Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yoshiaki Takabatake

Takeshi Saito

Mikio Hashimoto

Yuzo Tamada

Toshio Okamoto

Keiichi Teramoto

Yukio Kamatani

Shigeyasu Natsubori

Tatsunori Kanai

Kensaku Fujimoto

Ichiro Tomoda

Junko Ami

Shigeru Maeda

Hajime Ohsawa

Kiyoshi Toshimitsu

Eiji Kamagata

Hideaki Nakakita

Yasuhiro Katsube

Minoru Namekata

Yasuro Shobatake

Toru Imai

Hisako Tanaka

Keiji Tsunoda

Tetsuro Muranaga

Shinya Amano

Sachio Kizu

Narito Kimura

Junichi Takeda

Taketoshi Tujita

A scheme for realizing a contents protection procedure between devices that are not connected to the same network, in a system where the IEEE 1394 buses are connected together through a 1394 bridge or a system where the IEEE 1394 buses are connected together through another radio network, is disclosed. A network connection device notifies information regarding a transmission node on the first IEEE 1394 bus to a reception node on the second IEEE 1394 bus, so that the reception node can carry out the authentication and key exchange procedure directly with the transmission node on a different network.

Network connection device, network connection method, and communication device realizing contents protection procedure over networks

A communication system including a first terminal device connected to first and second networks, having only a reception function with respect to the first network and transmission and reception functions with respect to the second network, the first network being a radio network according to IEEE 802.11 and the second network being a radio network slower than the first network, and a second terminal device connected to the first and second networks, having at least a transmission function with respect to the first network and transmission and reception functions with respect to the second network is disclosed. In this communication system, the first terminal device carries out a prescribed procedure required in using the first terminal as a receiving side in the first network, by carrying out communications with the second terminal device through the second network, the second terminal device transmits a prescribed information to the first network on behalf of the first terminal device, the prescribed information being an information required to be transmitted to the first network in order for the first terminal device to receive packets through the first network, and the first terminal device receives the packets through the first network.

Radio communication system and radio terminal device using faster and slower radio networks cooperatively

Communication packets having a same channel identifier are exchanged between a pair of Bluetooth devices within a Bluetooth network. The packets are passed to a lower level layer through a connection handle in which their requested quality of service is indicated. In the lower level layer, the communication packets are distributed to buffers, each of which corresponds to each type of quality of service set in the connection handle. Alternatively, a service identifier corresponding to the quality of service is given to the communication packets in the lower level layer, and the packets are distributed to a suitable buffer based on the service identifier.

Method and device for communicating packets

A scheme for realizing AV data transfer processing utilizing the transport layer protocol such as RTP protocol, between radio terminals in a radio system for carrying out data transfer after establishing a logical connection between radio terminals prior to data transfer between radio terminals such as Bluetooth is disclosed. In the case of transferring data packets containing an AV stream and exchanging control packets containing control information regarding transfer of the data packets, different logical channels are assigned to the data packets and the control packet so that the data packets and the control packet are transferred by these different logical channels.

Data transfer method and radio terminal for executing transport layer protocol on radio network

A data transmitting node and a network inter-connection node suitable for use in the home network environment. In a case of transmitting information data from a data transmitting node connected with a physical network to a receiving node connected with the physical network or another physical network, a data transmitting node transmits the control message including an IP address information of a data transmission destination, a header/channel information dependent on the physical network, and an information indicating that the information data to be transmitted according to the header/channel information is data in an upper layer of an IP layer. The information data is then transmitted to the receiving node, where the information data contains the header/channel information and data of the upper layer without IP packet encapsulation. A network inter-connection node operates similarly.

Data transmitting node and network inter-connection node suitable for home network environment

A data transfer control device and a relay device which are suitable for use in the home network environment. For a case of controlling transfer of information data to a receiving node connected with a first physical network from a transmitting node connected with a second physical network, there is provided a data transfer control device connected with the second physical network which has: an establishing unit for establishing a channel in the second physical network for transmitting the information data; a reserving unit for reserving a communication path for transferring the information data transmitted through that channel to another data transfer control device belonging to the first physical network and/or the receiving node; and a commanding unit for commanding the transmitting node to transmit the information data through that channel, by using a protocol depending oh the second physical network.

Data transfer control device, relay device and control device suitable for home network environment

In a broadcast type service system using communications according to Bluetooth specification, a reception information providing device is provided in order to receive a reception establishing information of each transmission device transmitted from each transmission device which is necessary for a reception device to receive application data transmitted from each transmission device, and to transmit the reception establishing information of a specified transmission device to a prescribed reception device, such that the prescribed reception device can receive application data transmitted from the specified transmission device according to the reception establishing information of the specified transmission device received from the reception information providing device.

Broadcast type service system using bluetooth type radio network

In the disclosed registration and authentication scheme, in the case of carrying out the registration and authentication of a wireless terminal with respect to a wireless base station provided inside the home, for example, a user of the wireless terminal must directly operate the wireless base station. For this reason, it is possible to prevent the registration and authentication of a wireless terminal of an external user who cannot easily operate the wireless base station, and thereby it is possible to realize the secure and easy registration and authentication processing even when the wireless communications are used.

Scheme for registration and authentication in wireless communication system using wireless LAN

A relay device and a communication device capable of realizing the contents protection procedure between devices that are not connected to the same network are disclosed. A relay device and a communication device are so configured that between a device/service/sub-unit on the second network and a device on the first network which are a pair that is carrying out transmission or reception of contents to be protected, a device on the first network or a device/service/sub-unit on the second network can carry out the contents protection procedure while recognizing the target of the contents protection procedure as the relay device, so that there is no need for a device on the first network or a device/service/sub-unit on the second network to account for the other network that is connected via the relay device.

Relay device and communication device realizing contents protection procedure over networks

The disclosed communication node has a function for recognizing one communication node on the first network as one of constituent elements in own communication node, and a function for disclosing an own configuration information regarding the constituent elements as recognized above, to another communication node on the second network. Also, the disclosed communication terminal has a function for disclosing functions in the own communication terminal as Sub Units in an AV/C (Audio/Visual Control) protocol executed on an IEEE 1394 bus, and a function for receiving at least a part of information regarding Sub Units existing in the communication node on the second network with which it is communicating. Together, these communication node and communication terminal make it possible to transmit various information transferred on the IEEE 1394 bus, to the radio node that is connected by the radio interface, and it becomes possible to execute the data communications as if the connection to the IEEE 1394 bus is made by the radio interface.

Communication node and communication terminal

A scheme for managing nodes connected to a home network according to their physical location is disclosed. A communication device constituting each node is formed by at least one communication unit for carrying out communications through a connected network, having communication ports for connecting nodes through which data are to be exchanged by the nodes, and a configuration information memory unit for storing a configuration information regarding a configuration of the communication device, having a region for dynamically describing a location information regarding a physical location of the communication device. At a managing node, a configuration information of a connected network and a location information regarding a physical location of a prescribed node connected to the network are collected, and physical locations of other nodes/services that are connected to the prescribed node are managed by regarding the other nodes/services as existing at an identical physical location as the physical location of the prescribed node as specified by the location information.

Scheme for managing nodes connected to a home network according to their physical locations

A radio terminal or gateway capable of executing the AV/C protocol on the datalink protocol which starts communications after setting up a logical channel on a radio network is disclosed. The radio terminal or gateway transfers data packets according to the stored correspondence information among the protocol identifier, the channel identifier that is set up for the radio terminal or gateway, and the channel identifier that is set up for a correspondent radio terminal or gateway, where the correspondence information is obtained through an exchange of signaling packets containing the channel identifier indicating a logical channel that is set up for transferring the data packets and the protocol identifier indicating the AV control protocol.

Information transfer method radio terminal and radio gateway device using datalink layer signaling of protocol identifier

A communication node for enabling interworking of a first network in which data transfer is based on a combination of request and response and a second network in which data transfer is not based on a combination of request and response is disclosed. In the communication node, a packet conversion processing is applied to a first packet received by the first interface on the first network side so as to obtain a second packet corresponding to the second network at a time of executing an application across the first network and the second network, and a correspondence between the first packet and the second packet is stored in a packet correspondence memory. Then, a destination node on the first network to which a response packet is to be transferred is identified by referring to the packet correspondence memory using an information of the response packet at a time of receiving the response packet corresponding to the second packet by the second interface on the second network side.

Communication node for enabling internetworking of network using request/response based data transfer and network using non-request/response based data transfer

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiaki Takabatake