The present invention disclosed and claimed herein comprises a system and method for launching a web browser on a network comprising a computer having an all new input interface and a communication interface coupled to a computer network; said audio input coupled to the audio output of a source for receiving an audio signal having encoded therein a unique code that is associated with a predetermined destination on the network; and a program operable on said computer responsive to receipt and dec...

A method of establishing a bi-directional Label Switched Path (LSP) includes an establishing request and available upstream and downstream label sets are sent from a first node to a terminal node of the LSP node-by-node. If the available upstream or downstream label set obtained by the terminal node or other nodes is null, the LSP can't be established; if the establishing request is sent to the terminal node and the received available upstream and downstream label sets are not null, the terminal...

A method and apparatus for automatic routing of multi-link circuit switched connections are shown. A routing processor monitors the behavioral characteristics of a previous connection from an originating client and stores data relating to the characteristics of the previous connection. In particular, data is stored regarding the previous connection which is not available until after call completion of the previous connection. When the originating client initiates a subsequent connection, the rou...

An emergent network is autonomous at the service level. Network nodes have policies that enable them to process different types of service requests, with the processing earning the nodes `rewards`. Successful nodes can pass some or all of their policies to other nodes using the evolutionary biology of bacteria as a model.

The clocks of remote computing devices are synchronized within a range of certainty through the determination of an upper bound and a lower bound around a reference time. A message from a computing device is propagated up a network tree of devices to a device having a reference time, which encodes the reference time and returns the message down the tree. Each receiving device can determine that the reference time could not have occurred before their transmission of the message, nor could it have...

A network interface controller includes a plurality of scatter gather circuits (104a-104d) connectable to a host via a bus (101). A packet buffer (112) is configured for communication with the scatter gather circuits (104a-104d). A plurality of access circuits (110a-110d) are configured to access external network connections. An optional forwarding engine (108) is selectable to generate routing information corresponding to data received via the access circuits (110a-110d) and to provide the rout...

A system and method for publishing a network address on a computer network. A first node in a plurality of nodes may initiate a publish operation to publish a first instance of the network address. Initiating the publish operation may comprise the first node sending a publish message to one or more other nodes in the plurality of nodes. The publish message may be propagated from at least a subset of the nodes that receive the publish message from the first node to still other nodes in the plural...

A communication controller in a device on a network automatically prevents transmission of data onto the network in response to a transmit request from a CPU of the device if a message is being received or has been received but not read or acknowledged.

A processor node of a network is provided which includes one or more processors and a virtualized channel adapter. The virtualized channel adapter is operable to reference a table to determine whether a destination of the communication is supported by the virtualized channel adapter. When the destination is supported for routing via hardware, the virtualized channel adapter is operable to route the communication via hardware to at least one of a physical port and a logical port of the virtualize...

A method and a corresponding system for managing communication between multiple instances contained within a clustered environment. The method includes generating a packet to be transmitted from a non-Java-based server node to a Java-based server node. The non-Java-based server node specifies in a header of the packet [1] a destination server node and [2] information to indicate that the packet originated from the non-Java-based server node. The method further includes forwarding the packet from...