SYSTEM, DISPLAY POSITION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20160274855A1
• Filed: 03/17/2016
• Published: 09/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: MIKI, Morio
• Granted Patent: US 10,241,736 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2356/00 Detection of the display position w.r.t. other display screens
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties

Abstract

A system includes a first processor and terminals connected to the first processor via a network. Each terminal has a second processor. The terminals includes a first terminal that transmits target data by a first user to a second terminal, so that the target data is received by the second terminal and displayed on a second column. The first processor refers to role data including identification data of the terminals associated with identification data of roles of users, determines a role of the user associated to a name of the first terminal, attaches identification data of a role of the first user to the target data, and transmits the target data and the attached identification data. The second processor receives the target data and the attached identification data and determines a position at which the target data is displayed on the second column based on role display data.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a first processor; and

a plurality of terminal devices connected to the first processor via a network, each of the plurality of terminal devices having a second processor, the plurality of terminal devices including a first terminal device that transmits target data registered in a first display column by a first user of the first terminal device to a second terminal device, so that the target data is received by the second terminal device and displayed on a second display column of the second terminal device;

wherein the first processor is configured to refer to role data that includes identification data of the plurality of terminal devices associated with identification data of roles of users of the plurality of terminal devices and to determine a role of the user of the first terminal device associated to an identification name of the first terminal device,

wherein the first processor is configured to attach identification data of a role of the first user to the target data and transmit the target data and the attached identification data of the role of the first user,

wherein the second processor is configured to receive the target data and the attached identification data of the role of the first user,

wherein the second processor is configured to determine a position at which the target data is displayed on the second display column based on role display correspondence data,

wherein the role display correspondence data includes the identification data of roles of the users of the plurality of terminal devices associated with display positions in the second display column, and

wherein the display positions indicate a position at which the target data is to be displayed on the second display column.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein each of the plurality of terminal devices includes a role data storage unit that stores the role data received from the first processor,

wherein the second processor is configured to determine the role of the first user associated to the identification data of the first terminal device by using the role data stored in the role data storage unit, and

wherein the second processor is configured to attach the identification data of the role of the first user to the target data and transmit the target data to each of the plurality of terminal devices via the first processor.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the role data storage unit is further configured to store the role display correspondence data transmitted from the first processor, and

wherein the second processor is further configured to determine a position for position at which the target data is displayed on the second display column based on role display correspondence data.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the first processor includes a first role data storage unit that stores the role data,

wherein the first processor refers to the role data stored in the first role data storage unit and determines the role of the user of the first terminal device associated to the identification name of the first terminal device, and

wherein the first processor is configured to attach the identification data of the role of the first user to the target data and transmit the target data attached with the identification data of the role of the first user to each of the plurality of terminal devices.

5. The system as claimed in claim 4,

wherein each of the plurality of terminal devices includes a second role data storage unit that stores the role display correspondence data transmitted from the first processor, and

wherein the second processor is configured to determine the position determine a position at which the target data is displayed on the second display column based on the role display correspondence data stored in the second role data storage unit.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the display column includes a chat screen, and

wherein the target data includes data that is registered by using a chat function and displayed on the chat screen.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of processors are provided as the first processor.

8. A display position determination method in a system including a first processor and a plurality of terminal devices connected to the first processor via a network, the method comprising:

determining a role of a user of a first terminal device associated to an identification name of the first terminal device by referring to role data that includes identification data of the plurality of terminal devices associated to identification data of the roles of users of the plurality of terminal devices;

transmitting target data attached with the identification data of the role of the first user, the target data being registered in a first display column by a first user of a first terminal device included in the plurality of terminal devices;

receiving the target data attached with the identification data of the role of the first user; and

determining a position at which the target data is displayed on a second display column of a second terminal device included in the plurality of terminal devices;

wherein the role display correspondence data includes the identification data of roles of the users of the plurality of terminal devices associated with display positions in the second display column;

wherein the display positions indicate a position at which the target data is to be displayed on the second display column.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded for causing a computer to execute a display position determination process in a system including a first processor and a plurality of terminal devices connected to the first processor via a network, the display position determination process comprising:

determining a role of a user of a first terminal device associated to an identification name of the first terminal device by referring to role data including identification data of the plurality of terminal devices associated to identification data of the roles of users of the plurality of terminal devices;

transmitting target data attached with the identification data of the role of the first user, the target data being registered in a first display column by a first user of a first terminal device included in the plurality of terminal devices;

receiving the target data attached with the identification data of the role of the first user; and

determining a position at which the target data is displayed on a second display column of a second terminal device included in the plurality of terminal devices;

wherein the role display correspondence data includes the identification data of roles of the users of the plurality of terminal devices associated with display positions in the second display column;

wherein the display positions indicate a position at which the target data is to be displayed on the second display column.