Abstract: To realize a handover in which a gateway connecting to the access networks using different protocols is an anchor. In a communication system, the gateway holds a service identifier management table for converting a service identifier of different kind with the protocol into a PDN identifier, and at the time of handover, specifies a session to be held with the user identifier and the PDN identifier, selects the same PDN connected to the movement source, and reassigns the same IP address that has been already assigned at the movement source.

Abstract: A communication system comprising a home server, an access gateway, and a policy server, wherein the policy server transmits, to the first access gateway, a link creation request for associating a communication path of the first terminal and a communication path of the second terminal; and the access gateway sets a fifth communication path which connects the first communication path and the third communication path upon receiving the link creation request, records information on the set fifth communication path in the communication path management information, and transmits the data from the first terminal via the first communication path to the second terminal via the fifth communication path and the third communication path based on the communication path management information.

Abstract: In a radio communication system wherein radio frequencies for communicating with a radio terminal are different in radio base stations, a table in which positional information, information on the frequency used for transmission/reception to/from the terminal, and a decision condition in a handoff operation are stored as to each base station is prepared in a base station controller beforehand. When the positional information is received from the radio terminal, the base station controller selects the base station being a handoff candidate, on the basis of the positional information of the radio terminal, the positional information of each base station and the decision condition of the handoff operation with reference to the table, and it transmits a handoff request message which contains the information on the frequency of the base station being the handoff candidate, to the radio terminal through the base station communicating with the radio terminal.

Abstract: To realize a handover in which a gateway connecting to the access networks using different protocols is an anchor. In a communication system, the gateway holds a service identifier management table for converting a service identifier of different kind with the protocol into a PDN identifier, and at the time of handover, specifies a session to be held with the user identifier and the PDN identifier, selects the same PDN connected to the movement source, and reassigns the same IP address that has been already assigned at the movement source.

Abstract: A communication system comprising a home server, an access gateway, and a policy server, wherein the policy server transmits, to the first access gateway, a link creation request for associating a communication path of the first terminal and a communication path of the second terminal; and the access gateway sets a fifth communication path which connects the first communication path and the third communication path upon receiving the link creation request, records information on the set fifth communication path in the communication path management information, and transmits the data from the first terminal via the first communication path to the second terminal via the fifth communication path and the third communication path based on the communication path management information.

Abstract: In a radio communication system wherein radio frequencies for communicating with a radio terminal are different in radio base stations, a table in which positional information, information on the frequency used for transmission/reception to/from the terminal, and a decision condition in a handoff operation are stored as to each base station is prepared in a base station controller beforehand. When the positional information is received from the radio terminal, the base station controller selects the base station being a handoff candidate, on the basis of the positional information of the radio terminal, the positional information of each base station and the decision condition of the handoff operation with reference to the table, and it transmits a handoff request message which contains the information on the frequency of the base station being the handoff candidate, to the radio terminal through the base station communicating with the radio terminal.

Abstract: A radio communication system arranged to deliver multimedia information into a plurality of mobile stations is arranged to deliver the multimedia information according to the wave circumstances of each mobile station, layer the information components composing the multimedia information, create the frame containing the layered information components and the transmission priorities of the components, connect the frames on a multimedia information unit, and then transmit the connected frames to a base station.

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus for communicating with a base station is provided with the function of specifying the type of an application from header information of an IP packet issued by the application, searching for a set of radio parameters for assuring a Quality of Service (QoS) required by the application from a conversion table having been prepared beforehand, and automatically setting up a new session based on the set of radio parameters.

Abstract: A radio communication system arranged to deliver multimedia information into a plurality of mobile stations is arranged to deliver the multimedia information according to the wave circumstances of each mobile station, layer the information components composing the multimedia information, create the frame containing the layered information components and the transmission priorities of the components, connect the frames on a multimedia information unit, and then transmit the connected frames to a base station.

Abstract: A radio communication system arranged to deliver multimedia information into a plurality of mobile stations is arranged to deliver the multimedia information according to the wave circumstances of each mobile station, layer the information components composing the multimedia information, create the frame containing the layered information components and the transmission priorities of the components, connect the frames on a multimedia information unit, and then transmit the connected frames to a base station.

Abstract: A radio communication system arranged to deliver multimedia information into a plurality of mobile stations is arranged to deliver the multimedia information according to the wave circumstances of each mobile station, layer the information components composing the multimedia information, create the frame containing the layered information components and the transmission priorities of the components, connect the frames on a multimedia information unit, and then transmit the connected frames to a base station.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to achieve optimum navigation services for moving means types corresponding to automobiles, bicycles, wheelchairs and walking. Moving means type information about a moving means type to be used by a user who desires the supply of route information is produced, and a starting position data on a starting position from which the user starts is obtained. A map of an area surrounding the starting position is extracted from map data for the moving means type and the same map is displayed. A destination to which the user desires to travel is specified, map data for the moving means type is searched for a route by using the starting position and the destination as keys for retrieval, and an optimum route for the moving means type is extracted.