Electronic equipment and program

• US 20040117492A1
• Filed: 11/20/2003
• Published: 06/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Tomoyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/716,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20040117492A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/387 for adaptation of different data processing systems to different peripheral devices, e.g. protocol converters for incompatible systems, open system

Abstract

The present invention relates to electronic equipment connected to a communication line for accessing an access point via the communication line to perform an information communication. An object of the present invention is to provide electronic equipment capable of suitably setting up the access point without needs of expensive equipment. According to the electronic equipment of the present invention, there are prepared a schedule file, which records an action schedule, and an access point file which records an association between an access point and information as to a place, and the present seat is detected from the schedule file, so that the access point according to the seat is set up.

Claims

1. Electronic equipment connected to a communication line for accessing an access point via the communication line to perform an information communication, the electronic equipment comprising:

a schedule management section that manages a schedule including information as to date and time and places;

an access point management section that manages an association between information as to places and access points; and

a communication connecting section that obtains information as to a place at the present time from the schedule and obtains an access point according to the information as to a place at the present time from the association to connect with the access point.

2. Electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein the access point management section manages the association between information as to places including index instead of a place name and access points, and

the communication connecting section has a mode in which upon receipt of an input according to an operation, of the information as to places including index, the access point according to the information as to places is detected from the association to connect with the access point.

3. Electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein the schedule file management section and/or the access point management section manage the schedule and/or the association in such a manner that the schedule and/or the association are recorded on a recording medium separated from the electronic equipment, the recording medium being accessed in the electronic equipment.

4. An access point set up program to be executed in electronic equipment connected to a communication line for accessing an access point via the communication line to perform an information communication, the electronic equipment comprising:

a schedule management section that manages a schedule including information as to date and time and places; and

an access point management section that manages an association between information as to places and access points, the access point set up program causing the electronic equipment to operate as;

a time obtaining section that obtains a present time;

a place obtaining section that obtains from the schedule information as to a place at the present time obtained in the time obtaining section;

an access point obtaining section that obtains from the association an access point according to the information as to a place obtained in the place obtaining section; and

an access point set up section that sets up the access point obtained in the access point obtaining section onto the electronic equipment.

5. An access point set up program according to claim 4, wherein the access point management section manages the association between information as to places including index instead of a geographical address and access points, and

the access point obtaining section has an automatic mode of obtaining from the association an access point according to the information as to a place obtained in the place obtaining section, and in addition a manual mode of obtaining the information as to a place entered in accordance with to an operation and of obtaining from the association an access point according to the entered information as to a place.