INFORMATION SHARING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION

• US 20130339459A1
• Filed: 05/30/2013
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: KUMASHIO, Hiroya
• Application Number:
  US13/905,288
• Publication Number:
  US 20130339459A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes

Abstract

An information sharing apparatus for sharing an operation on contents with another apparatus includes a generating part configured to generate a message containing a command corresponding to the operation on the contents, a sending part configured to send the message to a server, which delivers the message to the another apparatus, an interpreting part configured to interpret the message to obtain the command, and an updating part configured to update a display of the contents based on the obtained command.

Claims

1. An information sharing apparatus for sharing an operation on contents with another apparatus, the information sharing apparatus comprising:

a generating part configured to generate a message containing a command corresponding to the operation on the contents;

a sending part configured to send the message to a server, which delivers the message to the another apparatus;

an interpreting part to interpret the message to obtain the command; and

an updating part to update a display of the contents based on the obtained command.

2. The information sharing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the command corresponds to at least one of operations of designating the contents, of designating a display page of the contents, of adding a graphic or a character to the contents, of deleting the graphic or the character from the contents, and of adding handwritten data to the contents.

3. The information sharing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the generating part generates the message, which can be interpreted by the another apparatus and contains the command corresponding to the operation on the contents.

4. The information sharing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the updating part updates a data structure of the contents based on the obtained command.

5. The information sharing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the message is exchanged by an instant messenger.

6. The information sharing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the instant messenger uses an eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).

7. An information sharing system comprising:

a plurality of information sharing apparatuses for sharing an operation on contents with one another; and

a server, which can deliver a message to the plurality of information sharing apparatuses, wherein the information sharing system includes

a registering part for registering the information sharing apparatuses,

a generating part configured to generate a message containing a command corresponding to the operation on the contents;

a delivering part configured to deliver the message, through the server, to the information sharing apparatuses registered by the registering part;

an interpreting part configured to interpret the message to obtain the command; and

an updating part configured to update a display of the contents based on the obtained command.

8. The information sharing system according to claim 7, wherein

the command corresponds to at least one of operations of designating the contents, of designating a display page of the contents, of adding a graphic or a character to the contents, of deleting the graphic or the character from the contents, and of adding handwritten data to the contents.

9. The information sharing system according to claim 8, wherein

the generating part generates the message capable of being interpreted by at least one of the information sharing apparatuses, which does not include the generating part.

10. The information sharing system according to claim 9, wherein

the updating part updates a data structure of the contents based on the obtained command.

11. The information sharing system according to claim 7, wherein

the message is exchanged by an instant messenger.

12. The information sharing system according to claim 11, wherein

the instant messenger uses an eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).

13. A method of processing information of sharing an operation on contents between apparatuses, the method of processing the information comprising:

generating a message containing a command corresponding to the operation on the contents;

sending the message from one of the apparatuses to a server, which delivers the message to another one of the apparatuses;

interpreting the message to obtain the command; and

updating a display of the contents based on the obtained command.