In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is disclosed apparatus, method sand storage mediums with computer-readable instructions for transmitting aggregated packets, comprising dividing a plurality of data units into ordered groups and advantageously encoding sub-headers for the data units to be aggregated. In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is disclosed apparatus, method sand storage mediums with computer-readable instructions for receiving the aggregated packets with the advantageously encoding sub-headers.

The invention relates to a method for accessing a field device in order to simplify and/or improve web access to a field device. The field device is connected to a field bus designed for an Industrial Ethernet protocol or ProfiNET, and the method comprises transmitting a request from a web browser to a web server implemented in the field device, processing the received request in the field device by using a protocol stack of the Industrial Ethernet protocol, the protocol stack being stored in the field device, and transmitting response information from the web server to the web browser. The web server is implemented in the communication chip of the field device and both the communication with the controller and the web server use the same ProfiNET stack. The invention further relates to a field device designed to perform the method, and to a communication chip.

A distributed networking system and protocol is provided to a networking system with a modular design. The distributed networking system may include a networking system, modules, control module, user interface module, input/output module, network module, data transmission network, hybrid modules and composite modules. A method to interface with accessories of a system with a modular design using the distributed networking system and protocol is also provided.

A Location/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) mapping server, including: a network interface for communicating with a LISP-enabled network; a mapping database; an extranet policy table; and a shared subnetwork mapping engine (SSME), including at least a hardware platform, configured to: receive a map request from a first endpoint serviced by a first xTR, the first endpoint on a first subnetwork, the map request for a second endpoint; determine that the second endpoint is not a member of the first subnetwork; query the extranet policy table to identify a second subnetwork that the first subnetwork subscribes to, and to determine that the second endpoint is a member of the second subnetwork; and provide to the first subnetwork a routing locator (RLOC) of an xTR servicing the second endpoint.

A method for communicating between motorized power tools includes establishing, using a physical interface of a first power tool, a wireless radio link between the first power tool and a second power tool. The first power tool has a first motor and the second power tool has a second motor. A signal is received over the wireless radio link, via the physical interface, at the first power tool from the second power tool using a first wireless communication protocol. The signal includes an identifier. The second power tool is verified as authorized to send the signal to the first power tool based on the identifier. A tool component of the first power tool is controlled responsive to the signal.

Facilitating elastic distributed computing for resource intensive tasks including split rendering in advanced networks is provided herein. Operations of a system include receiving information indicative of a request for split rendering for an application executing at a user equipment. The information is received via a session description protocol session. The operations can also include, based on the information indicative of the request, determining that an available computational resource capacity at the user equipment is insufficient to process the application executing at the user equipment. Further, the operations can include, based on the determining, enabling a first rendering of a first portion of the application at a first device and a second rendering of a second portion of the application at a second device different from the first device.

A method includes receiving a data stream from a mobile network having one or more vendor's equipment and one or more wireless technologies; decoding a message from the data stream based on what port the message was received on, wherein the port is used to automatically detect how the decoding performs based on one or more of vendor's equipment and wireless technology; converting the message to a common output format based on the decoding, wherein the common output format is a same format for the one or more vendor's equipment and the one or more wireless technologies; and providing the message in the common output format for subsequent processing.

Various example embodiments for supporting secure communications via secure sessions in communication systems are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting secure communications via secure sessions in communication systems may be configured to support mechanisms in a session layer protocol which enable communications of any communication protocol at any communication protocol layer to be transported over a session layer session (e.g., tunneling any data link protocol, any network layer protocol, any transport layer protocol, and/or any application layer protocol transparently over the session layer protocol), which enable multiple communications of one or more communication protocols of one or more communication protocol layers to be transported over a single session layer session (e.g., multiplexing two or more data streams of any data link protocol, any network layer protocol, any transport layer protocol, and/or any application layer protocol transparently over the session layer protocol), and so forth.

Apparatuses and methods for tapping serial communications and transforming the serial data into a format appropriate for routable networks are significant for purposes of security and troubleshooting, especially in critical infrastructure networks. Communication taps should be completely passive such that any failure would not interrupt the serial communications. Furthermore, automatic determination of unspecified serial protocol frames allow general implementation across various networks, or across devices within a single network, without the need to customize for each implementation.

A communication apparatus for selecting a plurality of messages each including destination information indicating a common transmission destination from among a plurality of messages each including destination information indicating a transmission destination, a first generation unit configured to generate a plurality of transmission packets corresponding to the messages selected, in a batch, and a second generation unit configured to generate a transmission packet corresponding to a message not selected among the plurality of messages.