A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.

An enterprise network may receive a WiFi packet associated with a 5G service (or other type of service) at an access point (AP) in the enterprise network. The enterprise network determines whether the WiFi packet satisfies a first-packet policy associated with the 5G service, where the first-packet policy controls access to a tunnel for traversing the enterprise network to reach the 5G service. If the packet satisfies the policy, the enterprise network queries a map server to identify a location of a 5G border in the enterprise network that is connected to the 5G service. The enterprise network can transmit the WiFi packet on the tunnel with priority to meet SLA using the location of the 5G border.

A method utilized in a wireless device used to wirelessly receive and play audio information includes: receiving a data packet stream transmitted from an audio source; monitoring a data amount of at least one buffer of a memory of the wireless device; and tuning an audio clock frequency dedicated for playing audio samples if the data amount of the at least one buffer deviates from a specific data amount level.

A method utilized in a wireless device used to wirelessly receive and play audio information includes: receiving a data packet stream transmitted from an audio source; monitoring a data amount of at least one buffer of a memory of the wireless device; and tuning an audio clock frequency dedicated for playing audio samples if the data amount of the at least one buffer deviates from a specific data amount level.

A passenger detector identifies biometric information of a passenger on board a vehicle from a video captured by a camera that captures the inside of the cabin of the vehicle and specifies the boarding position of the passenger. A determiner determines whether or not a mobile terminal associated with the biometric information identified by the passenger detector is in a state of being connectable by near field communication. In a case where there is a plurality of mobile terminals determined by the determiner to be in a state of being connectable by near field communication, a decider decides a mobile terminal to be connected by near field communication on the basis of boarding positions of a plurality of passengers specified by a plurality of pieces of biometric information associated with the plurality of mobile terminals. A communication controller connects the mobile terminal decided by the decider and the vehicle device by near field communication.

An electronic device is described. This electronic device may include a radio that supports multiple coexisting networks having different handshaking and a common PAN communication protocol. During operation, a single radio in the electronic device may provide different beacons for the coexisting networks. Then, the radio may receive a response associated with another electronic device, where the response may specify a first coexisting network in the coexisting networks. Next, the radio may establish a connection with the other electronic device, where establishing the connection involves performing handshaking associated with the first coexisting network. Note that the common PAN communication protocol may include: Bluetooth, BLE, Zigbee, or Z-Wave.

The present disclosure relates to a serving wireless communication node (AP.sub.1) in a wireless communication system (1), wherein the serving node (AP.sub.1) is adapted to determine that a served user terminal (2) is going to enter a zone (3) that switches between being reachable and unreachable for the serving node (AP.sub.1), and to predict data (x.sub.m+1 . . . x.sub.n) to be transmitted to the user terminal (2) for at least a part of the time the user terminal (2) is in the zone (3) and is unreachable for the serving node (AP.sub.1). When the zone (3) is reachable, the sewing node (AP.sub.1) is adapted to transfer predicted data (x.sub.m+1 . . . x.sub.n) to a cache node (AP.sub.C) positioned within the zone (3), enabling the cache node (AP.sub.C) to transfer the predicted data (x.sub.m+1 . . . x.sub.n) to the user terminal (3) when the user terminal (2) is in the zone (3) and is unreachable for the serving node (AP.sub.1).

A communication apparatus receives a signal that is transmitted from a partner apparatus using a first communication scheme, and establishes, on the basis that the signal received includes information indicating that parameter exchange processing is to be executed, a connection with the partner apparatus using a second communication scheme, wherein the second communication scheme has a higher communication rate and consumes more power than the first communication scheme. In addition, the communication apparatus exchanges, by using the second communication scheme, information to be used in communication for the parameter exchange processing with the partner apparatus, and executes the parameter exchange processing using the information by using the second communication unit scheme.

A communication apparatus receives a signal that is transmitted from a partner apparatus using a first communication scheme, and establishes, on the basis that the signal received includes information indicating that parameter exchange processing is to be executed, a connection with the partner apparatus using a second communication scheme, wherein the second communication scheme has a higher communication rate and consumes more power than the first communication scheme. In addition, the communication apparatus exchanges, by using the second communication scheme, information to be used in communication for the parameter exchange processing with the partner apparatus, and executes the parameter exchange processing using the information by using the second communication unit scheme.

A polling processing unit executes a polling process for detecting a device that performs NFC communication. An NFC communication processing unit executes a communication process of performing NFC communication with a mobile device detected by the polling process. Power consumption associated with execution of the communication process is larger than power consumption associated with execution of the polling process. When authentication of the mobile device by an authentication processing unit is completed, or when the execution of the communication process continues for a prescribed time period, the NFC communication processing unit executes a stop process of stopping the communication process until the execution of the communication process is permitted.