COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20070053347A1
• Filed: 09/07/2006
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: SASAKI, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US11/470,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20070053347A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/133 Protocols for remote procedure calls [RPC]

Abstract

A communication device selects one of a remote or local transmitters according to the destination of a message, transmits the message from the selected transmitter, receives the message at a receiver, and transmits the received message to the destination of the message.

Claims

1. A communication method comprising the steps of:

selecting one of remote and local transmitters;

transmitting a message from the transmitter selected in said selecting step;

receiving the message at a receiver; and

transmitting the message to the destination of the message received in said receiving step.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said transmitting step, the message is transmitted to an adapter for invoking function, the adapter being the destination.

3. A communication apparatus comprising:

selection means for selecting one of remote and local transmitters according to the destination of a message;

first transmission means for transmitting the message from the transmitter selected by said selection means;

reception means for receiving the message at a receiver; and

second transmission means for transmitting the message to the destination of the message received by said reception means.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said second transmission means transmits the message to an adapter for invoking function, the adapter being the destination.

5. A communication system comprising:

a transmission interface configured to transmit a message;

local transmission means for transmitting the message transmitted from said transmission interface to a local destination;

remote transmission means for transmitting the message transmitted from said transmission interface to a destination on a network;

local reception means for receiving the message transmitted to said local destination;

remote reception means for receiving the message from the network; and

an adapter configured to receive the message received by said local or remote reception means.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein said local and remote reception means comprise transmission means for transmitting the message to the adapter invoking function, the adapter being the destination.

7. A communication method comprising:

a first transmission step of transmitting a message transmitted from a transmission interface to a local destination;

a second transmission step of transmitting the message transmitted from the transmission interface to a destination on a network;

a local reception step of receiving the message transmitted to the local destination;

a remote reception step of receiving the message from the network; and

a processing step of processing the message received in said local or remote reception step.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein said processing step comprises a step of transmitting the message to an adapter for invoking function, the adapter being the destination.

9. A computer program for a computer making communication, comprising the steps of:

selecting one of remote and local transmitters according to the destination of a message;

transmitting the message from the transmitter selected in said selection step;

receiving the message at a receiver; and

transmitting the message to the destination of the message received in said receiving step.

10. The program according to claim 9, wherein in said transmitting step, the message is transmitted to an adapter for invoking function, the adapter being the destination.

11. A processing method for processing Web service description, comprising the steps of:

acquiring a parameter from the Web service description; and

selecting a remote transmitter or an invocation unit in a local module according to the parameter acquired in said acquiring step.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising a step of transmitting a message from the remote transmitter to a node on a network.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the Web service description selecting the remote transmitter and the Web service description selecting the invocation unit in the local module have different name spaces from each other.

14. A processing apparatus for processing Web service description, comprising:

processing means for acquiring a parameter from the Web service description; and

selection means for selecting a remote transmitter or an invocation unit in a local module according to the parameter acquired by said processing means.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising means for transmitting a message from the remote transmitter to a node on a network.

16. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the Web service description selecting the remote transmitter and the Web service description selecting the invocation unit in the local module have different name spaces from each other.

17. A computer program for a computer for processing Web service description, comprising the steps of:

acquiring a parameter from the Web service description; and

selecting a remote transmitter or an invocation unit in a local module according to the parameter acquired in said acquiring step.

18. The program according to claim 17, further comprising a step of transmitting a message from the remote transmitter to a node on a network.

19. The program according to claim 17, wherein the Web service description selecting the remote transmitter and the Web service description selecting the invocation unit in the local module have different name spaces from each other.