terminal connected to the server, a callback request is sent to the server or the particular terminal. At the particular terminal receiving the callback request, a callback request response is made to the server by a predetermined communication method in which security is ensured, and instructions for performing predetermined processing by the predetermined communication method are sent, as a response from the server with respect to the callback request response, to the particular terminal.

Abstract: An apparatus is for setting a communication path between a communication terminal device connected through a first network and a plurality of second networks. The apparatus includes a name resolution request generator, a destination determiner, and a path setting unit. The name resolution request generator generates and transmits a name resolution request addressed to a name resolution server of the second networks, based on a name resolution request for name resolution of a destination received from the communication terminal device. The destination determiner assigns a priority to a name resolution response received from the name resolution server, and determines a destination based on the priority. The path setting unit sets a path by generating a routing table from path information including address information of the destination, address information of a gateway of the second networks, and an interface name.

Abstract: A first arithmetic unit performs a network process for transmission and reception of a message. A second arithmetic unit performs a network process and a specific process that is predetermined to be performed on the message in relation with the network process. An alternate process management table stores therein process information in which associated identification information with an instruction sequence, the identification information being information for identifying a type of the message, the instruction sequence being a sequence for sequentially performing a network process and a specific process. The first arithmetic unit includes an identification information detector that detects the identification information from the message, and a controller that retrieves, from the alternate process management table, an instruction sequence corresponding to the identification information detected, so as to control the second arithmetic unit to perform the instruction sequence retrieved.

Abstract: In carrying out a cell search, the received-signal level (RSSI) at each frequency is measured in the first place, by implementing asynchronous detection in steps of a predetermined frequency-step width over a predetermined search frequency range (from Fini to Fend), After measuring the RSSI, a cell search is carried out by implementing synchronous-detection processing over the frequency range that has a center frequency where the received-signal level is higher than a threshold value and that has the frequency-step width, it is an object of the present invention to obtain a communication terminal unit that can reduce a cell-search time.

Abstract: In a contents transmission/reception system, the transmission of the contents to the corresponding reception device is permitted only in the case where the device identification information searched out by the device identification information search unit and the device identification information registered by the device identification information registration unit coincide, so that it is possible to provide the contents only to the limited reception devices, and it is possible to prevent the illegal reception of the contents.

Abstract: An HW arithmetic unit executes a predetermined arithmetic operation. An arithmetic-mode determining unit determines, based on an attribute or a content of data relating to processing that has requested the arithmetic operation, either a synchronous mode that executes the processing after waiting for completion of the arithmetic operation by an arithmetic circuit or an asynchronous mode that executes the processing without waiting for completion of the arithmetic operation by the arithmetic circuit, as an execution mode of the arithmetic operation. An arithmetic-process control unit controls the arithmetic operation by the arithmetic circuit according to the determined execution mode.

Abstract: An automatic gain control device includes an amplifier for a reception signal, a signal processing unit, a memory, and a control unit. The amplifier can set a gain. The signal processing unit extracts control data from an output from the amplifier and performs information processing for the data. The memory stores the gain setting value of the amplifier. The control unit controls the gain of the amplifier in accordance with a preset control algorithm. On the basis of the result obtained when the control unit computes a gain setting value stored in the memory in accordance with a preset algorithm, the control unit controls the gain of the amplifier in correspondence with operation of switching the frequency of a reception signal, which is accompanied by different frequency monitoring in the compressed mode by the signal processing unit.

Abstract: In a contents transmission/reception system, the transmission of the contents to the corresponding reception device is permitted only in the case where the device identification information searched out by the device identification information search unit and the device identification information registered by the device identification information registration unit coincide, so that it is possible to provide the contents only to the limited reception devices, and it is possible to prevent the illegal reception of the contents.