COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

• US 20090310601A1
• Filed: 06/11/2009
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawahata, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/482,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20090310601A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties

Abstract

A communication control device includes: a network communication unit connected to plural communication terminal devices via a network that enables communication in a booked band for communication with the plural communication terminal devices; and a control unit that, when a connection request is made from the communication terminal device but the band is not assignable, changes the band with the communication terminal device during communication to secure the band for communication with the communication terminal device that has made the connection request.

Claims

1. A communication control device comprising:

a network communication unit connected to plural communication terminal devices via a network that enables communication in a booked band for communication with the plural communication terminal devices; and

a control unit that, when a connection request is made from the communication terminal device but the band is not assignable, changes the band with the communication terminal device during communication to secure the band for communication with the communication terminal device that has made the connection request.

2. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein, when the band is not assignable, the control unit sends a response indicating that the request is not acceptable to the connection request, and when the band for communication with the communication terminal device that has made the connection request is secured thereafter, the unit sends the connection request containing information indicating the secured band to the communication terminal device that has made the connection request.

3. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein, when the band is not assignable, the control unit secures the band for communication with the communication terminal device that has made the connection request, and then, sends a response indicating that the request is not acceptable to the connection request containing information indicating the secured band.

4. A communication terminal device comprising:

a network communication unit connected to a communication control device via a network that enables communication in a booked band for communication with the communication control device; and

a control unit that, when a response that a request is not acceptable is issued to the connection request to the communication control device, makes a connection request to the communication control device using a transmission path of a narrower band than that in the network.

5. A communication system comprising:

a communication control device; and

plural communication terminal devices connected to the communication control device via a network that enables communication in a booked band,

wherein the communication control device includes a network communication unit that makes communication with the plural communication terminal devices via the network, and a control unit that, when a connection request is made from tile communication terminal device but the band is not assignable, changes the band with the communication terminal device during communication to secure the band for communication with the communication terminal device that has made the connection request, and

the communication terminal device includes a network communication unit that makes communication with the communication control device via the network, and a control unit that makes a connection request to the communication control device, and when a negative response is issued to the connection request, then makes communication with the communication control device using the secured band.

6. A communication control method comprising the steps of:

making communication with a communication terminal device connected via a network that enables communication in a booked band; and

when a connection request is made from another communication terminal device but the band is not assignable, changing the band with the communication terminal device during communication to secure the band for communication with the communication terminal device that has made the connection request.