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The part of a computer used for communicating between the user and the system. A cathode ray tube (CRT) terminal with mouse and keyboard is the most common type.
Industry:Technology
Consent management is a system, process or set of policies for allowing consumers and patients to determine what health information they are willing to permit their various care providers to access. It enables patients and consumers to affirm their participation in e-health initiatives (patient portal, personal health record or health information exchange) and to establish privacy preferences to determine who will have access to their protected health information (PHI), for what purpose and under what circumstances. Consent management supports the dynamic creation, management and enforcement of consumer, organizational and jurisdictional privacy directives.
Industry:Technology
A service in which a connection (real or virtual) is set up and maintained for the duration of the communication. See circuit switching.
Industry:Technology
In a connectionless service, no fixed path is set up between sender and recipient. Every unit of data that is exchanged is self-contained in that it contains all the necessary control and address information to ensure correct delivery, e.g., packet switching.
Industry:Technology
The interconnection model in which communication takes place without first establishing a connection.
Industry:Technology
Extends local X.25 switching to Ethernet, token ring or Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) networks.
Industry:Technology
In asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks, connection admission control (CAC) is a function that checks whether network resources are available to support the quality of service and traffic parameters of an incoming connection. Also known as “call admission control.”
Industry:Technology
A unique, active service access point to a network. This includes machine-to-machine network access as well as human access. In mobile networks, this may be taken to refer to an active subscriber identity module (SIM). A single subscriber may operate several different cellular connections and multiple connections may be associated with one customer or one mobile device.
Industry:Technology
Portable navigation devices (PNDs) are handheld products that receive GPS signals to determine location. Connected PNDs embed a WAN digital cellular or Wi-Fi connection to connect to services designed to enhance the navigation experience, including traffic information, local search and other location-based services. PNDs with a WAN digital cellular connection can also use assisted GPS (A-GPS), which enables a faster time to a location fix. PNDs are used in cars to provide turn-by-turn directions and location-based services. PNDs typically have 3.5- to 5.2-inch screens and include maps of a given region stored on internal NAND flash memory.
Industry:Technology
Connected portable media players (PMPs) embed a wireless WAN digital cellular or Wi-Fi connection to connect to services designed to enhance the media playback experience, including direct-to-device content downloads, music ID capabilities, music discovery features, social networking features, and streaming Internet radio functions. In addition, more of these products are being based on mobile operating systems, including Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, which allows them to run applications and browse the Web. Apple is the major vendor of connected PMPs with its iPod touch model, but other vendors, including Microsoft, Creative, iriver, SanDisk and Archos, also sell connected PMPs. PMPs are distinguished from media tablets by having a screen size smaller than 5 inches, and from a smartphone or mobile phone by the lack of a WAN cellular connection capable of making cellular-based voice calls.
Industry:Technology
