Service providing system and method therefor

• US 20030065716A1
• Filed: 09/12/2002
• Published: 04/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Kyusojin, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,483,960 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

In a service providing system that provides optimum services for a request from each terminal, a terminal transmits its own device ID, corresponding to IP address, to a server. The server receives the device ID, searches for a specification of the terminal in a specification information table of the server, and then provides a service meeting the specification of the terminal.

Claims

1. A service providing system, comprising:

a plurality of terminals, each of the terminals having a unique device ID, wherein each of the terminals transmits the respective device ID when accessing the system; and

a server including a specification information table storing specifications of the terminals, each of the specifications corresponding to one of the device IDs, wherein the server receives the device IDs and provides the terminals with services of the corresponding specifications.

2. A service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the specification includes a still picture format decodable in each of the terminals.

3. A service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the specification includes a moving picture format decodable in each of the terminals.

4. A service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the specification includes an audio format decodable in each of the terminals.

5. A service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the specification includes a screen size decodable in each of the terminals.

6. A service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the specification includes a plurality of colors decodable in each of the terminals.

7. A service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the device ID is contained in an IP address.

8. A terminal configured to access a server via a network, comprising:

a device ID uniquely assigned to the terminal; and

a transmitter for transmitting the device ID to the server when requesting a service.

9. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the device ID is contained in an IP address.

10. A server for providing a plurality of terminals with a service via a network, comprising:

a specification information table for storing information on specifications of the terminals, each of the specifications corresponding to a unique device ID assigned to a respective one of the terminals;

a receiver for receiving the device ID transmitted from each of the terminals;

a searching unit for locating the specifications corresponding to each of the received device IDs of each of the terminals; and

a service providing unit for providing each of the terminals with the corresponding service in response to a request from each of the terminals.

11. A method for providing a plurality of terminals with a service, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a unique device ID from each of the terminals;

recognizing each of the terminals from the received device IDs; and

providing each of the terminals with the service that meets a predetermined specification that corresponds to the device ID of each of the terminals.

12. A method for providing a service according to claim 11, wherein the specification includes a still picture format decodable in each of the terminals.

13. A method for providing a service according to claim 11, wherein the specification includes a moving picture format decodable in each of the terminals.

14. A method for providing a service according to claim 11, wherein the specification includes an audio format decodable in each of the terminals.

15. A method for providing a service according to claim 11, wherein the specification includes a screen size decodable in each of the terminals.

16. A method for providing a service according to claim 11, wherein the specification includes a plurality of colors decodable in each of the terminals.

17. A method for providing a service according to claim 11, wherein the device ID is contained in an IP address.