Information processing device linkage apparatus, information processing device linkage system, and information processing device linkage program

• US 20060215696A1
• Filed: 07/06/2005
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Fukuta, Shigeki, Mohri, Takao
• Application Number:
  US11/174,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20060215696A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/469
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

The present invention is made to provide an information processing device linkage system capable of assigning different roles to respective terminals in accordance with their characteristics and customizing screen and input in accordance with the characteristics. The information processing device linkage system comprises a plurality of terminals 20, 30 and a shared environmental server 10 that utilizes the plurality terminals simultaneously to perform role sharing. The server 10 comprises: a role table storage section 10c that stores, as a role table, information including role name, role selection condition, and role execution content that correspond to a role set; a role assigning section 10a that assigns roles to the terminals in accordance with their characteristics; and an output selection section 10e that performs output restriction for respective terminals in accordance with their roles. When the terminal issues a role sharing request, the role assigning section 10a lists the terminal for each set in the role table in accordance with respective roles in decreasing order of adequacy to create a recommended terminal list and transmits the recommended terminal list to the user terminal, as well as notifies the output selection section 10e of the content to be executed in accordance with the user'"'"'s selection and further notifies the role sharing request sections 20b and 30b of the selected terminals of the contents to be executed.

Claims

1. An information processing device linkage apparatus that utilizes a plurality of different terminals simultaneously to perform role sharing, comprising:

a role information acquisition section that acquires information related to a role that the terminal can take on; and

a role assigning section that assigns a combination of terminals to a predetermined role based on the information related to the role acquired by the role information acquisition section.

2. The information processing device linkage apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

an output selection section that performs output restriction for respective terminals, to which the predetermined roles have been assigned by the role assigning section, in accordance with the assigned roles.

3. The information processing device linkage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the role assigning section presents, as candidates, a combination of terminals to a user and assigns a role to a combination of terminals selected by the user.

4. The information processing device linkage apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the role assigning section provides the priority for each candidate of the terminal combination to be presented to the user.

5. The information processing device linkage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the role information acquisition section includes a role table storage section that sores the information related to a role as a role table, and

the role assigning section lists the terminals that suit the respective roles based on a role sharing request from an arbitrary user terminal to create a recommended terminal list and allows the user to select the terminals that take on the respective roles from the recommended terminal list.

6. The information processing device linkage apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the role information acquisition section includes the role table storage section that stores, as the role table, information including at least one of role name, role selection condition, and role execution content that correspond to a role set, and

the role assigning section lists the terminal for each set in the role table stored in the role table storage section based on a role sharing request from an arbitrary user terminal in accordance with respective roles in decreasing order of adequacy to create the recommended terminal list and transmits the recommended terminal list to the user terminal, as well as notifies the output selection section of the content to be executed in accordance with the user'"'"'s selection.

7. The information processing device linkage apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising

a terminal characteristics table storage section that stores, as a terminal characteristics table, information including at least one of screen characteristics, input device, portability, credibility, and compatibility to ancillary application that correspond to a terminal ID, wherein

the role assigning section selects one set from the role table stored in the role table storage section, selects one role from the selected set in the role table, selects one terminal from the terminal characteristics table stored in the terminal characteristics table storage section, determines whether the selected terminal meets the role selection condition, calculates the priority of the terminal based on the weighting set in the selection condition of the selected role when the selected terminal meets the role selection condition, sorts the terminal list in the descending order of adequacy so as to add the terminals to the recommended terminal list, and transmits the recommended terminal list to the terminal that has issued the role sharing request.

8. An information processing device linkage system comprising a plurality of terminals and a shared environmental server that utilizes the plurality of terminals simultaneously to perform role sharing, wherein

the shared environmental server comprises:

a role information acquisition section that acquires information related to a role that the terminal can take on;

a role assigning section that assigns a combination of terminals to a predetermined role based on the information related to the role acquired by the role information acquisition section; and

an output selection section that performs output restriction for respective terminals, to which the predetermined roles have been assigned by the role assigning section, in accordance with the assigned roles, and

each of the plurality of terminals comprises;

a role sharing request section that plays the assigned role based on an instruction from the role assigning section; and

a display section that displays a restricted output from the output selection section.

9. An information processing device linkage program allowing a computer to execute an information processing device linkage method that utilizes a plurality of different terminals simultaneously to perform role sharing, comprising:

a role information acquisition step that acquires information related to a role that the terminal can take on; and

a role assigning step that assigns a combination of terminals to a predetermined role based on the information related to the role acquired in the role information acquisition step.

10. The information processing device linkage program according to claim 9, further comprising.

an output selection step that performs output restriction for respective terminals, to which the predetermined roles have been assigned in the role assigning step, in accordance with the assigned roles.

11. The information processing device linkage program according to claim 9, wherein

the role assigning step presents, as candidates, a combination of terminals to a user and assigns a role to a combination of terminals selected by the user.

12. The information processing device linkage program according to claim 11, wherein

the role assigning step provides the priority for each candidate of the terminal combination to be presented to the user.

13. The information processing device linkage program according to claim 9, wherein

the role information acquisition step acquires role information from a role table storage section that sores the information related to a role as a role table, and

the role assigning step lists the terminals that suits the respective roles based on a role sharing request from an arbitrary user terminal to create a recommended terminal list and allows the user to select the terminals that take on the respective roles from the recommended terminal list.

14. The information processing device linkage program according to claim 13, wherein

the role information acquisition step acquires the role information from the role table storage section that stores, as the role table, information including at least one of role name, role selection condition, and role execution content that correspond to a role set, and

the role assigning step lists the terminal for each set in the role table stored in the role table storage section based on a role sharing request from an arbitrary user terminal in accordance with respective roles in decreasing order of adequacy to create the recommended terminal list and transmits the recommended terminal list to the user terminal, as well as notifies the output selection section of the content to be executed in accordance with the user'"'"'s selection.

15. The information processing device linkage program according to claim 13, further comprising

a terminal characteristics selection acquisition step that selectively acquires terminal characteristics from a terminal characteristics table storage section that stores, as a terminal characteristics table, information including at least one of screen characteristics, input device, portability, credibility, and compatibility to ancillary application that correspond to a terminal ID, wherein

the role assigning step selects one set from the role table stored in the role table storage section by the role information acquisition step, selects one role from the selected set in the role table, selects one terminal from the terminal characteristics table stored in the terminal characteristics table storage section by the terminal characteristics selection acquisition step, determines whether the selected terminal meets the role selection condition, calculates the priority of the terminal based on the weighting set in the selection condition of the selected role when the selected terminal meets the role selection condition, sorts the terminal list in the descending order of adequacy so as to add the terminals to the recommended terminal list, and transmits the recommended terminal list to the terminal that has issued the role sharing request.