DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE THAT USES INTERNET

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
ROUTEPLOTTER	Visualware, Inc.	937 Sierra Drive Turlock CA 95380	Downloadable software that uses Internet protocol to discover all the nodes between two IP addresses on the Internet or Intranet path; The software measures and reports latency and packet loss for each node and a rules engine provides the means to alert when changes occur;ROUTE PLOTTER;
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Technical Examples

There is disclosed an apparatus for controlling a physical layer interface of a network interface card. The apparatus comprises: 1) a read only memory (ROM) for storing an embedded control program; 2) a random access memory for storing a downloadable software control program; and 3) a microcontroller for controlling the physical layer interface, wherein the microcontroller in a first operating mode executes the embedded control program to thereby control the physical layer interface, and wherein the microcontroller in a second operating mode downloads the downloadable software control program from an external processing system and executes the software control program in place of the embedded control program to thereby control the physical layer interface.