Abstract: The present invention provides a relay apparatus 130 for, even Wan information providing apparatus that distributes a content is changed, assuring a communication quality for the content to be distributed, and preventing a disturbed image from being distributed to a terminal apparatus. If a response packet received from an information providing apparatus having a first domain name indicates a transfer request, the relay apparatus 130 updates a service information table such that a second domain name indicating a second information providing apparatus, included in the response packet, is associated with the first domain name.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a transmission unit transmitting, to a master device, a first registration request indicating a request for registration as a new control target terminal; a reception unit receiving registration request acknowledgement information transmitted from the master device in response to reception of the first registration request; a notification unit notifying the outside of the terminal apparatus of notification information included in the registration request acknowledgement information and indicating the master device has received the first registration request; a detection unit detecting another terminal apparatus that is to transmit, to a master device, a second registration request indicating a request for registration as a new control target terminal; and a registration control unit controlling, when the detection unit detects the other terminal apparatus, at least a time when the first registration request is transmitted.

Abstract: A communications terminal registered as a controlled terminal in a controlling terminal which controls the controlled terminal via a communications network, the communications terminal includes a receiving unit (15020) which receives a sleep message including information indicating whether or not the controlling terminal is sleeping and information indicating a timing when the controlling terminal leaves sleep mode and wakes up; a detecting unit (15030) which detects a transmission of a registration request for requesting that a new terminal be registered in the controlling terminal as a new controlled terminal, the new terminal being another communications terminal not yet registered in the controlling terminal; and a notifying unit (15040) which determines whether or not the controlling terminal is sleeping based on the sleep message, and notifies the new terminal is of the timing by sending the sleep message when the controlling terminal is sleeping and when the transmission of the registration request is

Abstract: The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit (203) obtains apparatus information from an apparatus. A position information obtainment unit (206) obtains position information of the communication device (102). An operation information obtainment unit (212) obtains operation information based on the apparatus information. A storage unit (213) stores the position information as apparatus position information indicating as a position of the apparatus, in association with the operation information. A direction sensor unit (207) detects direction of the communication device (102). A directional space calculation unit (208) calculates a directional space of the communication device (102).

Abstract: An LC composite component has a unique structure that makes it easy to set frequency characteristics while reducing a circuit area and the number of layers. The LC composite component includes a laminated body including a plurality of dielectric layers. The laminated body is produced by forming input and output electrodes and an LC resonant circuit therein. The LC composite component includes a capacitor, which includes an elongated electrode portion having an elongated shape. The elongated electrode portion faces a flat electrode portion having a flat shape, with one of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween. At the same time, the elongated electrode portion constitutes an open stub that is open at a tip end.

Abstract: A mobile communication device (98b) includes: an appliance information obtainment unit (98n) that obtains appliance information (98n1) by proximity wireless communication (98c1) with an appliance (98a) installed in a home (99), the appliance information specifying the appliance (98a); a position information obtainment unit (98j) that obtains position information (98j1) of the mobile communication device when the proximity wireless communication (98c1) is performed; and a transmission unit (98o) that transmits transmission information (98o1) to a server (98c) in the case where the proximity wireless communication (98c1) is performed, the transmission information including the appliance information (98n1) and the position information (98j1).

Abstract: Provided is a communication medium determining apparatus which easily determines a communication medium in use for communication between two devices on a network, including: a communication performance obtaining unit (303) which obtains values indicating transmission speeds in a given communication path when a device which decreases transmission speed in a specific communication medium when activated, is active and when the device is inactive; and a communication medium determining unit (301) which determines whether or not the communication through the given communication path is performed using the specific communication medium, based on (i) a speed decrease value indicating an amount of decrease in the transmission speed in the specific communication medium caused by activation of the device and (ii) a speed difference value which is a difference in the transmission speed obtained by the communication performance obtaining unit (303) between when the device is active and when the device is inactive.

Abstract: An electronic component that reduces resistance and prevents occurrence of an edge effect, includes a laminated body formed by stacking insulator layers. Conductor layers are linear conductors, and define coils included in the laminated body. The conductor layers face each other, with the insulator layer interposed therebetween, and allow signals of substantially the same phase to pass therethrough. The conductor layers define regions, each having a shape which decreases in thickness in the z-axis direction with increasing distance from a center thereof in a line width direction.

Abstract: A source apparatus writes, in a route request packet, the number of routes requested by the source apparatus. When a relay apparatus receives a route request packet for the first time, the relay apparatus determines a waiting time period, based on a route evaluation value that indicates a state of a route through which the route request packet has passed, and starts a timer. The relay apparatus selects route request packets having as high route evaluation values as possible, among route request packets that have been received until the timer expires, the number of route request packets to be selected being equal to the number of routes requested by the source apparatus, and then broadcasts the selected route request packets.

Abstract: A communications apparatus, enabling an efficient data transfer without an environmental restriction, notifies a transmission-side apparatus connected via a network of data amount in a window size, and receives data as large as the window size, the data which is transmitted from the transmission-side apparatus. The communications apparatus includes: a receiving buffer memory having a region for storing a data packet transmitted from the transmission-side apparatus; a communications protocol processing unit notifying the transmission-side apparatus of the window size larger than a capacity of the receiving buffer memory, receiving the data packet transmitted from the transmission-side apparatus according to the notified window size, and storing the received data packet in the receiving buffer memory; and a central controlling unit retrieving the data packet stored in the receiving buffer memory and processing the retrieved data packet.

Abstract: Methods are presented for detecting PSTVd and TCDVd viroids in plant cells and tissues using nucleic acid amplification of plant RNA with a novel primer set. The methods allow nucleic acid sequences from both types of viroid to be detected simultaneously and distinguished from each other. Also presented is a kit for performing these methods.

Abstract: Setting and operation of a TV, a mobile terminal, and the like are extremely complex to an ordinary user. Even when part of the setting and operation is automatically done, still a change needs to be performed so as to meet the needs of the user according to a use status. In view of this, a RFID tag (8007) of a mobile AV terminal (8006) is brought into proximity of a RFID tag (8007) of a TV 1 to exchange the use status between the terminals, and then a command is generated on the basis of the use status and issued to a server apparatus or the like. Thus, by a simple touching operation (moving the terminal close to the other terminal), it is possible to communicate information for authentication and timing synchronization and thereby meet the needs of the user, with there being no need for the user to perform complex setting and operation.

Abstract: The present invention can prevent a fuzzy image, which is caused due to insufficient bandwidth when the bandwidth necessary for transmitting a content cannot be secured, to be displayed on a display device. When a relay apparatus (100) receives, from a DNS server, a DNS response packet regarding a domain name of a server which transmits a content, a condition judging section (210) in the relay apparatus (100) judges whether a required bandwidth for the content corresponding to the domain name can be secured in a communication path connecting to another relay apparatus (100). If the condition judging section (210) judges that the required bandwidth cannot be secured, a DNS modifying section (250) in the relay apparatus (100) rewrites a reply IP address included in the DNS response packet to an IP address of the relay apparatus (100).

Abstract: In an electronic component, a multilayer body includes a plurality of insulator layers stacked on top of one another. A first coil is provided in the multilayer body, includes a first coil axis and extends toward the positive side in the z-axis direction while circling counterclockwise around the first coil axis. A second coil is connected to the first coil, is provided in the multilayer body, includes a second coil axis, and extends toward the negative side in the z-axis direction while circling counterclockwise around the second coil axis. When viewed in plan from the z-axis direction, the first coil axis is disposed inside the second coil and the second coil axis is disposed inside the first coil.

Abstract: A laminated filter includes a first insulation layer including first and second coil patterns and a first capacitor pattern and a second insulation layer including third and fourth coil patterns and second and third capacitor patterns. The first and second coil patterns are located near one longer side of the first insulation layer and connected to the third and fourth coil patterns through penetration electrodes in the first insulation layer. The third and fourth coil patterns extend to ends of the second insulation layer through extension patterns and are connected to external electrodes to define input and output inductors. The first capacitor pattern is located near the other longer side of the first insulation layer and connected to an external ground electrode through an extension pattern. The first capacitor pattern faces the second and third capacitor patterns with the first insulation layer interposed therebetween to define input and output capacitors.

Abstract: To provide a communication apparatus for achieving further improvements in communication quality and power saving effect, without depending on network environments. A portable terminal (211) as a communication apparatus includes: a communication I/F unit (108) performing data transmission/reception with a transmitter apparatus (203) on a communication protocol having flow control such as TCP; a power control unit (106) switching power on and off to the communication I/F unit (108); and a suppression/resumption control unit (104) determining cycle interval Tc and cycle data size Dc according to communication quality required by a communication application program and, per cycle interval Tc, causing data of cycle data size Dc to be transmitted in a burst state, suppressing data transmission from the transmitter apparatus (203), and causing the power control unit (106) to power off the communication I/F unit (108) while the data transmission is suppressed (T2 to T3), using the flow control mechanism.

Abstract: A communication device (8802), which can simplify various setting processes, transmits, to a server (8803) via a network, external device information received from an external device (8801) by using proximity wireless communication.

Abstract: Provided is a communication terminal that is capable of securing a route having the finest state while suppressing a bandwidth that is consume by a transmission of a control packet at a low level, when applied in an ad-hoc network which uses an electrical power line. The communication terminal included in the ad-hoc network acquires a plurality of route candidates at the beginning of a data transmission by conducting a broadcast transmission of a route creation packet, and acquires a route having the finest state by conducting an unicast transmission of a route estimation packet to each of the route candidates in each predetermined period.

Abstract: A communication device that can simplify various settings of a display device, such as a TV, that provides information regarding an object (communication device) is provided. An image capturing device (1) has a RF-ID unit (47) for performing proximity wireless communication with a RF-ID reader/writer (46) connected via an infrared communication path to a TV (45). The image capturing device (1) includes: an antenna (21) for the proximity wireless communication; a data receiving unit (105) receiving an input signal from the RF-ID reader/writer (46); a nonvolatile second memory (52) storing at least UID (75) and an execution program (116); and a data transmission unit (108) transmitting the UID (75) and the execution program (116) to the RF-ID reader/writer (46) via the antenna (21) according to the input signal. The UID (75) is used to identify the communication device, and the execution program (116) is executed by the TV (45) with reference to the UID (75).

Abstract: An LC composite component has a unique structure that makes it easy to set frequency characteristics while reducing a circuit area and the number of layers. The LC composite component includes a laminated body including a plurality of dielectric layers. The laminated body is produced by forming input and output electrodes and an LC resonant circuit therein. The LC composite component includes a capacitor, which includes an elongated electrode portion having an elongated shape. The elongated electrode portion faces a flat electrode portion having a flat shape, with one of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween. At the same time, the elongated electrode portion constitutes an open stub that is open at a tip end.