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1. A method of supporting automatic roaming of a terminal in an Authentication Proxy (AP) server of a Downloadable Conditional Access System (DCAS), the method comprising:
performing device authentication of the terminal when terminal authentication is requested by the terminal;
verifying whether roaming authentication of the terminal having requested the terminal authentication is required;
requesting subscriber authentication for a Provisioning Server in a home domain and receiving the subscriber authentication when the terminal exists in the home domain, when the roaming authentication of the terminal is verified as being required;
transmitting a result of the device authentication and the subscriber authentication as a response to the terminal; and
instructing an Integrated Personalization Server (IPS) to download a Conditional Access (CA) application to the terminal.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the verifying verifies whether a user profile is attached when requesting the terminal authentication, and determines that the roaming authentication is required when the user profile is attached.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user profile includes at least one of subscriber information, a home domain name, and a Multiple System Operator (MSO) name.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein the user profile includes token accounts for contents purchasing.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the terminal does not exist in the home domain, the requesting and receiving requests the subscriber authentication for the home domain of the terminal, and receives a subscriber authentication result.
6. An automatic roaming method of a terminal in a digital cable broadcasting network, the method comprising:
verifying whether device authentication of the terminal is required when receiving a Security Announce message;
inspecting user profile information;
requesting terminal authentication for an AP server by attaching a user profile;
transmitting a terminal authentication request message including the user profile information to the AP server;
receiving a terminal authentication result from the AP server; and
downloading a CA application from an IPS.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the user profile includes at least one of subscriber information, a home domain name, and an MSO name.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein the user profile includes token accounts for contents purchasing.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A structural assembly for decks, walkways, patios, and docks comprising:
a frame assembly including elongate main support members, elongate cross support members, and elongate insert members, each of said elongate main support members including an elongate base portion having a planar bottom side and a top side and also having a plurality of grooves being spacedly disposed in and extending a length of said planar bottom side; and also including a brace portion integrally extending upwardly from said top side of said elongate base portion and having a channel being disposed in a top side and extending a length thereof and having a laterally-flared bottom portion, said elongate base portion having a width greater than that of said brace portion, said brace portion having a thickness greater than that of said elongate base portion, said base portion also having grooves being disposed in and extending a length of said top side thereof to either side of said brace portion, each of said elongate main support members further having mounting holes being disposed through said base portion; and
slabs of solid material being supported by said frame assembly.
2. The structural assembly for decks, walkways, patios, and docks as described in claim 1, wherein each of said elongate cross support members includes an elongate base portion having a planar bottom side and a top side and also having lateral-extending slots being disposed in end portions of said planar bottom side and removably interlocking with said grooves in said top side of a respective said elongate main support member; and also includes a brace portion integrally extending upwardly from said top side of said elongate base portion and having a channel being disposed in a top side and extending a length thereof and having a laterally-flared bottom portion.
3. The structural assembly for decks, walkways, patios, and docks as described in claim 2, wherein each of said elongate insert members includes a base portion having a laterally-flared bottom portion and being securely and removably disposed in said channel of a respective one of said elongate main support member or said elongate cross support member; and also includes a cross portion.
4. The structural assembly for decks, walkways, patios, and docks as described in claim 3, wherein said slabs of solid material includes slabs of stone being securely retained in said frame assembly between said elongate insert members.

1. A method of configuring a policy used by a network device by specifying an action to be taken in the event an element of the policy is undefined, the method comprising:
(a) providing a configuration interface for configuring a policy of a network device;
(b) identifying, by the configuration interface, a policy comprising a first action to be taken based on an evaluation of an expression;
(c) receiving, via the configuration interface, information identifying a second action for the policy, the second action to be taken if an element of the policy is undefined.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) comprises providing a command-line configuration interface for configuring a policy of a network device.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) comprises providing a configuration interface comprising one or more of a drag-and-drop interface, a list-selection interface, or a syntax-highlighting interface.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) comprises executing the configuration interface on a device in communication with the network device.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) comprises executing the configuration interface on a device in communication with the network device.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) comprises configuring, by the user via the configuration interface, an object-oriented expression for the policy.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) comprises receiving, from the user via the configuration interface, an expression for the policy, the expression having an object class and a member of the object class.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second action comprises no action.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the second action comprises blocking transmission of a portion of a packet stream from the network device.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first action or the second action specifies a function performing one of: load balancing, content switching, application security, application delivery, network acceleration, or application acceleration.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first action and the second action specifies rewriting a portion of the payload of the packet stream.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first action and the second action specifies rewriting a URL contained in an HTTP response.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first action and the second action comprises an object-oriented expression.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises receiving, via the configuration interface, information identifying a second action for the policy, the second action to be taken if an expression of the policy is undefined.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises receiving, via the configuration interface, information identifying a second action for the policy, the second action to be taken if a rule of the policy is undefined.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises receiving, via the configuration interface, information identifying a second action for the policy, the second action to be taken if the first action of the policy is undefined.
17. In an appliance, a method of applying a policy specifying an action to be taken in the event an element of the policy is undefined, the method comprising:
(a) identifying, by an appliance, a policy to evaluate with respect to a payload of a received packet stream, the policy specifying (i) an expression, (ii) a first action to be taken based on an evaluation of the expression and (iii) a second action to be taken if an element of the policy is undefined;
(b) determining, by the appliance, an element of the policy is undefined with respect to the payload; and
(c) taking, by the appliance in response to the determination, the second action.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein step (b) comprises evaluating an object-oriented expression.
19. The method of claim 17, wherein step (b) comprises evaluating an expression having an object class and a member of the object class.
20. The method of claim 17, wherein step (b) comprises determining, by the appliance, the expression is undefined with respect to the packet stream.
21. The method of claim 17, wherein step (b) comprises determining, by the appliance, a rule of the policy is undefined.
22. The method of claim 17, wherein step (b) comprises determining, by the appliance, the first action of the policy is undefined.
23. The method of claim 17, wherein step (c) comprises taking no action.
24. The method of claim 17, wherein step (c) comprises blocking transmission of the packet stream from the appliance.
25. The method of claim 17, wherein step (c) comprises performing one of: load balancing, content switching, application security, application delivery, network acceleration, or application acceleration.
26. The method of claim 17, wherein step (c) comprises rewriting a portion of the payload of the packet stream.
27. The method of claim 17, wherein step (c) comprises rewriting a URL contained in an HTTP response.
28. An appliance which enables users to specify an action to be taken in the event an expression contained in a policy cannot be evaluated by the appliance, the appliance comprising:
a packet processor which receives a packet stream; and
a policy engine which identifies a policy to evaluate with respect to the payload of the received packet stream, the policy specifying (i) an expression, (ii) a first action to be taken based on an evaluation of the expression and (iii) a second action to be taken if the expression is not successfully evaluated; determines the expression cannot be successfully evaluated with respect to the packet stream; and takes the second action.
29. The system of claim 28, wherein the policy engine evaluates an object-oriented expression.
30. The system of claim 28, wherein the policy engine evaluates an expression having an object class and a member of the object class.
31. The system of claim 28, wherein the second action comprises no action.
32. The system of claim 28, wherein the second action comprises blocking a portion of a packet stream.
33. The system of claim 28, wherein at least one of the first action and second action specifies a function directed to at least one of: load balancing, content switching, application security, application delivery, network acceleration, and application acceleration.
34. The system of claim 28, wherein at least one of the first action or the second action specifies rewriting a portion of the payload of the packet stream.
35. The system of claim 28, wherein at least one of the first action or the second action specifies rewriting a URL contained in an HTTP response.
36. The system of claim 28, wherein the policy engine determines the expression is undefined with respect to the packet stream.
37. The system of claim 28, wherein the policy engine determines a rule of the policy is undefined with respect to the packet stream.
38. The system of claim 28, wherein the policy engine determines the first action is undefined with respect to the packet stream.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. Method for providing fibrous raw material with a bonding agent, the fibrous material being intended for the manufacture of fiberboards, mats and the like, the method comprising:
providing a continuous flow of the fibrous material;
moistening said flow of fibrous material wit a bonding agent;
compacting the flow of fibrous material in order to provide movement of the fibers against each other so that equalizing of the bonding agent on and between the fibers is achieved; and
conveying said flow of fibrous material to a shaping station in order to manufacture the fibreboards, mats and the like.
2. Method pursuant to claim 1, further comprising providing a plurality of flows of the fibrous material to be provided with said bonding agent.
3. Method pursuant to claim 2, further comprising moistening separately each of said plurality of flow of the fibrous material with said bonding agent.
4. Method pursuant to claim 2, further comprising forming a single flow of fibrous material provided with said bonding agent from said plurality of flows of fibrous material to be provided with said bonding agent.
5. Method pursuant to claim 2, further comprising forming a single flow of fibrous material provided with said bonding agent during the compacting the flow of fibrous material.