Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving a data packet sent by a server, and acquiring a type of the data packet; determining whether the type of the data packet is consistent with a type of a data packet processed by using a preset processing rule or a type of a protocol in a preset TCP/IP protocol stack to obtain a determining result; and if the type of the data packet is consistent with the type of the data packet processed by using the preset processing rule or the type of the protocol in the preset TCP/IP protocol stack, performing processing on the data packet according to the protocol in the preset TCP/IP protocol stack or the preset processing rule.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving non-Internet Protocol (IP) traffic from one or more non-IP traffic sources. The method also includes terminating the non-IP traffic and re-originating the non-IP traffic as first IP traffic in accordance with one or more software-defined networking in a wide area network (SD-WAN) protocols. The method further includes communicating the first IP traffic to an SD-WAN link in accordance with one or more SD-WAN policies.

An asynchronous switching system and method for processing data streams, the system and method utilizing one or more buffers for cleaning up an output of a dirty switch.

Example implementations are directed to the facilitation of UDP load balancing even in implementations that involve load balancers that support only TCP. In example implementations, the application can control the session lifetime through the accompanying TCP connection. Thus, example implementations can make use of any load balancer that supports only TCP.

An apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to acquire a device driver corresponding to a device, deploy the acquired device driver so as to be operable, generate an address allowing a function of the device to be called from one or more client apparatuses, register the address and a path to the device driver in association with each other, generate, based on first information in which a function to be provided by each device is described and the address, second information including the function of the device and the address, and register the second information.

The invention concerns a communication method in a home network comprising at least two devices connected to a communication bus, characterized in that, a first device including an internet application and a second device including means for connecting to the internet, said second device being able to manage at least one internet application protocol, said method comprises the steps of: sending a request from said first device to said second device for opening a connection between said first and second devices, wherein said request contains an internet application protocol identifier to identify the internet application protocol to be used over said connection; sending an internet protocol request under the format of said internet application protocol from said first device to said second device; forwarding said internet protocol request from said second device to an internet server; upon receipt; transferring a response from said internet server to said first device through said second device over said communication bus. The invention also concerns a network and a device for implementing the method above.

An adapter card for managing connections between clients and a network server off-loads the connection management burden from the server. The adapter card includes a memory with an embedded proxy application and a communication protocol stack, a processing unit for executing the application code, a network controller for interfacing with an internetwork, and a bus protocol bridge for interfacing with the internal bus of the network server. The proxy application receives client requests on behalf of the server over relatively slow and unreliable network connections, and submits the requests to the server over fast, reliable bus connections.

A processor is configured to determine non-core functions to be performed by an unmanaged device disposed on a packet based computer network. A control message generator is configured to (i) generate a point-to-point control message conforming to a point-to-point control protocol for controlling the unmanaged device over a point-to-point serial bus connection to perform the determined non-core functions, and (ii) encapsulate the point-to-point control message in a transport packet for transport over the packet based computer network. A packet transmitter is configured to transmit the transport packet including the encapsulated point-to-point control message via a port coupled to the packet based computer network, the packet based computer network configured to route the transport packet including the encapsulated point-to-point control message based on a header included in the transport packet so that the point-to-point control message is received at the unmanaged device via the packet based computer network.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving non-Internet Protocol (IP) traffic from one or more non-IP traffic sources. The method also includes terminating the non-IP traffic and re-originating the non-IP traffic as first IP traffic in accordance with one or more software-defined networking in a wide area network (SD-WAN) protocols. The method further includes communicating the first IP traffic to an SD-WAN link in accordance with one or more SD-WAN policies.

This disclosure describes techniques for performing communications between devices using various aspects of Ethernet standards. As further described herein, a protocol is disclosed that may be used for communications between devices, where the communications take place over a physical connection complying with Ethernet standards. Such a protocol may enable reliable and in-order delivery of frames between devices, while following Ethernet physical layer rules, Ethernet symbol encoding, Ethernet lane alignment, and/or Ethernet frame formats.