REMOTE CONSOLE APPARATUS, REMOTE OPERATION METHOD AND REMOTE CONSOLE PROGRAM

• US 20070185955A1
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: KOIKE, Yoshio
• Application Number:
  US11/428,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20070185955A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion

Abstract

The present invention provides a remote console apparatus including a storage unit for storing a remote console program which performs a remote operation of an electronic apparatus; a file for substituting for an operation interface of the remote console program; and a storage unit for storing an operation program which is connected to the remote console program by way of the file, and automates the remote operation of the electronic apparatus by the remote console program through read and write operations of information from and to the file.

Claims

1. A remote console apparatus, including:

a storage unit for storing a remote console program which performs a remote operation of an electronic apparatus;

a file for substituting for an operation interface of the remote console program; and

a storage unit for storing an operation program which is connected to the remote console program by way of the file, and automates the remote operation of the electronic apparatus by the remote console program through read and write operations of information from and to the file.

2. The remote console apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication, and

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing the remote console program with said operation program.

3. The remote console apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication,

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing the remote console program with said operation program;

said operation program comprises the functions of writing, to the input file, a first character string constituted by at least one of a command character string, a data character string and void data which are to be transmitted to said electronic apparatus, and writing, to the control file, a second character string which indicates a transmission request for the first character string; and

the remote console program comprises the function of adding a line feed code for indicating an input break for the key board input to the first character string of the input file, and sending it out to the electronic apparatus, based on the second character string.

4. The remote console apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication,

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing the remote console program with said operation program;

and

said remote console program comprises the function of recognizing a first character string as a reserved word which indicates a category of a control code generated by the key board input, wherein

the reserved word is written to the input file, and the second character string which indicates a transmission request for the control code is written to the control file, by the operation program, thereby sending out the control code from the remote console program to the electronic apparatus.

5. The remote console apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication,

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing the remote console program with said operation program;

and

said remote console program comprises the function of recognizing a first character string as a reserved word which indicates an appropriateness of writing processing of a message coming from said electronic apparatus to the output file, wherein

the reserved word is written to the input file, and the second character string which indicates a processing request is written to the control file, by the operation program, thereby controlling an appropriateness of writing the message to the output file.

6. The remote console apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication,

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing the remote console program with said operation program;

and

said remote console program comprises the function of recognizing a first character string as a reserved word which makes the remote console program ended, wherein

the reserved word is written to the input file, and the second character string which indicates a processing request is written to the control file, by the operation program, thereby disconnecting the remote console program from said electronic apparatus followed by making the remote console program ended.

7. The remote console apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said remote console program comprises the function of constantly displaying a console message including information exchanging with said electronic apparatus and/or said operation program in an operation screen which has started the aforementioned remote console program.

8. A remote operation method, including:

a first step for connecting, by way of a file which substitutes for an operation interface, a remote console program and an operation program which provide the operation interface for the purpose of performing a remote operation of an electronic apparatus; and

a second step for automatically performing the remote operation of the electronic apparatus by way of the remote console program by the operation program performing read and write operations of information from and to the file.

9. The remote operation method according to claim 8, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication, and

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing the remote console program with said operation program.

10. The remote operation method according to claim 8, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication,

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing the remote console program with said operation program;

and

said operation program writes, to the input file, a first character string to be transmitted to said electronic apparatus, and writes, to the control file, a second character string for indicating a transmission request for the first character string, while the remote console program adds a line feed code for indicating an input break for the key board input to the first character string, and sends it out to the electronic apparatus, based on the second character string, in said second step.

11. The remote operation method according to claim 8, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication,

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing said remote console program with said operation program;

and

said operation program writes a first character string comprising a reserved word to the input file, and writes, to the control file, a second character string which indicates a processing request for the reserved word, thereby making the remote console program carry out an operation according thereto, in said second step.

12. The remote operation method according to claim 8, wherein

said remote console program restarts an exchange of information with said operation program by way of said file without waiting for a processing complete notification from said electronic apparatus at the time of transmitting the information thereto in said second step.

13. The remote operation method according to claim 8, wherein

said remote console program tries to reconnect to said electronic apparatus at a predetermined interval if a connection between the remote console program and electronic apparatus is cut off, thereby maintaining the connection between the aforementioned two in said second step.

14. A signal for carrying a remote console program, making a computer accomplish the functions of

substituting a file for an operation interface for the purpose of performing a remote operation of an electronic apparatus, and

automatically carrying out the remote operation of the electronic apparatus by using information exchanged with another operation program by way of the file.

15. The signal for carrying a remote console program according to claim 14, wherein

said operation interface includes a key board input and a display indication,

said file includes an input file corresponding to the key board input, an output file corresponding to the display indication and a control file for synchronizing the remote console program with said operation program.

16. The signal for carrying a remote console program according to claim 14, further making a computer accomplish the function of

adding a line feed code to a character string written to said file by said operation program and sending it out to said electronic apparatus.

17. The signal for carrying a remote console program according to claim 14, further making a computer accomplish

the operation according to a reserved word based on a first character string comprising a reserved word written to said file by said operation program and a second character string which indicates a processing request for the reserved word.