Program setting system, program setting method, server, client and program

• US 7,447,750 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2002
• Issued: 11/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Mori, Kyoko, Kurosawa, Ryuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Flynn; Nathan
• Assistant Examiner(s): SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A
• Application Number:
  US10/101,855
• Publication Number:
  US 20030093502A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,420 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709219-223, 709227-229, 705/16
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems

Abstract

A system for performing a setting of a program downloaded from a server to a client is provided, which includes: a communication device performing data communications between the server and the client; and a storing device storing a predetermined program and a plurality of sets of setting information for the predetermined program, in which the server includes: a first receiver section receiving specifying information sent from the client via the communication device for specifying the setting information; and a first transmitter section reading out from the storing device the predetermined program and the setting information specified by the specifying information received from the client, and sending these to the client that is the origin of the specifying information via the communication device, and in which the client includes: a second transmitter section sending the specifying information to the server via the communication device; a second receiver section receiving the predetermined program and the setting information specified by the specifying information, which are sent from the server via the communication device; and a setting section performing a setting of the predetermined program received from the server based on the setting information received from the server.

Claims

1. A system for performing a setting of a program downloaded from a server having a processor and a memory to a client having a processor and a memory, comprising:

a communication device performing data communications between the server and the client; and

a storing device storing a predetermined program including a main module, a plurality of sub-modules each corresponding to peripheral devices connected to the client and a plurality of sets of setting information making the predetermined program executable on the client, including client setting information regarding an operating environment of the client having at least one of an IP address, a user ID and a password and including designating information designating, from the plurality of sub-modules, the sub-module that is set to be executable on the client that is an origin of specifying information for specifying the setting information by using a bit array of a predetermined number of bits each corresponding to the peripheral devices,

wherein the server comprises;

a first receiver section sending, to the client, a data entry screen for entering the specifying information for specifying the setting information on the client, and receiving the specifying information that is entered through the data entry screen and is sent from the client via the communication device; and

a first transmitter section reading out, from the storing device, the main module, the sub-module designated by bit positions of the designating information and the setting information specified by the specifying information received from the client, and sending these to the client that is the origin of the specifying information via the communication device, and

wherein the client comprises;

a second transmitter section sending, to the server, the specifying information that is entered through the data entry screen sent from the server via the communication device;

a second receiver section receiving the main module, the sub-module and the setting information specified by the specifying information, that are sent from the server via the communication device; and

a setting section performing environment settings of the client itself to make the main module and the sub-module respectively received from the server executable based on the setting information received from the server and reflecting the client setting information included in the setting information received from the server in the environment settings of the client itself.

2. A program setting system according to claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of sets of setting information are stored while being made to correspond with client identification information for identifying a client;

the second transmitter section sends, as the specifying information, the client identification information for identifying its client; and

the first transmitter section reads out from the storing device the setting information corresponding to the client identification information received from the client as the setting information specified by the specifying information received from the client.

3. A method for performing a setting of a program downloaded from a server having a processor and a memory to a client having a processor and a memory, comprising:

by the server, sending, to the client, a data entry screen for entering specifying information for specifying the setting information on the client and receiving the specifying information that is entered through the data entry screen and is sent from the client;

from a storing device storing a predetermined program including a main module, a plurality of sub-modules each corresponding to peripheral devices connected to the client and a plurality of sets of setting information making the predetermined program executable on the client, including client setting information regarding an operating environment of the client having at least one of an IP address, a user ID and a password and including designating information designating, from the plurality of sub-modules, the sub-module that is set to be executable on the client that is an origin of the specifying information by using a bit array of a predetermined number of bits each corresponding to the peripheral devices, reading out the main module, the sub-module designated by the bit positions of the designating information and the setting information specified by the specifying information received from the client; and

sending these to the client that is the origin of the specifying information; and

by the client, receiving the main module, the sub-module and the setting information that is specified by the specifying information that are sent from the server; and

performing environment settings of the client itself to make the main module and the sub-module respectively received from the server executable based on the setting information received from the server and reflecting the client setting information included in the setting information received from the server in the environment settings of the client itself.

4. A program setting method according to claim 3, wherein:

the plurality of sets of setting information are stored while being made to correspond with client identification information for identifying a client, the method further comprising;

by the client, sending, as the specifying information, the client identification information for identifying its client; and

by the server, reading out from the storing device the setting information corresponding to the client identification information received from the client, as setting information specified by the specifying information received from the client.