Communication system

• US 20080104691A1
• Filed: 10/24/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Yasumasa, Shima, Koji, Fukazawa, Shigeru, Matsukawa, Fumikazu, Takeda, Nobuyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/976,396
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104691A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals and a server apparatus, the server apparatus includes a first memory stores a group table which correlates the connection information with the groups, a terminal ID of a first communication terminal, and a terminal ID of a second communication terminal, a notifying unit refers to the group table, notify a first communication terminal in each group of a server ID, based on the result of reference, and a first transmitter compares the terminal ID included in the acquisition request with terminal IDs in the group table, transmits adequate connection information to the first communication terminal, based on the result of comparison, and the first communication terminal includes a second memory stores the server ID, a second transmitter transmits the connection information acquisition request to the server apparatus, a controller sets the connection information in the processor.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a plurality of communication terminals are connected a communication network, are assigned terminal IDs, and execute communication by setting in a processor a connection information necessary for execution of communication among the communication terminals;

a server apparatus is connected the communication terminals through the communication network, is assigned server ID, and informs the communication terminals of the connection information;

wherein the server apparatus comprises a first memory which stores a group table which correlates with the groups formed by dividing the communication terminals, a terminal ID of a first communication terminal as the representative of the groups, a terminal ID of a second communication terminal different from the first communication terminal, and the connection information;

a notifying unit to refer to the group table, and notify a first communication terminal in each group of a server ID, based on a result of reference; and

a first transmitter which compares the terminal ID of the first communication terminal included in the acquisition request with terminal IDs in the group table, when the connection information acquisition request is sent from the first communication terminal in response to the notification of server ID, and transmits adequate connection information in the group table to the first communication terminal, based on a result of comparison, and

the first communication terminal comprises a second memory which stores the server ID when the server ID is notified by the server apparatus;

a second transmitter which transmits the connection information acquisition request to the server apparatus, based on the server ID stored in the second memory; and

a controller which sets the connection information in the processor, when the connection information is sent from the server apparatus in response to the acquisition request.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the controller informs the user of the acceptance of connection, when acceptance of connection is informed by the server apparatus.

3. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first communication terminal includes a third transmitter which transmits the server ID stored in the second memory to the second communication terminal in response to the server ID acquisition request from the second communication terminal, and

the second communication terminal includes a fourth transmitter which transmits the server ID acquisition request in the group by a broadcast;

and a communication controller which transmits the connection information acquisition request to the server apparatus based on the server ID sent from the first communication terminal, and sets the connection information in the processor, when the connection information is sent from the server apparatus in response to the transmission of the acquisition request, and

the first transmitter of the server apparatus compares the terminal ID of the second communication terminal included in the acquisition request with the terminal ID in the group table, when the connection information acquisition request is sent from the second communication terminal, and transmits adequate connection information in the group table to the second communication terminal.

4. The communication system according to claim 3, wherein the communication controller of the second communication terminal informs the user of the acceptance of connection, when acceptance of connection is informed by the server apparatus.