Communications system, communications apparatus, method and program

• US 20070067463A1
• Filed: 06/15/2006
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kubono, Fumio, Ishibashi, Yoshihito, Kusakabe, Susumu
• Application Number:
  US11/453,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20070067463A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10326 the antenna being of the very-near field type, e.g. capacitive

Abstract

A communications system having a communications apparatus that performs communications with another communications apparatus via a communications medium; said communications apparatus includes: identification information request response means that performs a response process of transmitting identification information of said communications apparatus to said other communications apparatus in response to a request, which is transmitted from said other communications apparatus, for said identification information; application processing means that performs communications with said other communications apparatus to which said identification information is transmitted through said identification information request response means, and that performs a process related to a predetermined application; and studying means that studies, with respect to a predetermined condition, success/failure tendencies of said process related to said application performed by said application processing means; wherein said identification information request response means controls, based on a study result by said studying means, output of said identification information in response to said request.

Claims

1. A communications system having a communications apparatus that performs communications with another communications apparatus via a communications medium;

said communications apparatus comprising;

identification information request response means that performs a response process of transmitting identification information of said communications apparatus to said other communications apparatus in response to a request, which is transmitted from said other communications apparatus, for said identification information;

application processing means that performs communications with said other communications apparatus to which said identification information is transmitted through said identification information request response means, and that performs a process related to a predetermined application; and

studying means that studies, with respect to a predetermined condition, success/failure tendencies of said process related to said application performed by said application processing means;

wherein said identification information request response means controls, based on a study result by said studying means, output of said identification information in response to said request.

2. A communications apparatus that performs communications with another communications apparatus via a communications medium, said apparatus comprising:

identification information request response means that performs a response process of transmitting identification information of said communications apparatus to said other communications apparatus in response to a request, which is transmitted from said other communications apparatus, for said identification information;

application processing means that performs communications with said other communications apparatus to which said identification information is transmitted through said identification information request response means, and that performs a process related to a predetermined application; and

studying means that studies, with respect to a predetermined condition, success/failure tendencies of said process related to said application performed by said application processing means;

wherein said identification information request response means controls, based on a study result by said studying means, output of said identification information in response to said request.

3. The communications apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said identification information request response means comprises:

request acquisition means that acquires said request that is transmitted from said other communications apparatus;

identification information supplying means that supplies said identification information to said other communications apparatus as a response to said request acquired by said request acquisition means;

output control means that controls, based on said study result, the timing in which said identification information is supplied by said identification information supplying means.

4. The communications apparatus according to claim 3;

wherein said studying means studies success/failure tendencies of said process related to said application during predetermined time periods, and creates, as said study result, time-sorted priority information that indicates the priority, which addresses said tendencies, of said identification information for said other communications apparatus for each of said time periods, and

wherein said output control means controls the timing in which said identification information is supplied based on said time-sorted priority information that is created as said study result by said studying means.

5. The communications apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said output control means exercises control in such a manner that during a time period in which said priority is high, the timing in which said identification information is supplied is made earlier, and during a time period in which said priority is low, the timing in which said identification information is supplied is made later.

6. The communications apparatus according to claim 3;

wherein said studying means studies success/failure tendencies of said process related to said application for each model of said other communications apparatus, and creates, as said study result, model-sorted priority information that indicates the priority, which addresses said tendencies, of said identification information for said other communications apparatus for each model of said other communications apparatus, and

wherein said output control means controls the timing in which said identification information is supplied based on said model-sorted priority information that is created as said study result by said studying means.

7. The communications apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said output control means exercises control in such a manner that if said other communications apparatus is a model for which said priority is high, the timing in which said identification information is supplied is made earlier, and if said other communications apparatus is a model for which said priority is low, the timing in which said identification information is supplied is made later.

8. The communications apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising retaining means that temporarily retains said study result of said studying means;

wherein said output control means controls the timing in which said identification information is supplied based on said study result retained by said retaining means.

9. A communications method of a communications apparatus that performs communications with another communications apparatus via a communications medium, said method comprising:

an application processing step of performing communications with said other communications apparatus, and of performing a process related to a predetermined application;

a studying step of studying, with respect to a predetermined condition, success/failure tendencies of said process related to said application performed in said application processing step; and

an identification information request response step of performing, based on a study result obtained in said studying step, a response process of transmitting identification information of said communications apparatus to said other communications apparatus in response to a request, which is transmitted from said other communications apparatus, for said identification information.

10. A program for making a computer perform a process of performing communications with another communications apparatus via a communications medium, said program comprising:

an application processing step of performing communications with said other communications apparatus, and of performing a process related to a predetermined application;

a studying step of studying, with respect to a predetermined condition, success/failure tendencies of said process related to said application performed in said application processing step; and

an identification information request response step of performing, based on a study result obtained in said studying step, a response process of transmitting identification information of said communications apparatus to said other communications apparatus in response to a request, which is transmitted from said other communications apparatus, for said identification information.