Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd.

Shiro Tanabe

Noboru Endo

Kenichi Sakamoto

Koji Wakayama

Kazuyoshi Hoshino

Hiroki Ikeda

Yukiko Takeda

Kazuma Yumoto

Masashi Yano

Taihei Suzuki

Hui Deng

Akinori Kubo

Satoshi Shimizu

Yukio Nakano

Akihiko Takase

Hiroaki Miyata

Toru Baji

Hidenori Inouchi

Tetsuya Nakagawa

Ryoji Takeyari

Peng Yang

Yusuke Mishina

Junichirou Yanagi

Tetsuro Yoshimoto

Tsutomu Kusaki

Ken'ichi Sakamoto

Yuanchen Ma

Takeshi Maki

Yukihito Maejima

Toshiya Oouchi

Hirotsugu Kojima

Ken Nanjo

Toshiya Ouchi

Mituyuki Masui

Yoshiaki Kihara

Kazuko Wakayama

Kojii Wakayama

A data communication apparatus to be coupled to a first network and a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, includes a receiving unit which receives a data including header information indicating a destination and first header information used to identify a first Virtual Private Network (VPN) in the first network. The apparatus also includes a transmitter which transmits data having added thereto a MPLS header information used to identify one of the plurality of second VPNs in the MPLS network, the MPLS header information corresponding to both the header information indicating the destination and the first header information used to identify the first VPN in the first network included in the received data.

VPN composing method, interwork router, packet communication method, data communication apparatus, and packet relaying apparatus

A session QoS control arrangement wherein for an occurrence of user session information indicating a change of user state and/or a change of session condition from a user communication terminal: said session information analysis means analyses the session state of the user terminal in real-time by referring to said session management database and said user preference database; and, said session QoS control means determines the QoS policy for the user session in real-time, based on the result of session analysis performed by said session information analysis means.

Session QoS control apparatus

A method serves to compose a VPN (Virtual Private Network) over a plurality of networks, each of which is managed by a different Internet Service Provider (ISP). When a packet with a first capsule header used for composing a VPN in a first ISP network is transmitted to a second ISP network, a route for outputting the packet to the second ISP network is determined based on the information both in the capsule header and in the IP header. In addition, a second capsule header used for composing a VPN in the second ISP network is determined based on the above information.

The objective of the invention is to provide a mobile communication control method and mobile communication system in which mobile IPv6 and SIP are integrated by a core network of 3GPP2. In the mobile communication system, the mobile node MN executes a registration procedure for a Care-of-Address acquired in a visited network by the communication between the mobile node and a home agent server HA, executes a registration procedure for the Care-of-Address by the communication between the mobile node and an SIP server, and executes a communication procedure for session establishment by the communication between the mobile node MN and a correspondent node not through the home agent server but through the SIP server.

Mobile communication control method and mobile communication system

A session QoS control apparatus includes a session management database in which session management information per user terminal is stored, a user preference database in which user preference information representing the user state and QoS requirement associated with the identifier of a user communication terminal is stored, and a user communication terminal and router management database in which mapping between a user terminal and a network node to which the terminal is connected is stored. Upon receiving user session information, the apparatus analyses the user session information by referring to the session management and user preference databases and determines a QoS policy for the session between caller and callee terminals. From the user communication terminal and router management database, the apparatus retrieves a node on which the session QoS policy should be set and transmits a QoS command to the node to set the session QoS policy on the node.

This invention provides a method of implementing a multi-party conference service (MPCS) using broadcast/multicast service of a wireless communications system used for a conference focus, the context of a corresponding broadcast/multicast service session is generated based on the media flow information, multicast service session information and MPCS information. The generated context of the broadcast/multicast service session is then sent respectively to at least one content provider server, at least one mobile terminal and the broadcast/multicast service controller so that the one or more mobile terminals acquires the content media flow through the broadcast/multicast service session.

Method of implementing multi-party conference service by using broadcast/multicast service of a wireless communications system

A packet switching apparatus is constructed by a basic module disposed in the apparatus casing and an additional module disposed on the outside of the apparatus casing. The basic module has a common processing function irrespective of an access method and a service type, an interface accommodating lines to be connected to the Internet, and a plurality of interface boards conformed to a specific access method by which a hardware scale may be small. Only the basic module functions as a packet switching apparatus, and a processing function peculiar to each access method and service type is executed by the additional module.

Packet switching apparatus

A server for controlling a gateway connecting a transport layer and an IP network has the function of accessing a service control point (SCP) via a service control gateway . A server for controlling terminals on the IP network stores information of correspondence between telephone number of a terminal and the IP address. When a signal including number information which requires an access to the SCP is received from a terminal managed by the server , an interrogation request is multicasted to the other servers each having the function of accessing the SCP. A server which has sent a response signal accesses the SCP via the service control gateway to provide an IN service process.

Communication method for terminals connected to IP networks to receive services provided by intelligent networks

A method serves to compose a VPN (Virtual Private Network) over a plurality networks each of which is managed by different Internet Service Providers (ISP). When a packet with a first capsule header used for composing a VPN in a first ISP network is transmitted to a second ISP network, a route for outputting packet to the second ISP network is determined based on the information both in the capsule header and in the IP header. In addition, a second capsule header used for composing a VPN in the second ISP network is determined based on the above information.

Packet terminal and packet communication network

A mobile communication network is provided with a plurality of base stations each of which communicates with a plurality of mobile stations, a plurality of base station controllers (BSC) or control stations each of which is connected to a group of base stations, and switching centers each of which is connected to a plurality of BSC's. The BSC's are interconnected by an exclusive network and terminal information of the mobile stations are stored by the respective local service points (SCP) of the BSC's in a decentralized manner. When an authentication processing and the retrieval of location data for a mobile station is to be made by each BSC and in the case where necessary terminal information is not held in the local SCP of that BSC, the BSC broadcasts a request message for transfer of terminal information or vicarious execution of authentication processing to other BSC's through the exclusive network and waits for a response message from a BSC in which the necessary terminal information is held.

Mobile communication network and control method thereof

A trigger is armed to a predetermined detection point (DP) of a basic call state model controlled for each call by a switching system so that a service control point (SCP) can be unconditionally activated. The SCP stores service control information for each time band in such a manner as to correspond to each user. When a first control signal is received from the switching system, the DP which is determined by the service control information is notified to the switching system and the switching system arms the trigger to this DP. When the state of the call shifts to a specific DP to which the trigger is armed because a called party is busy or does not answer, for example, the switching system sends a second control signal to the SCP, and the SCP notifies a terminating terminal equipment determined by the service control information in response to the second control signal.

Telecommunications service control method in intelligent network

Distributed LANs are connected to a wide area network through terminal adapters, which are interconnected by virtual circuits to form a logical bus network. Each terminal adapter copies cells received through the virtual circuit that is allocated for multicasting, and transfers the copied cells to the adjacent terminal adapters via preset virtual circuits. The terminal adapters assemble a part or all of the transmitted message from the received cells and, according to the contents of the assembled message, transfer the copies of the cells to the adjacent terminal adapters through predetermined virtual circuits.

Multicast communications method

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Shiro Tanabe