A method for efficiently sending notifications over a network. A client system requests to be notified when an event occurs. A server system receives the requests and monitors for the occurrence of the event. When the event occurs a single packet using a connectionless protocol (such as User Datagram Protocol) is sent to the client to notify the client of the occurrence of the event. Using a connectionless protocol to send notification reduces the overall amount of data on the network and thus r…

A system for allowing company representatives or web site operators to monitor and track activity of visitors to their web site and proactively establish live contact with the visitor using text messaging. A customer service representative of a website operator can instantly send a message to a visitor in order to help them obtain the most relevant information desired, and to directly answer any questions the visitor may have. A radar screen provides information to the website operator of how pe…

A method of provisioning a connection across a SONET/SDU network formed from multiple sub-networks comprises: determining a model of the entire network, the model indicating the connections between all sub-networks, and representing each sub-network as a single unit; calculating a route between the sub-networks containing the first and second nodes using the model; passing the signals along the determined route, and determining the route between nodes within each sub-network locally within the r…

A remote proxy generator (300) generates a remote proxy class for use in client-side communications for communications between a client application (108) and a server object (110). A client-side type generator (302) generates a type object (174) that represents a class of the server object (110) and provides access to methods (190) of the server object (110). A client-side function generator (304) generates one or more function objects (172) corresponding in number to one or more methods (190) o…

A message broker data processing apparatus has a unit for receiving published messages on a topic from a publisher application; a unit for processing the received messages; and a unit for distributing the processed messages to subscriber applications; wherein the unit for distributing includes a plurality of subscription point data processing nodes, a first subscription point data processing node distributes messages to a subscriber application which has previously registered a subscription requ…

A network management apparatus is described which includes a port for connecting to a network for receiving management data from network devices on the network. The network management apparatus includes a processor for processing the received management data and for determining substantially a complete topology of the network and providing image data representative of the network topology. The apparatus further includes a display for receiving the image data and displaying a graphical representa…

A network comprises an IEEE 1394 sub-network serving as a wire-communication system at the high-level layer, and a plurality of radio-communication terminals (radio-communication nodes) which form DHCP clients. The IEEE 1394 sub-network constitutes an in-home LAN (Local Network Area). The IEEE 1394 sub-network includes antenna base stations each serving as a DHCP server. The antenna base stations have a pool comprising a predetermined number of addresses which are assigned automatically to radio…

In a digital telecommunications network having first and second addressing zones, a name and address server in the first addressing zone receiving from a first address of the first zone, assigned to a source machine, a request to provide an address in relation to the name of a destination machine situated in the second addressing zone, sends to a second address of the first zone a first packet containing at least the said name of destination machine, said second address of the first zone being a…

A network usage data recording system and method employing an aggregation rule scheme for processing and correlation of network data is described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for recording network usage. The method includes the step of defining a network data collector including an encapsulator, an aggregator and a data storage system. A set of network accounting data is received via the encapsulator. The network accounting data set is converted to a standard data …

An invention is disclosed for a control module, executed as part of an application, that includes application-specific strategies for the application, yet can be coded using the JAVA programming language. In one embodiment, a system for providing application-specific strategies to a JAVA platform is disclosed that includes a runtime subsystem and an application, which includes a control module in communication with the runtime subsystem. The application further includes a plurality of service mo…