Terminal device in document information communication system

• US 20040236831A1
• Filed: 06/04/2004
• Published: 11/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1995
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hidetaka Ohto, Junichi Hirai, Kazuo Okamura, Masaki Mukai, Toshihiro Hishida
• Original Assignee: Hidetaka Ohto, Junichi Hirai, Kazuo Okamura, Masaki Mukai, Toshihiro Hishida
• Inventors: Hishida, Toshihiro, Ohto, Hidetaka, Mukai, Masaki, Okamura, Kazuo, Hirai, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,203,739 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities

Abstract

A terminal device to be used in a system where sets of transmission document information are transferred via a network between terminal devices which are grouped together in a plurality of different groups, the terminal device comprising a document information storage unit which stores document information which is made up of a plurality of document elements which are to be transmitted, a terminal device arrangement information storage unit for storing terminal device arrangement information made up of each group name, a type of each terminal device provided at each group and an address of each terminal device, a terminal device capability information control unit for controlling terminal device capability information which shows what kinds of document information can be outputted by each type of terminal device, a transmission document information creation unit for selecting terminal devices based on the group name of a group to be transmitted to and the terminal device arrangement information and for creating sets of the transmission document information from the document information to be transmitted in accordance with the terminal device capability information and a transmission unit for transmitting the created sets of transmission document information to the selected terminal devices.

Claims

1-32. -32. (Cancelled)

33. A terminal device which transmits capability information of said terminal device in response to an inquiry from other device.

40. A terminal device comprising:

a capability information storage unit operable to store capability information of said terminal device;

an inquiry reception unit operable to receive an inquiry concerning said capability information; and

a transmission unit operable to read and transmit said capability information stored in said capability information storage unit.

41. A request device operable to request other device to send capability information of said other device, and receive said capability information.

42. A method for notifying capability information of a device to other device, comprising steps of:

receiving an inquiry concerning said capability information;

reading said capability information; and

transmitting said capability information.