Display Generating Device, Display Generating Method, Program, and Wireless Communication System

• US 20090196207A1
• Filed: 01/28/2009
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: WATANABE, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,233,423 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5012 determining service availability, e.g. which services are available at a certain point in time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5077 wherein the managed service relates to simple transport services, i.e. providing only network infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/12 Shortest path evaluation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing

Abstract

A display generating device includes a display screen generator generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in a wireless network in which a plurality of the wireless communication devices operate in an autonomous and distributed manner, and a detector detecting an operation of changing connection status performed by a user via the display screen generated by the display screen generator, wherein, when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the display generating device performs a change process of reflecting the content of the operation of changing connection status.

Claims

1. A display generating device comprising:

a display screen generator generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in a wireless network in which a plurality of the wireless communication devices operate in an autonomous and distributed manner; and

a detector detecting an operation of changing connection status performed by a user via the display screen generated by the display screen generator, wherein

when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the display generating device performs a change process of reflecting the content of the operation of changing connection status.

2. The display generating device according to claim 1, wherein

the display generating device has a function of the wireless communication device configuring the wireless network, further comprising:

a path setter setting a path to another wireless communication device in the wireless network, wherein

when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the path setter resets, as the change process, the path to the other wireless communication device according to the content of the operation of changing connection status.

3. The display generating device according to claim 1, wherein

when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the display screen generator generates, as the change process, a display screen reflecting the content of the operation of changing connection status.

4. The display generating device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a transmitter transmitting, when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the content of the operation of changing connection status to the wireless communication device in the wireless network.

5. A display generating method, comprising the steps of:

generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in a wireless network in which a plurality of the wireless communication devices operate in an autonomous and distributed manner;

detecting an operation of changing connection status performed by a user via the display screen; and

performing, when the operation of changing connection status is detected, a change process of reflecting the content of the operation of changing connection status.

6. A program causing a computer to function as:

a display screen generator generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in a wireless network in which a plurality of the wireless communication devices operate in an autonomous and distributed manner; and

a detector detecting an operation of changing connection status performed by a user via the display screen generated by the display screen generator, wherein

the program causes the computer to perform, when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, a change process of reflecting the content of the operation of changing connection status.

7. A wireless communication system comprising a plurality of wireless communication devices that operate in an autonomous and distributed manner and configure a wireless network, wherein

each of the plurality of the wireless communication devices includes:

a path setter setting a path to another wireless communication device in the wireless network;

a display screen generator generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in the wireless network; and

a detector detecting an operation of changing connection status performed by a user via the display screen generated by the display screen generator, wherein

when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the path setter resets the path to the other wireless communication device according to the content of the operation of changing connection status.