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Message processor, apparatus controlling device, home appliance, program for message processor, microcomputer system, program for microcomputer system, and program product

  • US 20040254997A1
  • Filed: 05/07/2004
  • Published: 12/16/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A message processor for implementing a process by communicating a message with an external device, the message processor comprising:

  • message generating means including at least one of message receiving means to receive the message from the external device, and message creating means to create the message;

    message storing means to store the message received or created by the message generating means;

    message processing means to read out the message stored in the message storing means and to implement a process based on the message;

    identification code attaching means to record, in the message storing means, the message processed by the message processing means with an identification code indicating that the message has been processed being attached thereto;

    discrimination database storing means to store a database describing an effective term with respect to each of contents of the message; and

    message discriminating means to read out the message from the message storing means in response to a restart signal received in the message processor after the operation of the message processor is suspended, and to cause the message processing means to implement the process with respect to the message to which the identification code has not been attached and whose effective term has not lapsed, among the readout message, by referring to the database.

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