A method and an apparatus to perform multi-connection traffic analysis and management are described. In one embodiment, the method includes analyzing data packets in the first data flow of a client application for a pattern of interest, where the client application communicates data using first and second data flows. In response to the method detecting a pattern of interest in the first data flow, the method identifies the second data flow and identifies a traffic policy for the second data flow. The method applies the identified traffic policy to the second data flow. Other embodiments have been claimed and described.

Multiple sensing network units are deployed overhead in a venue. Each unit supports a motion detecting system for detecting a level of motion in a zone of the venue, and an RFID locationing system for reading RFID tags in the venue, in response to the motion level detected by the motion detecting system. The performance of the RFID locationing system is adjusted and optimized in response to the detected motion level.

Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for controlling bandwidth across a network address translation (NAT) system. In a particular embodiment a method provides, identifying a first endpoint and a second endpoint to a communication session. The first endpoint is located within a domain of the NAT system and the second endpoint is located outside to the domain. The method further provides determining a bandwidth limitation for the communication session and exchanging communications between the first and second endpoints in accordance with the bandwidth limitation.

Described herein are apparatus, systems and methods for enhanced PLMN selection using priority class information. A method may comprise, at a user equipment (“UE”), identifying a plurality of networks, each network having an assigned priority class indicator, identifying a first network of the plurality of networks as having a first priority class indicator, identifying a second network of the plurality of networks as having the first priority class indicator, identifying the first priority class indicator as the highest priority class of the assigned priority class indicators, and selecting between the first network and the second network based a quality characteristic.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, device, and system for scheduling a data flow, which are used to improve the processing efficiency. A network side device marks a priority of a subsequent uplink and/or downlink data flow of a UE corresponding to a downlink data packet in the downlink data packet, and enables a downstream node to schedule an access network resource or air interface resource according to the priority. Therefore, a bearer does not need to be modified during the process of distinguishing different service flows and performing differentiation scheduling on different service flows, thereby reducing the workload and improving the processing efficiency.

Approaches for managing characteristics for inbound data communications between a first network site and a remote network site of a WAN are provided. The inbound communications are received by the first network site via a series of links of the WAN. Protocol overhead factors are determined based on overhead associated with network protocols applied to the data communications over the links. Link throughput limits are determined for the inbound data communications, wherein the throughput limits are determined based on the protocol overhead factors. The throughput limits are transmitted to the second network site for transmission of the inbound data communications from the second network site. The inbound data communications are received by a first device of the first network site via the first link, wherein the first link is between the first device and a second device serving as an exit point from a public portion of the WAN.

A first network node, for supporting transport of data in a wireless communication network. One or more first data transmission connections, for first data flows, are established between the first network node and one or more service providing entities. One or more second data transmission connections, for second data flows associated with the first data flows, are established between the first network node and one or more wireless terminals via a target node. The first network node obtains a buffer measure that is indicative of a buffering degree at the target node for a first group of the second data flows. The first network node controls, based on the obtained buffer measure, a transmission pace between the first network node and the target node for a second group of the second data flows.

The present invention provides a data packet routing method and device. When a Switch receives, form an SE, a traffic flow on which service processing is performed, the Switch can determine a forwarding rule of a corresponding service chain according to the traffic flow received from the SE, and route, according to the forwarding rule, a data packet received from the SE. Compared with a case in the prior art in which an SPC needs to deliver a forwarding rule corresponding to each traffic flow to a Switch, the embodiments of the present invention adopt the technical solutions in which the SPC only needs to deliver a forwarding rule corresponding to each service chain to the Switch, thereby reducing signaling interaction between the SPC and the Switch and saving a network overhead.

A technique for providing VPN-based quality enhancement to applications running on a user terminal is presented. An exemplary user terminal comprises at least one interface configured to connect the user terminal to a network, at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores a quality enhancement application and at least one further application for execution by the processor. The quality enhancement application, in one variant, is configured to cause the processor to trigger a VPN service to establish a VPN tunnel between a first VPN tunnel endpoint and a second VPN tunnel endpoint, wherein the first VPN tunnel endpoints resides on the user terminal. The quality enhancement application is further configured to cause the processor to determine a quality enhancement requirement of the further application and to signal the quality enhancement requirement via the VPN tunnel to the network.

Computer controlled method, network server (42, 43, 44, 46, 48) and system (40) for detecting data patterns in a data stream (36) received by a computer (30). The data stream (36) comprising a plurality of data symbols. The computer (30) executes a finite automata (10) comprising a plurality of states (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) including a start state (11) and at least one accepting state (15). State transitions (16) are triggered by a data symbol (17a) according to a state transition register (17) and the method comprises the steps of determining (21), by the computer (30), from a data symbol register (18) whether a data symbol of the data stream (36) is comprised in a group of data symbols not resulting in an accepting state (15), and triggering (22), by the computer (30), a transition (16) to the start state (11) for data symbols comprised in the group and a transition (23) to a state (12, 13, 14, 15) according to the state transition register (17) for detecting the data pattern otherwise.