System using electronic devices connected to network
First Claim
1. A system using electronic devices connected to a network, the system comprising:
- a plurality of electronic devices mutually connected by the network and respectively installed at mutually different locations; and
a portable information recording medium, having a function, by which, when using an electronic device among at least a portion of the electronic devices, said electronic device is communicated with and made to perform authentication;
information indicating a specific electronic device that is to be a report target being recorded in the information recording medium; and
at least one of the electronic devices having a function, by which, when in communication with the information recording medium, location information, indicating a location of said at least one electronic device, is transmitted via the network to the specific electronic device to be the report target that is recorded in the information recording medium.
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Abstract
Personal computers and other electronic devices that are connected by a network are installed in each individual office. An employee is enabled to use each individual electronic device by performing an authentication process using authentication information in an information recording medium (IC card) that is issued as an employee ID card. In the information recording medium is recorded a code C103 that indicates an electronic device that is to be a report target (for example, the employee'"'"'s own personal computer 103 installed in a Chiba Branch). When this employee goes to a Tokyo Headquarters on business and performs the authentication process using the information recording medium in order to use an electronic device 101, the code C103 is read by the electronic device 101, a location information, “Tokyo Headquarters,” which indicates the employee'"'"'s current location, is transmitted via the network to the electronic device 103 that is the report target, and the current location (the installation location of the electronic device 101) is displayed on a screen of the electronic device 103. Tasks of self-declaring destinations are made unnecessary and detailed destination displays are enabled.
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1. A system using electronic devices connected to a network, the system comprising:
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a plurality of electronic devices mutually connected by the network and respectively installed at mutually different locations; and a portable information recording medium, having a function, by which, when using an electronic device among at least a portion of the electronic devices, said electronic device is communicated with and made to perform authentication; information indicating a specific electronic device that is to be a report target being recorded in the information recording medium; and at least one of the electronic devices having a function, by which, when in communication with the information recording medium, location information, indicating a location of said at least one electronic device, is transmitted via the network to the specific electronic device to be the report target that is recorded in the information recording medium. - View Dependent Claims (2, 21, 22)
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3. A system using electronic devices connected to a network, the system comprising:
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a plurality of electronic devices mutually connected by the network and respectively installed at mutually different locations; and a portable information recording medium, having a function, by which, when using an electronic device among at least a portion of the electronic devices, said electronic device is communicated with and made to perform authentication; said information recording medium comprising; a communicating unit for communicating with each of the electronic devices; an authentication information storage unit, storing authentication information necessary for making at least a portion of the electronic devices perform correct authentication; and a report target device registration unit, storing information indicating a report target device; at least one of the electronic devices comprising; a communicating unit for communicating with the information recording medium; an authentication unit, using authentication information stored in the information recording medium when in communication therewith, to authenticate the information recording medium and permitting use of said at least one electronic device when a correct authentication result is obtained; a device identification code storage unit, storing a device identification code provided to said at least one electronic device to enable the respective electronic devices to identify each other on the network; a location information storage unit, storing location information indicating a location of installation of said at least one electronic device; and a location information transmitting unit, reading out a device identification code from the report target device registration unit of the information recording medium in communication therewith, and transmitting, via the network, the location information stored in the location information storage unit, to another electronic device specified by the read-out device identification code; and the electronic devices including a designatable electronic device which can be designated as a report target, said designatable electronic device comprising; a device identification code storage unit, storing a device identification code provided to said designatable electronic device to enable the respective electronic devices to identify each other on the network; and a location information presenting unit, storing location information transmitted via the network to said designatable electronic device and presenting the location information by a predetermined method. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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23. A method of presenting a location of a user using a system including:
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a plurality of electronic devices mutually connected by a network and respectively installed at mutually different locations; and a portable information recording medium, having a function, by which, when using an electronic device among at least a portion of the electronic devices, said electronic device is communicated with and made to perform authentication; the method comprising; recording, by the information recording medium, information indicating a specific electronic device on which a presentation of location is to be performed; transmitting, by an electronic device, when the electronic device communicates with the information recording medium, via the network, location information, indicating its own location, to the specific electronic device on which the presentation of location is to be performed, recorded inside the information recording medium; and presenting, by the specific electronic device, the location information, upon receiving the location information.
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24. A location notification system comprising:
- a plurality of fixed devices, installed at mutually different locations; and
a portable mobile device, having a function of communicating with any of the fixed devices by being brought within a communicable area of a fixed device; and
whereinthe mobile device has recorded therein information indicating a specific fixed device, and each of the fixed devices has a function, by which, when in communication with the mobile device, a location information, indicating a location of the fixed device itself, is transmitted to the specific fixed device recorded in the mobile device.
- a plurality of fixed devices, installed at mutually different locations; and
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25. A screen lock absence display system, displaying, on a screen-locked personal computer, location information of a user of the personal computer, the screen lock absence display system comprising:
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a personal computer, having a function of performing a screen lock of not accepting an operation input for a primary process until a lock release process is performed by a user and a function of displaying location information, received from the exterior, on a display in a screen-locked state; a portable information recording medium, having recorded therein identification information that specifies the personal computer or the user thereof; reading devices, being installed near each of one or more exits and entrances of a plurality of rooms and reading the identification information recorded in the information recording medium when entry into or exit from any of the rooms is performed; a door locking/unlocking device that, based on identification information read by a reading device of a specific room, controls a lock state of a door of the specific room; and an information processing device that, based on the identification information read by a reading device of a specific room, specifies the personal computer and transmits room information, indicating the specific room, as the location information to the personal computer. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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