The present invention provides a protocol and associated method for enhancing the throughput and response time performance of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) applications and services in Internet and Intranet environments that use the TCP/IP protocol suite, e.g., HTTP Internet browsers, HTTP servers, FTP servers, etc. The protocol of the present invention, termed Communication Enhancement Protocol (CEP), comprises a flow control method that functions to maximize the perf...

The microcomputer shall be offered which has realized more simplified peripheral circuits and more reduced price, besides being provided with the functions of timer, runaway monitor and backup logic. To that effect, the address register and the register are installed which have two areas each in correspondence with two tasks (CPU0 and CPU1) to perform a pipeline processing of the two tasks in parallel and in time division by changing over alternately the two areas of the address register and the...

A method and Internet system is provided that attempts to improve response times by automatically selecting for use a server (e.g., mirror server or alternative server) located relatively close to a requesting host. Alternatively, the method and Internet system can automatically select for use a server (e.g., alternative server) that is relatively appropriate for the requesting host. More specifically, the Internet system can operate to select the closest server or the most appropriate server fr...

According to an aspect of the disclosure, the present invention provides methods and arrangements for using the internet and an internet access appliance to share images, wherein the images are captured, downloaded, and sent to a server. At the server, the images are parsed and posted to a web page. Subsequent communication is automatically sent to individuals selected by the sender to notify them of the posting of new images. The present invention provides an effective and efficient manner in w...

The present invention is directed towards a method of processing an e-mail message that includes a representation of an envelope. The electronic envelope includes a time stamp, sender identity identification and/or other objects that are displayed on a computer screen of the user. Upon initiation of a user action when a cursor is positioned at a screen location corresponding to the time stamp or sender identity identification, this action causes the computer to connect to a location associated w...

An internet service node (ISN) enabling the provision of desired service policies to each subscriber. The desired service policies for each subscriber are provided as an input. The desired service policies are translated into processing rules. Each processing rule contains a classifier and associated action. A classifier generally identifies the application data flows to which the action may be applied to provide the desired service policies. The processing rules may be generated dynamically to ...

A connector for use in a network interface including a connector housing, preferably formed of a conductive material such as aluminum. The housing includes a receptacle face that defines a receptacle opening. A receptacle of the connector is attached to an interior surface of the housing and suitable for receiving a terminus of the network cable through the receptacle opening. The connector has a connector circuit including a cable port coupled to the network cable and an interface port coupled ...

An application caching system and method are provided wherein one or more applications may be cached throughout a distributed computer network. The system may include a central cache directory server, one or more distributed master application servers and one or more distributed application cache servers. The system may permit a service, such as a search, to be provided to the user more quickly.

An information communicating apparatus and method are featured in retrieving one or more device constituting a network which satisfies predetermined conditions (e.g., connector type and data transfer speed) and has a communication port not connected to another unit of device. The retrieved device is then graphically displayed on a display screen. Users can be informed of the device having a vacant port in a manner easy to understand, and add-on of new device to the network can be realized readil...

A method and apparatus for embedding of bytecode data in a transport stream is described. Embodiments of the invention serve to make Java.TM. bytecode (in a class file) concurrently available to a user that is receiving media information through a transport stream. To ensure the concurrent delivery of bytecode, the information is embedded within spaces allocated in the transport stream, or in packets that carry the media data. In one embodiment of the invention, media data is grouped in structur...