A system and method executed by audio processing software on one or more electronic devices in a computer system to process digital audio signals. The system comprises a digitizer for digitizing a received audio signal; and processor for performing a plurality of audio processing functions on the digitized audio signals, each of the audio processing functions having at least one programmable parameter, and wherein each of the audio processing functions are categorized and grouped as audio objects, and organized into a channel strip, the channel strip processing digitized audio signals for a particular received audio signal, and wherein, the audio objects are fixed in order, so that the digitized received audio signals are processed by a predefined number of N audio objects, and wherein the N audio objects occur in a fixed sequence, and further wherein, the N audio objects comprise a first subset of non-exchangeable audio objects and a second subset of exchangeable audio objects, such that any one or more of the second subset of audio objects can be exchanged by a replacement audio object, and further wherein when the audio processing functions are programmed, they can be saved without compiling the audio processing software.

A method and apparatus for improving forwarding performance of a chip are disclosed. The method includes: when a chip receives a message, judging whether the message is a protocol message required to be processed, if the message is the protocol message required to be processed, performing MAC learning, and if the message is not the protocol message required to be processed, determining whether to perform learning after performing calculation according to a current actual time value of the chip and a preset empirical value. The apparatus includes: a first judgment module and a second judgment module. With the method and apparatus of the embodiments of the present document, an MAC learning intensity of the chip can be relieved to a great extent, thereby improving the forwarding performance of the chip.

A congestion control mechanism for TCP communication sessions is described. The congestion control mechanism adjusts the size of the congestion window based on a number of parallel virtual TCP Hybla connections. The number of parallel virtual TCP Hybla connections used to determine the congestion window can be dynamically adjusted. The enhanced TCP Hybla congestion control mechanism provides improved throughput for heterogenous networks having a high latency link and having possible packet loss.

A system comprises premises devices located at a premises. A gateway device is located at the premises and may communicate with the premises devices. A server is configured to interact with the premises devices and the gateway device. A touchscreen device may communicate with the server and configured to interact with the premises devices. The touchscreen device includes a user interface configured to interact with the gateway device. The user interface is configured to control interactions between the premises devices and the gateway device and trigger, based on at least one automation rule, an action of at least one of the premises devices. Corresponding methods, apparatuses and other systems are also provided.

A device control method, a server, a system and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving account information, a device identifier and a device control instruction sent by a user terminal (S101); acquiring a universal infrared controller identifier corresponding to the device identifier, and infrared pulse parameters corresponding to the device control instruction (S102); sending the infrared pulse parameters to the universal infrared controller corresponding to the universal infrared controller identifier through a home gateway corresponding to the account information; wherein the infrared pulse parameters are provided for the universal infrared controller to generate an infrared pulse instruction used to control a device corresponding to the device identifier to execute a corresponding operation (S103).

According to an example, a counter update determination module may receive a counter address for a local counter and map the counter address to a specific forwarding mode of a plurality of forwarding modes. In addition, a remote processing module may receive a posted value associated with the local counter. The remote processing module may include a plurality of forwarding engines respectively associated with a mapped forwarding mode. A forwarding engine of the plurality of forwarding engines may be selected based on the mapped forwarding mode, and the selected forwarding engine may forward the posted value to a remote device for remote processing.

A shutter control system for use with a network. The shutter control system includes a network device coupled to the network to communicate an indication. The shutter control system also includes a shutter controller configured to receive the indication, to determine if the indication meets a predefined condition, and, in response to the indication meeting the predefined condition, to communicate an actuation signal. A shutter device, having at least one motor, receives the actuation signal, and operates the at least one motor based on the received actuation signal.

Embodiments of the invention generally relate to address resolution in a wireless communication system. The access node may locally determine, responsive to receiving a second-layer network address associated with a destination communication device from a source communication device in the wireless communication system, a first-layer network address of the destination communication device from the second-layer network address. The access node may send, responsive to the first-layer network address being unavailable, a request for the first-layer network address to an address resolution server in the wireless communication system. In this way, the time and resources for address resolution may be saved, and the efficiency of the address resolution may be improved.

There is provided a method for network address translation. The method is performed by a gateway. The method comprises acquiring an in-packet Bloom Filter (iBF) representation of a node. The method comprises embedding an indication of the iBF representation in an IP address, thereby enabling translation of the iBF representation of the node to an IP address of the node. There is also presented a gateway configured to perform such a method and a computer program comprising computer program code which, when run on a processing unit of the gateway, causes the processing unit to perform such a method.

A protocol for use in wireless mesh networks uses helper nodes to improve data flow in the network. The protocol is compatible with traditional mesh network routing algorithms. Techniques, systems, devices, and circuits for implementing the protocol are described.