Internet appliance

About: Internet appliance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1974 publications have been published within this topic receiving 43571 citations.

The Design of a Secure Internet Gateway.

Abstract: The Internet supports a vast and growing community of computers users around the world. Unfortunately, this network can provide anonymous access to this community by the unscrupulous, careless, or dangerous. On any given Internet there is a certain percentage of poorly-maintained systems. AT&T has a large internal Internet that we wish to protect from outside attacks, while providing useful services between the two. This paper describes our Internet gateway. It is an application-level gateway that passes mail and many of the common Internet services between our internal machines and the Internet. This is accomplished without IP connectivity using a pair of machines: a trusted internal machine and an untrusted external gateway. These are connected by a private link. The internal machine provides a few carefully-guarded services to the external gateway. This configuration helps protect the internal internet even if the external machine is fully compromised.

Providing Internet Access: What we learn from the INDEX Trial∗

Abstract: The Internet Demand Experiment or INDEX is a market and technology trial. Its objective is to determine how much users value different qualities of service for Interent access. Findings from the trial imply that today’s system of flat-rate pricing by ISPs is very inefficient. Flat-rate pricing wastes resources, requires light users to subsidize heavy users, and hinders deployment of broadband access. INDEX is a prototype of an alternative ISP model that offers differentiated-quality service on demand, with prices that reflect resource cost. In this alternative ISP consumers pay less, suppliers increase profits, and the deployment of broadband access is facilitated. The INDEX Project is supported by the National Science Foundation, Cisco Systems, SBC Communications and the California State MICRO Grant program. ∗We thank Jorn Altmann, Karyen Chu and Hal Varian for use of their unpublished results. A version of this paper was presented as the keynote talk at Infocom ’99.

Internet phone set

Abstract: An Internet phone provides standard voice and Internet audio functions using the familiar Plain Old Telephone System platform Internet audio connections are initiated using an access button on the base of the telephone A phone keypad and alphanumeric keyboard provide both DTMF dialing and Internet message handling functions A speaker is provides or the hand set can be used to send and receive Internet compressed audio messages over the Public Switched Telephone System via the user's Internet access provider The user selects a recipient from a stored address list or creates a new recipient using the alphanumeric keyboard Once the call is established, a user at either end speaks directly into the phone receiver wherein his voice signal is digitized into a voice file that is stored and transferred to the user at the other end The Internet phone an integrated display and display electronics which decode incoming messages A ROM based program inside the phone decodes the address portion of an incoming Internet message and displays it on the screen identifying the identity of the the caller