Data-update monitoring in communications network

• US 6,249,817 B1
• Filed: 01/07/1999
• Issued: 06/19/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AI Soft Incorporated, Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: AI Soft Incorporated, Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Sato, Akihiro, Kobayashi, Takahiro, Hiraoka, Yasushi, Nakabayashi, Kaoru, Kitazawa, Noboru, Yudasaka, Shingo
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Krisna
• Application Number:
  US09/226,844
• Time in Patent Office: 894 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/223, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A user I/F unit 200 transmits an instruction given by a user to an access management unit 100 and displays data on a monitor 76. The access management unit 100 transfers requirements to a communication control unit 300 and a data management unit 400 in response to the instruction from the user, transfers data from a communications host to the data management unit 400, and outputs data from a database 410 to the user I/F unit 200. The data management unit 400 writes data into the database 410 and reads storage data from the database 410 in response to the requirement from the access management unit 100. Data transmitted from the communications host are sorted out according to communication services and stored in the database 410. The communication control unit 300 translates the requirement from the access management unit 100 to a menu number representing each communication service available from the communications host or a command and sends the translated requirement to a communication I/F unit 500. This structure enables input data to be sorted out and stored without any overlap.

Claims

1. A data-update monitor server connected to a server via a network for monitoring update of specific data stored in said server via said network and transferring information obtained as a result of the update monitor to a client, said data-update monitor server comprising:

storage means for storing the specific data;

access means for accessing said server based on information that represents an address of the specific data and is given by said client;

update checking means for, when said access means accesses said server, checking update of the specific data;

difference data specifying means for, when it is determined that the specific data have been updated as a result of the update check by said update checking means, specifying a non-coincident portion of updated specific data transmitted from said server and received by said access means, which does not coincident with the non-updated specific data stored in said storage means, as difference data; and

transfer means for transferring specific information included in the specified difference data to said client.

2. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, wherein said access means comprises link data receiving means for, when link data exists with respect to the difference data, accessing a particular server, in which the link data are stored, via said network and receiving the link data from said particular server, based on information representing an address of the link data,

said transfer means comprising:

means for transferring the specific information included in the difference data as well as information expressed by the link data received with respect to the difference data, to said client.

3. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, said data-update monitor server further comprising:

retrieving means for retrieving particular information that satisfies a certain condition preset corresponding to said client, among the specific information included in the difference data,

wherein said transfer means transfers the retrieved particular information to said client.

4. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, said data-update monitor server further comprising:

retrieving means for retrieving particular information corresponding to positional information representing a position where said client exists, among the specific information included in the difference data,

wherein said transfer means transfers the retrieved particular information to said client.

5. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, wherein said transfer means adds attributive information related to the specific information included in the difference data and transfers the specific information with the attributive information.

6. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, said data-update monitor server further comprising:

data processing means for carrying out a process corresponding to said client for data representing the transferred specific information.

7. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 6, wherein said data processing means carries out a specific process, which satisfies a restricting condition with respect to a display size applied to display of information in said client, for the data representing the specific information.

8. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 6, wherein said data processing means carries out a specific process, which satisfies a restricting condition with respect to a color system applied to display of information in said client, for the data representing the specific information.

9. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, said data-update monitor server further comprising:

input means for inputting information to be transferred to said client,

wherein said transfer means transfers the input information to said client, separately from the specific information included in the difference data.

10. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, said data-update monitor server further comprising:

registration means for previously registering the information that represents the address of the specific data and is given by said client.

11. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, wherein said transfer means transfers the specific information included in said difference data to said client when said difference data specifying means specifies said difference data.

12. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, wherein said transfer means transfers the specific information included in said difference data to said client when said client requires a transfer.

13. A data-update monitor server in accordance with claim 1, wherein said access means periodically accesses said server.

14. A data-update monitor server connected to a server via a network for monitoring update of specific data stored in said server via said network and transferring information obtained as a result of the update monitor to a client, said data-update monitor server comprising:

access means for accessing said server based on information representing an address of the specific data;

update checking means for, when said access means accesses said server, checking update of the specific data; and

transfer means for transferring a result of the update check by said update checking means to said client.

15. A method of monitoring update of data stored in a server and transferring information obtained as a result of the update monitor to a client, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) accessing said server based on information representing an address of the specific data;

(b) checking update of the specific data; and

(c) transferring a result of the update check in said step (b) to said client.