Information processing system, information processing terminal, and file management method

• US 7,869,907 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2007
• Issued: 01/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kaneko, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Cuong H
• Application Number:
  US11/627,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20070185626A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 701/2, 701/70, 340/825.72, 340/665, 307/116, 200/600, 345/156, 710/38, 710/15, 709/224, 725/131
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

There is provided an information processing system having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a wireless communication device which wirelessly connects the first terminal and the second terminal with each other for communication, where the first terminal and the second terminal respectively have a file system, the information processing system including a GUI providing unit that provides a display screen of the second terminal with a GUI of the file system, an operation reception unit that receives a user operation carried out on a GUI screen provided by the GUI providing unit, an operation determination unit that determines whether the user operation received by the operation reception unit is an operation relating to the first terminal or not, and an activation unit that, upon the operation determination unit determining that the user operation is an operation relating to the first terminal, controls the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn on a power supply of the first terminal to the first terminal, and simultaneously carries out a process to wirelessly connect the first terminal and the second terminal with each other via the wireless communication device.

Claims

1. An information processing system including a first terminal, a second terminal, and a wireless communication device which wirelessly connects the first terminal and the second terminal with each other for communication, wherein the first terminal and the second terminal respectively have a file system, the information processing system comprising:

a GUI providing unit configured to provide a display screen of the second terminal with a GUI of the file system;

an operation reception unit configured to receive a user operation carried out on a GUI screen provided by said GUI providing unit;

an operation determination unit configured to determine whether or not the user operation received by the operation reception unit is an operation relating to the first terminal; and

an activation unit that, upon the operation determination unit determining that the user operation is an operation relating to the first terminal, is configured to control the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn on a power supply of the first terminal to the first terminal, and is configured to simultaneously wirelessly connect the first terminal and the second terminal with each other via the wireless communication device.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the GUI providing unit is configured to display an icon for the first terminal on the display screen identifying whether the power supply of the first terminal is turned on or off.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the operation determination unit is configured to determine whether or not the user operation is an operation to move or copy a file to the first terminal, and the activation unit, upon the operation determination unit determining that the user operation is the operation to move or copy a file to the first terminal, is configured to control the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn on a power supply of the first terminal to the first terminal, and is configured to simultaneously wirelessly connect the first terminal and the second terminal with each other.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3, further comprising a stopping unit that, upon the file having been moved or copied, or upon a predetermined timing subsequent thereto, is configured to control the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn off the power supply of the first terminal to the first terminal, and is configured to simultaneously disconnect the wireless connection between the first terminal and the second terminal.

5. The information processing system according to claim 3, further comprising:

a state determination unit configured to determine whether a state is reached where the first terminal and the second terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other as a result of the activation unit wirelessly connecting the first terminal with the second terminal;

a buffering unit that, upon the state determination unit determining that a state has not been reached where the first terminal and the second terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other, is configured to store information on the user operation in a memory; and

a control unit that, upon the state determination unit determining that a state has been reached where the first terminal and the second terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other after the buffering unit stores the information on the user operation in the memory, is configured to move or copy the file specified by the user operation to the first terminal according to the information on the user operation stored in the memory.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the second terminal includes an information storage unit that is configured to store hierarchical structures of files managed by the file systems of the first terminal and the second terminal, and the GUI providing unit is configured to display a file of the first terminal and a file of the second terminal as icons on the display screen of the second terminal based on the information on the hierarchical structures stored in said information storage unit.

7. An information processing system including a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, a wireless communication device which wirelessly connects the first terminal, the second terminal, and the third terminal with each other for communication, wherein the first terminal, the second terminal, and the third terminal respectively have a file system, the information processing system comprising:

a GUI providing unit configured to provide a display screen of the second terminal with a GUI of the file system;

an operation reception unit configured to receive a user operation carried out on a GUI screen provided by said GUI providing unit;

an operation determination unit configured to determine whether or not a user operation received by the operation reception unit is an operation relating to at least either one of the first terminal and the third terminal; and

an activation unit that, upon the operation determination unit determining that the user operation is an operation relating to at least either one of the first terminal and the third terminal, is configured to control the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn on a power supply of the terminal to be operated to the terminal to be operated, and is configured to simultaneously wirelessly connect the terminal to be operated and the second terminal with each other.

8. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein the second terminal includes an information storage unit that stores hierarchical structures of files managed by the file systems of the first terminal and the third terminal, wherein the GUI providing unit is configured to display a file of the first terminal and a file of the third terminal as icons on the display screen of the second terminal based on the information on the hierarchical structures stored in the information storage unit, wherein the activation unit, upon the operation determination unit determining that the user operation received by said operation reception unit is an operation to move or copy a file from the first terminal to the third terminal, is configured to control the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn on a power supply of the first terminal and the third terminal to the first terminal and the third terminal, and is configured to simultaneously wirelessly connect the first terminal, the second terminal, and the third terminal with each other, and after the file is moved or copied from the first terminal to the second terminal, the file is moved or copied from the second terminal to the third terminal.

9. The information processing system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a first state determination unit configured to determine whether a state is reached where the first terminal and the second terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other as a result of the activation unit wirelessly connecting the terminal to be operated and the second terminal;

a buffering unit that, upon the first state determination unit determining that a state is not reached where the first terminal and the second terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other, is configured to store information on the user operation in a memory; and

a control unit that, upon the first state determination unit determining that a state is reached where the first terminal and the second terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other after the buffering unit stores the information on the user operation in the memory, is configured to move or copy the file specified by the user operation from the first terminal to the second terminal according to the information on the user operation stored in the memory.

10. The information processing system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a second state determination unit configured to determine whether a state is reached where the second terminal and the third terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other as a result of the process carried out by the activation unit;

a buffering unit that, upon the second state determination unit determining that a state is not reached where the second terminal and the third terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other, is configured to store information on the user operation and the file acquired from the first terminal in a memory; and

a control unit that, upon the second state determination unit determining that a state is reached where the second terminal and the third terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other after the buffering unit stores the information on the user operation and the file in the memory, is configured to copy or move the file stored in the memory from the second terminal to the third terminal according to the information on the user operation stored in the memory.

11. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein the second terminal includes an information storage unit that stores hierarchical structures of files managed by the file systems of the first terminal and the third terminal, wherein the GUI providing unit is configured to display a file of the first terminal and a file of the third terminal as icons on the display screen of the second terminal based on the information on the hierarchical structures stored in said information storage unit, wherein the activation unit, upon the operation determination unit determining that the user operation received by the operation reception unit is an operation to move or copy a file from the first terminal to the third terminal, is configured to control the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn on a power supply of the first terminal and the third terminal to the first terminal and the third terminal, and is configured to simultaneously wirelessly connect the first terminal and the third terminal with each other, and the file is directly moved or copied from the first terminal to the third terminal.

12. The information processing system according to claim 7, further comprising a stopping unit that, upon the file having been moved or copied, or upon a predetermined timing subsequent thereto, is configured to control the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn off the power supply of the terminal to be operated to the terminal to be operated, and is configured to simultaneously disconnect the wireless connection to the terminal to be operated.

13. A file management method for an information processing system including a vehicle onboard machine installed on a vehicle, an information processing terminal provided outside the vehicle, and a wireless communication device configured to wirelessly connect the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal with each other to wirelessly communicate a file wherein the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal respectively have a file system, the file management method comprising:

a first step of providing a display screen of the information processing terminal with a GUI of the file system;

a second step of receiving a user operation carried out on a GUI screen provided by the first step;

a third step of determining whether the user operation received by the second step is an operation to move or copy a file to the vehicle onboard machine;

a fourth step of, upon the third step determining that the user operation is the operation to move or copy a file to the vehicle onboard machine, controlling the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn on a power supply of the vehicle onboard machine to the vehicle onboard machine, and simultaneously wirelessly connecting the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal with each other via the wireless communication device;

a fifth step of determining whether a state is reached where the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other via the wireless communication device as a result of the process carried out by the fourth step; and

a sixth step of, upon the fifth step determining that a state is reached where the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other, moving or copying the file specified by the user operation to the vehicle onboard machine.

14. The file management method according to claim 13, further comprising a seventh step of, upon the file having been moved or copied, or upon a predetermined timing subsequent thereto in the sixth step, controlling the wireless communication device to transmit an instruction to turn off the power supply of the vehicle onboard machine to the vehicle onboard machine, and simultaneously disconnecting the wireless connection between the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal.

15. The file management method according to claim 13, further comprising:

an eighth step of, upon the fifth step determining that a state is not reached where the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other, storing information on the user operation in a memory;

a ninth step of determining whether a state is reached where the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other after the eighth step has stored the information on the user operation in the memory; and

a tenth step of, upon the ninth step determining that a state is reached where the vehicle onboard machine and the information processing terminal can wirelessly communicate with each other, moving or copying the file specified by the user operation to the vehicle onboard machine according to the information on the user operation stored in the memory.