INFORMATION NOTIFICATION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD
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Abstract
An information notification apparatus includes: a communication unit which receives first device information and first history information from a first device and then transmits notification; an information collection database which holds, based on the first device information received by the communication unit, the received first history information in association with the held first device information; a determination unit which determines need to transmit notification of the first device when information included in the first history information held in the information collection database satisfies a condition; a display device designation unit which designates, based on destination information and the received first device information, a display device on which notification of the first device is to be displayed; and a generation unit which generates notification when the determination unit determines need to transmit the notification of the first device, wherein the communication unit transmits the generated notification to the designated display device.
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33 Claims
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12. An information notification apparatus comprising:
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a communication unit configured to receive, from each of a plurality of devices which operate on receipt of an input from a user, a device information item uniquely identifying the each of the devices, and history information of the devices, the history information including at least one of (i) a control information item for the each of the devices and (ii) a state information item indicating a state for the each of the devices; an information collection database which holds, in association with each other, an information item of the user owning the each of the devices, the device information item for the each of the devices, and the history information of the devices received by the communication unit; a determination unit configured to determine that it is necessary to transmit notification of a first device when information held in the information collection database satisfies a predetermined condition, the first device being one of the devices; a display device designation unit configured to designate, when the determination unit determines that it is necessary to transmit the notification of the first device, a second device on which the notification of the first device is to be displayed, based on the history information of the devices held in the information collection database, the second device being one of a plurality of display devices; and a generation unit configured to generate the notification when the determination unit determines that it is necessary to transmit the notification of the first device, wherein the communication unit is further configured to transmit the generated notification to the display device designated by the display device designation unit. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An information displaying method in a system which controls a plurality of devices each of which operates on receipt of an input from a user, an information notification apparatus which obtains an information item about an operation state from the each of the devices, and a plurality of display devices each of which obtains and displays an information item about an operation state of at least a first device among the devices from the information notification apparatus, the information displaying method comprising:
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determining that it is necessary to notify the information item about the operation state of the first device when the information item about the operation state of the first device satisfies a predetermined condition; notifying the operation state of the first device among the display devices by designating the first display device on which notification is to be displayed; displaying the notified information item about the operation state of the first device on the designated first display device; determining that it is necessary to notify an information item about an operation state of a second device when the information item about the operation state of the second device among the devices satisfies a predetermined condition, the second device being different from the first device; designating and notifying a second display device on which notification of the operation state of the second device among the display devices is to be displayed, the second display device being different from the first display device; displaying the notified information item about the operation state of the second device on the designated second display device; and displaying, on the first display device, that the operation state of the second device is displayed on the second display device, along with the information item about the notified operation state of the first device.
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31. An information displaying method in a system which controls a plurality of devices each of which operates on receipt of an input from a user, an information notification apparatus which obtains an information item about an operation state from the each of the devices, and a plurality of display devices each of which obtains and displays an information item about an operation state of at least a first device among the devices from the information notification apparatus, the information displaying method comprising:
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displaying, on another area in a screen of one of the display devices, a list of icons indicating the display devices owned by the user and a list of icons indicating the devices owned by the user; and designating, by receiving, in the screen, a user operation of associating an icon indicating a first display device with an icon indicating the first display device on which notification of the operation state of the first device, among the icons indicating the display devices, is to be displayed, the first display device as a display device, among the display devices, on which notification of the operation state of the first device is to be displayed. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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Specification