INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF

• US 20150140540A1
• Filed: 05/22/2013
• Published: 05/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Yoshikazu
• Granted Patent: US 10,395,547 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/322
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
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Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus that readily supports to provide hardware resources for implementing ICT education in the field of education. The information processing apparatus includes a device information receiver that receives, via a network, device information for identifying a device connected to a portable terminal, an education application selector that selects, based on the device information, an education application to be provided to the device, and an education application provider that provides the education application to the device via the network and the portable terminal.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a device information receiver that receives, from a portable terminal via a network, device information for identifying a device connected to the portable terminal;

an education application selector that selects, based on the device information received by said device information receiver, an education application to be provided to the device; and

an education application provider that provides the education application to the device via the network and the portable terminal.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said application selector determines a belonging education group based on at least one of an ID of the device and position information of the portable terminal, and selects an education application to be provided in accordance with the belonging education group.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a device driver selector that selects a device driver program to enable the education application selected by said education application selector to be provided to the device,

wherein said education application provider provides the education application to the device by executing the device driver program.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a computer information receiver that receives, from a computer including at least a display unit via the network, computer information for identifying the computer,

wherein said education application selector selects, based on the computer information received by said computer information receiver, the education application to be provided to the computer, and

said education application provider provides the education application to the computer via the network.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a history saving unit that saves the education application, information about a providing target of the education application, and information of a providing history of the education application in association with each other,

wherein the device information includes information about a providing target of the education application,

said education application selector acquires a providing history of the education application corresponding to the information about the providing target of the education application by referring to said history saving unit, and

said education application provider provides the education application via the network based on the acquired providing history of the education application.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said history saving unit further saves the device information and adjustment data of the device in association with each other, and

said education application provider acquires the adjustment data of the device from said history saving unit, and provides the adjustment data of the device to the device via the network.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a device status acquirer that acquires information indicating a status of the device using a function of the portable terminal; and

an operation proposal unit that proposes an operation of the device based on the information indicating the status of the device, which has been acquired by said device status acquirer.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the function of the portable terminal includes an image capturing function of a camera and a voice input function of a microphone, and the information indicating the status of the device, which is acquired by said device status acquirer, includes a video of the device, which has been captured by the camera, and a voice of a user around the device, which has been input by the microphone.

9. A control method for an information processing apparatus, comprising:

receiving, from a portable terminal via a network, device information for identifying a device connected to the portable terminal;

selecting, based on the device information received in the receiving, an education application to be provided to the device; and

providing the education application to the device via the network and the portable terminal.

10. A storage medium storing a control program of an information processing apparatus for causing a computer to execute a method, comprising:

receiving, from the portable terminal via a network, device information for identifying a device connected to a portable terminal;

selecting, based on the device information received in the receiving, an education application to be provided to the device; and

providing the education application to the device via the network and the portable terminal.

11. A portable terminal comprising:

a device connector;

a device information transmitter that transmits, to an information processing apparatus, device information for identifying a device connected to said device connector; and

a device control relay unit that relays control of the device by the information processing apparatus based on the device information.

12. The portable terminal according to claim 11, wherein said device control relay unit relays control of the device performed by executing an education application and a device driver program which are selected by the information processing apparatus based on the device information.

13. The portable terminal according to claim 11, further comprising

a device status transmitter that acquires information indicating a status of the device using at least one of a camera and a microphone, and transmits the information to the information processing apparatus, and

an operation proposal receiver that receives a proposal for an operation of the device, which is proposed by the information processing apparatus based on the information indicating the status of the device.

14. The portable terminal according to claim 13, wherein the information indicating the status of the device, which is transmitted by said device status transmitter, includes a video of the device, which has been captured by the camera, and a voice of a user around the device, which has been input by the microphone.

15. The portable terminal according to claim 11, wherein said device connector is a USB connector, and the device is a USB device connected to the USB connector via a USB cable.

16. A control method for a portable terminal including a device connector, comprising:

transmitting, to an information processing apparatus, device information for identifying a device connected to the device connector; and

relaying control of the device by the information processing apparatus based on the device information.

17. A storage medium storing a control program of a portable terminal including a device connector for causing a computer to execute a method, comprising:

transmitting, to an information processing apparatus, device information for identifying a device connected to the device connector; and

relaying control of the device by the information processing apparatus based on the device information.

18. An information processing system including a portable terminal with a device connector, a device connectable to the device connector, and an information processing apparatus connected to said portable terminal via a network,

said portable terminal comprising:

a device information transmitter that transmits device information for identifying said device connected to the device connector to said information processing apparatus; and

a device control relay unit that relays control of said device performed by said information processing apparatus based on the device information, and

said information processing apparatus comprising;

an education application selector that selects, based on the device information, an education application to be provided to said device; and

an education application provider that provides the education application to said device via the network and said portable terminal.

19. An information processing method of an information processing system including a portable terminal with a device connector, a device connectable to the device connector, and an information processing apparatus connected to the portable terminal via a network, the method comprising:

transmitting device information for identifying the device connected to the device connector from the portable terminal to the information processing apparatus;

selecting, based on the device information, an education application to be provided to the device;

providing the education application to the device via the network and the portable terminal; and

relaying, by the portable terminal, control of the device performed by the information processing apparatus based on the device information.