Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090013067 | Data transfer system, data transfer method and data transfer apparatus - A transmitter-side access point measures a transmission delay between the transmitter-side access point and a receiver-side access point, and calculates a threshold based on the transmission delay. Unless the amount of data from a source user terminal exceeds the threshold, the transmitter-side access point transmits data over a network in response to a request from the receiver-side access point. When the amount of data from the source user terminal exceeds the threshold, the data is transported as being stored in a physical medium to the receiver-side access point through transportation service. The receiver-side access point obtains the data from the transported physical medium, and transfers the data to a destination user terminal. | 01-08-2009 |
20090265459 | PROVIDING APPARATUS OF SERVICE INFORMATION AND PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - A providing apparatus of service information provided over a network collects service information and/or service components provided over a network and is triggered by setting of a scenario (such as content such as a combination of service components or service information) to extract available service components for the scenario from the service information or the service components to generate integrated service information with the use of the service components based on the scenario. A scenario and a policy (selection criteria of service components) are set and the service components conforming to the policy are selected to create the integrated service information based on the scenario. | 10-22-2009 |
20100100768 | NETWORK FAILURE DETECTING SYSTEM, MEASUREMENT AGENT, SURVEILLANCE SERVER, AND NETWORK FAILURE DETECTING METHOD - Measurement agents in a network failure detecting system each configure a group together with other measurement agents that receive a service from the same provision server, and form a link to create a tree structure with a predetermined measurement agent in the group at its top. The measurement agent then receives measurement results from the other measurement agents in the group, and narrows down candidates of a failure location based on the received measurement results. The measurement agent transmits the narrowed candidates of the failure location to a surveillance server or one of the other measurement agents. The surveillance server then receives the transmitted candidates of the failure location, and specifies the failure location based on the received candidates of the failure location. | 04-22-2010 |
20100250736 | Connection State Estimating Device, Connection State Estimating Method and Storage Medium - A connection state estimating method includes: acquiring a network distance between respective devices in a communication network; assuming branch point candidates at which three devices extracted from the network are connected together; calculating the network distance between each of the assumed branch point candidates and each of the three devices; classifying all the branch point candidates assumed to be connected with one of the devices into groups on the basis of the network distance between the one device and each branch point candidate; calculating representative values of the network distances between each device and branch point candidates assumed to be connected with the device; and selecting a device from the devices assumed to be connected with one of the branch point candidates and the representative value relating to the selected device. | 09-30-2010 |
20100322081 | ABNORMALITY LOCATING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An abnormality locating apparatus locates an abnormal location in a network. An abnormal location judging part judges a normality or abnormality of a link based on a normality or abnormality of an observation flow, by acquiring information of links through which each observation flow passes, from a network route information storage that stores passing route information of observation flows passing through the links. A diagnosis accuracy judging part judges that an accuracy of judging the normality or abnormality of a connecting link connected to a first node deteriorates, by acquiring links connected to each relay node as connecting links from a relay node connecting link information storage that stores connecting link information of each relay node, and judging that a relay node having all connecting links thereof that are abnormal is the first node having all observation flows passing therethrough that are abnormal. | 12-23-2010 |
20110075582 | DELAY TIME MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DELAY TIME MEASUREMENT PROGRAM AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A CPU executes a process including determining a core node among plural relay nodes on a basis of route information, acquiring a first and a second packets flowing between a server and a terminal apparatus, the second packet being transmitted on a basis of the first packet, calculating a first delay time on a basis of the first and the second packets, the first delay time relating to packet transmission between the server and the terminal apparatus, transmitting a third packet to the core node, receiving a response to the third packet from the core node, calculating a second delay time on a basis of the third packet and the response, the second delay time being a delay time of the core node, and calculating a third delay time being a delay time of an end node on a basis of the first and the second delay times. | 03-31-2011 |
20110149805 | NETWORK GROUP DETERMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF STORING NETWORK GROUP DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A network group determination device includes an acquisition section, a comparison section and a determination section. The acquisition section acquires first communication information representing a state of communication between a first repeater on a network and a specific network group on the network, and second communication information representing a state of communication between a second repeater on the network and the network group. The comparison section makes a comparison of a difference between the first communication information and the second communication information to third communication information between the first repeater and the second repeater. The determination section makes, according to a result of the comparison by the comparison section, a determination of a position of the network group with respect to the first repeater and the second repeater. | 06-23-2011 |
20110170402 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY TREE - From an observed packet, the hop number, which is the number of nodes that the packet has passed through, and a bottleneck bandwidth, which is a bottleneck for transmitting the packet, are determined so as to detect loss failures. Thereby, the subnet that transmitted the observed packet is located as a node in a topology tree on the basis of the determined hop count and bottleneck bandwidth. When a loss failure, by which the packet is lost, is detected, subnets that are inappropriately arranged are extracted from the arrangement in the topology tree of the loss-failure-detected subnet, and the arrangement of the extracted subnets is modified in order to resolve the inappropriateness. | 07-14-2011 |
20110176584 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system including: a first device that includes first and second units and a first encapsulation unit encapsulating data; a second device that includes a third unit communicating data with the second unit, a fourth unit, and a second encapsulation unit encapsulating data; a third device that includes a fifth unit communicating data with the first or third unit, a sixth unit, and a third encapsulation unit encapsulating data; and a fourth device that includes a seventh unit communicating data with the first or third unit, an eighth unit communicating data with the fifth unit, and a fourth encapsulation unit encapsulating data; wherein at least two of the first to fourth devices include control units that control the units that the at least two of the first to fourth devices have, so as not to transfer received data to other devices. | 07-21-2011 |
20110188510 | DATA CONVERSION DEVICE AND DATA CONVERSION METHOD - A data conversion device includes a receiving unit that receives first data and second data, transmitting after a start of the first data, transmitted from the first device to the second device, a transmitting unit that transmits the received first data and second data to a third device, and a control unit that controls a time point of transmitting the second data from the transmitting unit to lengthen a time interval between transmission of the first data and second data from the transmitting unit than a first time interval between transmission of the first data from the transmitting unit and reception of response data to the first data by the receiving unit when the first time interval is longer than a time interval between the transmission of the first data and second data from the first device to the second device. | 08-04-2011 |
20120147890 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A TRANSFER DESTINATION OF A PACKET ORIGINATING FROM A VIRTUAL MACHINE - Transfer destination of a packet originating from a virtual machine is controlled so as to allow a capture device arranged in a communication network to capture a packet that is transferred using a communication tunnel. A first server acquires a first packet originating from a source virtual machine being operated by the first server, encapsulates the first packet by adding source and destination addresses. The first server further adds a transfer-destination address to the encapsulated first packet to generate a second packet when the first packet is determined to be a target packet to be captured by the capture device. Then, the first server transmits the second packet including the transfer-destination address to the second server using the communication tunnel while the second packet including the first packet is transferred to the transfer-destination address. | 06-14-2012 |
20130007740 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING COMMUNICATION PERFORMED BY A VIRTUAL MACHINE - An apparatus stores, in association with each of one or more services to be provided, a communication monitoring rule under which communication performed for providing the each of the one or more services is to be monitored. The apparatus communicates with another apparatus that is operable to run a virtual machine and run a virtual router relaying communication performed by the virtual machine. When a service to be provided by the virtual machine is selected from among the one or more services, the apparatus controls the virtual router to monitor communication performed by the virtual machine according to the communication monitoring rule associated with the selected service, by sending the communication monitoring rule to the virtual router. | 01-03-2013 |
20130014106 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A storage unit stores a correspondence between information indicating one or more services executable on one or more virtual machines and information indicating one or more users who use the services, and one or more communication monitoring rules to be used by one or more virtual routers. The rules are defined for each of the services. A control unit specifies, when a rule stored in the storing unit is changed, one or more of the users who use a service corresponding to the changed rule by referring to the storing unit. The control unit transmits the changed rule to one or more of the virtual routers which relay communication of one or more of the virtual machines assigned to the specified users so as to cause the one or more of the virtual routers, to which the changed rule is transmitted, to perform monitoring based on the changed rule. | 01-10-2013 |