ELECTRONIC UNIT, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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Abstract
The present invention relates to electronic units, communication systems and methods, information processing terminals and methods, and information processing apparatuses and methods which allow easy and quick communications. When a link pin 21A is inserted into a VCR 3, the VCR 3 reads the pin ID stored in the RF tag of the link pin 21A, and reports the pin ID and the address to a management server 1. When the management server 1 has already obtained the pin ID of a link pin 21B read by a television receiver 5, the management server 1 determines whether the group ID included in the pin ID reported by the VCR 3 is the same as the group ID included in the pin ID reported by the television receiver 5. When the management server 1 determines that they are the same, the management server 1 connects the VCR 3 to the television receiver 5. The present invention can be applied to various types of information processing apparatuses connected to a network.
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1-3. -3. (canceled)
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4. An information processing terminal characterized by comprising:
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reading means for reading, when an electronic unit for associating information processing terminals to be connected, with each other is inserted or placed, identification information stored in the electronic unit; transmission means for transmitting the identification information read by the reading means and first positional information indicating the own position on a network to an information processing apparatus for managing a connection to another information processing terminal; and connection means for connecting, when second positional information of the another information processing terminal is reported from the information processing apparatus in response to the transmission of the identification information and the first positional information performed by the transmission means, to the another information processing terminal according to the second positional information.
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