Fujitsu Corporation

Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Takeshi Okamoto

Hideyasu Kanemaki

Minoru Yamaguchi

Noriki Nio

Hidehiko Wakabayashi

Ikuo Taoka

Eitarou Hiraga

Toshikatsu Atarashi

Satoshi Fudatate

Toshiya Numazawa

Katsuhisa Iriya

Namiko Imanari

Hikaru Shibata

Yoko Sasaki

A method of improving the quality of a starch-containing food and a method of suppressing the retrogradation of a starch-containing food by adding an enzyme having a glycosyl transfer activity, whereby an &#x3b1;-1,4 bond is converted into an &#x3b1;-1,6 bond, to the starch-containing food; and a quality improving agent for a starch-containing food which contains the enzyme.

Method of improving properties of starch-containing food and property-improving agent

A method of reserving a transmission band of a transmission line for transmitting data via a plurality of Internet service providers on the Internet between first and second communication devices includes the steps of (a) the first communication device requesting an intermediary server to reserve the transmission band and (b) the intermediary server reserving the transmission band for the first and second communication devices.

Method and device for reserving transmission band on internet

A communication system and method which automatically assign an appropriate emulated LAN (ELAN) domain to each attached end station. In the LAN emulation configuration server, an ATM address manager manages the associations between LAN stations and their relevant LAN emulation servers. When the identifier of a LAN station is given, it returns the ATM address of a suitable server for that station. To send such address requests, each LAN emulation client has an ATM address requesting unit. The ATM address requesting unit also requests the LAN emulation server to provide the ATM address of a broadcast server for the assigned ELAN. The obtained ATM addresses are stored and managed in an ELAN configuration database, together with the identifiers of stations and information about established network connections. Based on those operating parameters stored in the ELAN configuration database, a data communication unit conducts communication sessions between peer LAN stations.

Communications system and method with emulated-LAN assignment capabilities

An ARP server which can inform a calling terminal of an address suitable for an intended communication with a receiving terminal among a plurality of addresses usable for that purpose. The ARP server is equipped with an ATMARP table consisting of a plurality of unit tables each of which correlates an IP address and a plurality of ATM addresses. When receiving an inquiry about an ATM address corresponding to a certain IP address, the ARP server checks free bandwidths of circuits relating to respective ATM addresses in a unit table that corresponds to the IP address of interest, and informs the terminal that issued the inquiry of an ATM address with the largest free bandwidth.

ARP server

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takeshi Okamoto