INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, SERVICE-PROVIDING METHOD FOR AN INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND A PROGRAM FOR THE SAME
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Abstract
The effort of changing an application in conjunction with a change in process content or change in the type or specifications of a receiver can be reduced, and a cooperative process involving a plurality of receivers without going through an application can be achieved. An integrated device control service acquires output data, information related to the address of a first receiver and a first style sheet for the first receiver, and information related to the address of a second receiver and a second style sheet for the second receiver from an application and a style sheet database that stores a plurality of style sheets describing information conversion rules. In accordance with the success or failure of first conversion data distribution, the integrated device control service sends second conversion data, which is the output data converted according to the second style sheet, to the second receiver.
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25 Claims
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15. An information distribution server comprising:
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a storage unit that stores style sheets describing information conversion rules; an output data acquisition unit that acquires output data from a transmitter; a distribution information acquisition unit that acquires distribution information containing first receiver information and second receiver information, the first receiver information corresponding to a first receiver and including first information specifying a first style sheet defining information conversion rules for the first receiver, and the second receiver information corresponding to a second receiver to which information is distributed after distribution to the first receiver and including second information specifying a second style sheet defining information conversion rules for the second receiver; a distribution unit that distributes conversion data converting the output data according to the first style sheet specified by the first receiver information or the second style sheet specified by the second receiver information to the first receiver or the second receiver; and a distribution decision unit that determines if distribution of the conversion data by the distribution unit was successful;
whereinthe distribution unit distributes the output data to the second receiver in accordance with a result of a distribution success decision of the distribution decision unit, which decides if distribution of first conversion data converted according to the first style sheet to the first receiver was successful. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A service-providing method comprising:
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acquiring output data from the transmitter and distribution information containing first receiver information and second receiver information, the first receiver information corresponding to a first receiver and including first information specifying a first style sheet defining information conversion rules for the first receiver, and the second receiver information corresponding to a second receiver to which information is distributed after distribution to the first receiver and including second information specifying a second style sheet defining information conversion rules for the second receiver; distributing first conversion data converting the output data according to the first style sheet to the first receiver; determining if the first conversion data was distributed successfully; and distributing second conversion data converting the output data according to the second style sheet to the second receiver if distribution of the first conversion to the first receiver was successful. - View Dependent Claims (25)
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