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1. A boundary scan cell for use in a circuit having a boundary scan shift register (BSSR) having boundary scan cells, each boundary scan cell being associated with a predetermined pin of said circuit and comprising:
a single-bit shift register element that outputs a bit value;
an update latch associated with said single-bit shift register element, said update latch latching said bit value to control the logic state of the pin associated with said boundary scan cell;
analog switches connecting the pin associated with said boundary scan cell to analog test buses in said circuit; and
logic circuitry, responsive to a cell mode signal, having a parametric test mode in which said single-bit shift register element controls said analog switches.
2. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 1, said logic circuitry being responsive to a combination of said cell mode signal and an analog mode signal.
3. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 2, further including a second update latch for maintaining the logic state of control signal of said analog switches.
4. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 2, said logic circuitry including a first gate for generating a parametric mode signal having the logic value of said combination of said cell mode signal and an analog mode signal; and a second gate responsive to said parametric mode signal and said bit value for generating an analog switch control signal.
5. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 4, further including:
a first selector responsive to said parametric mode signal for connecting one of a cell output and said analog switch control signal to an input of said shift register element; and
a second selector responsive to said parametric mode signal for connecting one of the output of said shift register element and the output of said update latch to the input of said update latch.
6. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 5, wherein during said parametric test mode, said logic circuitry suppresses update of said associated pin logic state and enables update of an analog switch-control latch.
7. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 5, wherein, during said parametric test mode, said logic circuitry enables said shift register element to control said analog switches while bits are shifting in said BSSR.
8. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 5, said circuit further including a comparator having inputs connected to an analog bus that is connected to pins under test and another bus, said comparator having an output connected to a test data output.
9. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 8, said circuit further including a selector for selecting between said serial test data output and said comparator output under control of said parametric mode signal.
10. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 1, wherein during said parametric test mode, said logic circuitry suppresses update of said associated pin logic state and enables update of an analog switch-control latch.
11. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 1, wherein during said parametric test mode, said logic circuitry enables said shift register element to control said analog switches while bits are shifting in said BSSR.
12. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 1, wherein, for a pair of scan cells associated with a differential pin pair, said logic circuitry in said pair of scan cells being interconnected so that one of said analog switches of each scan cell of said pair of scan cells is controlled by said parametric mode signal and a combination of the bit values of said scan cells, and the other analog switch of each scan cell of said pair of scan cells is controlled by a combination of said parametric mode signal and only the bit value of its associated scan cell.
13. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 12, each of said associated cells further including a second update latch for storing said bit value, said combination including the logic state of said second update latch.
14. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 1, said circuit further including a comparator whose compared inputs are connected to an analog bus that is connected to pins under test and another bus, said comparator having an output connected to a circuit test data output.
15. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 14, said circuit further including a selector for selecting between said circuit test data output and said comparator output under control of a parametric mode signal.
16. A boundary scan cell as defined in claim 1, said boundary scan cell being an IEEE 1149.1-compliant boundary scan cell associated with a digital pin.
17. An analog boundary module (ABM) containing boundary scan cells as defined in claim 1, said ABM being compliant with IEEE 1149.4.
18. An ABM as defined in claim 17, said logic circuitry of each of said boundary scan cells having an output connected to a clock input of a cell update latch and having logic gates that prevent updating of the state of said associated pin and enable updating of analog switch control signals during said parametric test mode.
19. An ABM as defined in claim 17, said logic circuitry of each of said boundary scan cells having an output connected to a clock input of an analog switch update latch and having logic gates that enable, during said parametric test mode, updating of said analog switch update latch during a test access port controller shift state.

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 connection method for establishing connection between a first station and a second station in a wireless network using different frame formats, the first station supporting both a first frame format and a second frame format, the second station supporting only the first frame format, the method comprising the steps of:
causing the first station to be a parent station for using two channels; and
transmitting, from the first station to the second station, data in the first frame format over one channel and transmitting data in the second frame format over the other channel so as to establish a connection with the second station.
2. A connection method for establishing connection between a first station and a second station in a wireless network using different frame formats, the first station supporting both a first frame format and a second frame format, the second station supporting only the first frame format, the method comprising the steps of:
causing the first station to be a parent station; and
transmitting, from the first station to the second station, data in the second frame format for a predetermined time period and thereafter transmitting data in the first frame format so as to establish a connection with the second station.
3. A connection method for establishing connection between a first station and a second station in a wireless network using different frame formats, the first station supporting both a first frame format and a second frame format, the second station supporting only the first frame format, the method comprising the steps of:
causing the first station to be a parent station;
transmitting, from the first station to the second station, data in the first frame format for a predetermined time period;
if the connection is unsuccessful, causing the first station to relinquish its role as the parent station so as to change to a listening mode;
causing the second station to be a parent station; and
transmitting, from the second station to the first station, data in the second frame format so as to establish a connection with the first station.
4. A connection method according to claim 1 wherein the frame formats are of different lengths and wherein the first frame format is a short frame format and the second frame format is a long frame format.
5. A connection method according to claim 2 wherein the different frame formats have different lengths and wherein the first frame format is a long frame format and the second frame format is a short frame format.
6. A connection method according to claim 3 wherein the different frame formats have different lengths and wherein the firs frame format is a short frame format and the second frame format is a long frame format.
7. A wireless network comprising a first station configured to support both a first frame format and a second frame format and a second station configured to support only one of said long or short frame formats the first station being further configured to be a parent station having two data channels such that the first station can transmit to the second station data in the first frame format over one channel and data in the second frame format over the other data channel so as to establish a connection with the second station.
8. A wireless network according to claim 7 wherein the first and second stations comprise PCs.
9. A wireless network according to claim 8 wherein the first frame format is a long frame format and the second frame format is a short frame format.

1. A communication terminal comprising:
an attribute data acquisition unit that acquires attribute data indicating an attribute of real data if at least a single piece of the real data is added or updated as one of content items on a data memory;
a notification controller that controls a notification unit to notify a user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit; and
a real data acquisition unit that acquires real data predetermined as an acquisition target by the communication terminal with the notification controller not notifying the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data if the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the predetermined real data.
2. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the real data acquisition unit acquires the real data in response to an acquisition instruction for the real data made by the user if the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit fails to match the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, or if the attribute of the real data is not predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal.
3. The communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein the notification controller controls the notification unit to notify the user of a content item indicated by the acquired real data with the real data acquisition unit having acquired the real data if the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit fails to match the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, or if the attribute of the real data is not predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, and
wherein the communication terminal further comprises a deletion unit that deletes the real data from the communication terminal after the notification controller has notified the user of the content item of the real data.
4. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein if the attribute data acquisition unit has acquired the attribute data of a plurality of pieces of the real data, the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, and the pieces of the real data are set in a priority order, the real data acquisition unit acquires the pieces of the real data in the priority order.
5. The communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein if the attribute data acquisition unit has acquired the attribute data of a plurality of pieces of the real data, the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, and the pieces of the real data are set in a priority order, the real data acquisition unit acquires the pieces of the real data in the priority order.
6. The communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein if the attribute data acquisition unit has acquired the attribute data of a plurality of pieces of the real data, the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, and the pieces of the real data are set in a priority order, the real data acquisition unit acquires the pieces of the real data in the priority order.
7. A communication system comprising:
the communication terminal according to claim 1; and
a data transmitter that transmits, to the communication terminal, real data as a content item.
8. A communication method comprising:
acquiring attribute data indicating an attribute of real data if at least a single piece of the real data is added or updated as one of content items on a data memory;
controlling a notification unit to notify a user of the attribute indicated by the acquired attribute data; and
acquiring real data predetermined as an acquisition target without notifying the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data if the attribute indicated by the acquired attribute data matches the attribute of the predetermined real data.
9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for communication, the process comprising:
acquiring attribute data indicating an attribute of real data if at least a single piece of the real data is added or updated as one of content items on a data memory;
controlling a notification unit to notify a user of the attribute indicated by the acquired attribute data; and
acquiring real data predetermined as an acquisition target without notifying the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data if the attribute indicated by the acquired attribute data matches the attribute of the predetermined real data.

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 method for controlling access to a computer system resource, the method comprising:
defining at least one environmental activation threshold metric, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric is a workload characteristic of the computer system resource;
monitoring access to the computer system resource and determining whether usage of the computer system resource meets the at least one environmental activation threshold metric, and if so, then for a current transaction requiring access to the computer system resource:
collecting at least one identifying attribute of the transaction; and
employing the at least one identifying attribute in determining whether the transaction is for at least one entity having a predefined usage limit, and if so, throttling access of the at least one entity to the computer system resource when the predefined usage limit for the at least one entity is met, otherwise allowing the current transaction to proceed unthrottled, wherein the at least one entity is less than all entities accessing the computer system resource.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the throttling comprises delaying processing of the transaction based upon a throttling directive.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the throttling directive comprises at least one of:
waiting a predetermined period of time before the computer system resource provides a response to the at least one entity; and
assigning a lower priority to the at least one entity in a computer resource scheduling algorithm.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one entity comprises a distinct connection to the computer system resource.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least one entity comprises at least one of a network address or subset of network addresses, a user, another computer system resource, a server, a communications entity, and a storage entity.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric comprises at least one of:
computer system resource requests per time period;
computer system resource consumption per time period;
concurrent computer system resource sessions;
percent of incoming requests to the computer system resource by the at least one entity; and
percent of computer system resource load.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining whether the at least one environmental activation threshold metric has been met, comprises collecting at least one of current usage information for the computer system resource and a current utilization per defined time interval for the computer system resource.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the throttling comprises delaying access by the at least one entity to the computer system resource for a predefined time interval.
9. A system for controlling access to a computer system resource, the system comprising:
means for defining at least one environmental activation threshold metric, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric is a workload characteristic of the computer system resource;
means for monitoring access to the computer system resource and means for determining whether usage of the computer system resource meets the at least one environmental activation threshold metric, and if so, then for a current transaction requiring access to the computer system resource:
means for collecting at least one identifying attribute of the transaction; and
means for employing the at least one identifying attribute in determining whether the transaction is for at least one entity having a predefined usage limit, and if so, for throttling access of the at least one entity to the computer system resource when the predefined usage limit for the at least one entity is met, otherwise for allowing the current transaction to proceed unthrottled, wherein the at least one entity is less than all entities accessing the computer system resource.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the means for throttling comprises means for delaying processing of the transaction based upon a throttling directive.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the means for throttling directive comprises at least one of
means for waiting a predetermined period of time before the computer system resource provides a response to the at least one entity; and
means for assigning a lower priority to the at least one entity in a computer resource scheduling algorithm.
12. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one entity comprises a distinct connection to the computer system resource.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one entity comprises at least one of a network address or subset of network addresses, a user, another computer system resource, a server, a communications entity, and a storage entity.
14. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric comprises at least one of:
computer system resource requests per time period;
computer system resource consumption per time period;
concurrent computer system resource sessions;
percent of incoming requests to the computer system resource by the at least one entity; and
percent of computer system resource load.
15. The system of claim 9, wherein said means for determining whether the at least one environmental activation threshold metric has been met, comprises means for collecting at least one of current usage information for the computer system resource and a current utilization per defined time interval for the computer system resource.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the means for throttling comprises means for delaying access by the at least one entity to the computer system resource for a predefined time interval.
17. At least one program storage device readable by a machine tangibly embodying at least one program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of controlling access to a computer system resource, the method comprising:
defining at least one environmental activation threshold metric, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric is a workload characteristic of the computer system resource;
monitoring access to the computer system resource and determining whether usage of the computer system resource meets the at least one environmental activation threshold metric, and if so, then for a current transaction requiring access to the computer system resource:
collecting at least one identifying attribute of the transaction; and
employing the at least one identifying attribute in determining whether the transaction is for at least one entity having a predefined usage limit, and if so, throttling access of the at least one entity to the computer system resource when the predefined usage limit for the at least one entity is met, otherwise allowing the current transaction to proceed unthrottled, wherein the at least one entity is less than all entities accessing the computer system resource.
18. The at least one program storage device of claim 17, wherein the throttling comprises delaying processing of the transaction based upon a throttling directive.
19. The at least one program storage device of claim 18, wherein the throttling directive comprises at least one of:
waiting a predetermined period of time before the computer system resource provides a response to the at least one entity; and
assigning a lower priority to the at least one entity in a computer resource scheduling algorithm.
20. The at least one program storage device of claim 17, wherein the at least one entity comprises a distinct connection to the computer system resource.
21. The at least one program storage device of claim 20, wherein the at least one entity comprises at least one of a network address or subset of network addresses, a user, another computer system resource, a sever, a communications entity, and a storage entity.
22. The at least one program storage device of claim 17, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric comprises at least one of:
computer system resource requests per time period;
computer system resource consumption per time period;
concurrent computer system resource sessions;
percent of incoming requests to the computer system resource by the at least one entity; and
percent of computer system resource load.
23. The at least one program storage device of claim 17, wherein said determining whether the at least one environmental activation threshold metric has been met, comprises collecting at least one of current usage information for the computer system resource and a current utilization per defined time interval for the computer system resource.
24. The at least one program storage device of claim 23, wherein the throttling comprises delaying access by the at least one entity to the computer system resource for a predefined time interval.