Transmission management system, transmission system, and recording medium

• US 10,270,837 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2016
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Maeda, Kaoru, Asai, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dalencourt, Yves
• Application Number:
  US15/290,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20170034230A1
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4505 using standardised directories; using standardised directory access protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/59 using proxies for addressing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/563 User guidance or feature selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/565 relating to time schedule aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

A transmission management system includes a destination name data managing unit which manages a plurality of destination name data items which indicate a plurality of names of a destination in communications between transmission terminals, a destination name data reading unit which reads a destination name data item from the plurality of destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit, and a destination name data transmitting unit which transmits the destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to a transmission terminal capable of communicating with the destination.

Claims

1. A management system comprising:

a memory; and

processing circuitry configured to;

record name data items for use in communications between terminals using identification data items; and

store in the memory, with respect to a first identification data item, a first name data item associated with a second identification data item to indicate that a terminal using the first identification data item is a destination terminal for a terminal using the second identification data item, and a second name data item different from the first name data item and associated with a third identification data item to indicate that a terminal using the first identification data item is a destination terminal for a terminal using the third identification data item.

2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

transmit, in the communications between the terminals, the first name data item to a terminal that uses the second identification data item; and

transmit, in the communications between the terminals, the second name data item to a terminal that uses the third identification data item.

3. A transmission system comprising:

the management system according to claim 1; and

the terminals using the identification data items.

4. A transmission system comprising:

the management system according to claim 2; and

the terminals using the identification data items.

5. A management method for performing a process by a management system including a memory and processing circuitry, the method performed by the processing circuitry comprising:

recording name data items for use in communications between terminals using identification data items; and

storing in the memory, with respect to a first identification data item, a first name data item associated with a second identification data item to indicate that a terminal using the first identification data item is a destination terminal for a terminal using the second identification data item, and a second name data item different from the first name data item and associated with a third identification data item to indicate that a terminal using the first identification data item is a destination terminal for a terminal using the third identification data item.

6. The management method according to claim 5, further comprising:

transmitting, in the communications between the terminals, the first name data item to a terminal that uses the second identification data and

transmitting, in the communications between the terminals, the second name data item to a terminal that uses the third identification data item.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program which, when executed by a management system including a memory and processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to execute a process comprising:

recording name data items for use in communications between terminals using identification data items; and

storing in the memory, with respect to a first identification data item, a first name data item associated with a second identification data item to indicate that a terminal using the first identification data item is a destination terminal for a terminal using the second identification data item, and a second name data item different from the first name data item and associated with a third identification data item to indicate that a terminal using the first identification data item is a destination terminal for a terminal using the third identification data item.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 7, wherein the process further comprises:

transmitting, in the communications between the terminals, the first name data item to a terminal that uses the second identification data and

transmitting, in the communications between the terminals, the second name data item to a terminal that uses the third identification data item.