INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20090055750A1
• Filed: 10/27/2008
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: OSHIMA, Takuya, Suzuki, Tadashi, Miura, Atsushi, Hirano, Yoshiaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,335,928 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

An information providing system and method and a storage medium which provide information services to each client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, through the cooperation with the operation of the object. A server apparatus has a view server for providing content to the browser, a communication server for making communication with the object, and an application sever for making the view server and the application server cooperate with each other. When a read operation from the object is performed, the communication server notifies the application server of a result of the read operation, thereby providing synchronization between the communication server and the view server.

Claims

1. A system for providing information to a client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, comprising:

a view server for providing content to said browser;

a communication server for making communication with said object; and

an application server for making said view server and said communication server cooperate with each other.