Telecom Italia S.p.a.

Sip - Societa Italiana Per L-esercizio Delle Telecomunicazioni P.a.

Claudio Benenti

Paolo Destefanis

Antonio Cavallaro

Ennio Grasso

Piero Lovisolo

Giovanni Martini

Alessandro Perrucci

Piergiorgio Bosco

Andrea Scoscina

Alessandro Cama

A method for managing in network equipment of a communication network anonymous communications between a first and a second mobile user apparatus includes: a) receiving from the first mobile user apparatus, through a first network connection, data indicating that a short-range wireless connection between the first mobile user apparatus and the second mobile user apparatus has been established, the data including a second unique short-range wireless connection identifier associated with the second mobile user apparatus and a message for the second mobile user apparatus; b) by using the second unique short-range wireless connection identifier, obtaining a network address associated with the second mobile user apparatus; and c) by using the network address obtained in b), sending data to the second mobile user apparatus through a second network connection, the data including the message received in a) from the first mobile user apparatus and a first anonymous identifying code univocally associated with the first mobile user apparatus.

Managing anonymous communications between users based on short-range wireless connection identifiers

The device essentially consists of an adapter having a centralized unit (5) tasked with manipulating ATM flows and managing access requests, and specialized modules (3.sub.1 . . . 3.sub.k . . . 3.sub.n) which allow direct access to the ATM network by, for instance, a satellite network or a service (2.sub.1 . . . 2.sub.k . . . 2.sub.n). The centralized unit (5) dynamically allocates the available band on the ATM network access resources according to the access requests by the interface towards the outside world, by handling individual requests as separate connections.

Interfacing device for ATM networks

The peripheral unit for multi-videoconferencing permits multi-videoconferencing while fully exploiting the characteristics of a telecommunications satellite, and can also provide the service to users not connected to the ground network. In particular, the system can connect several remote rooms through a satellite network, interfaceable with a ground control center, to provide an overall mixed ground-satellite network able to simultaneously serve both permanent and temporary users. The peripheral unit is connected on one side to the transceiving station for the satellite link and on the other to the encoder and decoder of video and audio signals, which are generated locally or received from a remote station and organized according to a protocol provided with time-slot frames and superframes.

Peripheral unit for satelite multi-videoconferencing

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