Management device, output device, method and computer readable medium

• US 8,509,127 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2007
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Kensaku, Murai, Shinya, Goto, Masataka, Nishibayashi, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): MILLER, BRANDON J
• Application Number:
  US11/711,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20070274243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,359 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370/338, 370/328, 455/67.11, 455418-420, 455/500, 455/507, 455/517, 455 411- 413, 4554561-4563, 455/556.1, 455/557, 345/156, 345/168
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information

Abstract

There is provided with a management device including: a communication unit configured to receive input function information indicating input functions provided by input devices through a wireless network and receive reception level information indicating reception levels of signals which an output device connected to the wireless network has received from the input devices from the output device; and a determiner configured to determine an input device to be combined with the output device based on the input function information and the reception level information.

Claims

1. A management device comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive input function information indicating input functions provided by input devices through a wireless network and receive reception level information, from an output device through the wireless network, the reception level information indicating reception levels of signals which the output device connected to the wireless network has received from the input devices through the wireless network;

a determiner configured to select an input device among the input devices to be combined with the output device based on the input function information and the reception level information; and

a processing executor configured to receive an input signal transmitted from the input device combined with the output device, and execute processing based on the input signal to obtain processing information, wherein

the communication unit transmits the processing information to the output device.

2. The management device according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives the input function information from the input devices.

3. The management device according to claim 1, wherein

the determiner additionally selects an input device to be combined with the output device, having an input function different from that of the input device already combined with the output device.

4. The management device according to claim 1, wherein the determiner selects an input device having a highest reception level out of input devices having same input function.

5. The management device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an instruction signal generating unit configured to generate first instruction signals for instructing input devices which exist on the wireless network to transmit a frame for measurement with a certain transmission level and a second instruction signal for instructing the output device to measure the reception levels of the frames for measurement.

6. The management device according to claim 5, wherein the first instruction signals instruct the input devices to transmit the frame using a predetermined radio channel, and

the second instruction signal instructs the output device to measure the reception levels of the frames using the predetermined radio channel.

7. The management device according to claim 1, wherein

the communication unit receives an input signal which the input device combined with the output device transmits,

the communication unit sends the input signal to an external processing executor,

the communication unit receives from the external processing executor, processing information obtained by executing processing based on the input signal, and

the communication unit transmits the processing information to the output device.

8. The management device according to claim 1, wherein

the determiner selects the input device having an input function necessary for the output device, wherein information on the input function necessary for the output device is previously registered, or an input function informed from the output device.

9. The management device according to claim 1,

wherein the input devices each have an input function but not an output function and a processing function.

10. The management device according to claim 9,

wherein the input devices includes a wireless mouse and/or a wireless keyboard, and the output device is a wireless display device.

11. A device management method comprising:

receiving input function information indicating input functions provided by input devices through a wireless network;

receiving reception level information, from an output device through the wireless network, the reception level information indicating reception levels of signals which the output device connected to the wireless network has received from the input devices through the wireless network;

selecting an input device among the input devices to be combined with the output device based on the input function information and the reception level information;

receiving an input signal from the input device;

executing processing based on the input signal to obtain processing information; and

transmitting the processing information to the output device combined with the input device.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the input function information is received from the input devices.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

additionally selecting an input device to be combined with the output device, having an input function different from that of the input device already combined with the output device.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the selecting includes selecting an input device having a highest reception level out of input devices having same input function.

15. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

transmitting first instruction signals for instructing input devices which exist on the wireless network to transmit a frame for measurement with a certain transmission level; and

transmitting a second instruction signal for instructing the output device to measure the reception levels of the frames for measurement.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the first instruction signals instruct the input devices to transmit the frame using a predetermined radio channel, and

the second instruction signal instructs the output device to measure the reception levels of the frames using the predetermined radio channel.

17. A management device comprising a control unit configured to perform the method according to claim 11.

18. The method according to claim 11, wherein

the selecting includes selecting the input device having an input function necessary for the output device, wherein information on the input function necessary for the output device is previously registered, or an input function informed from the output device.

19. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the input devices each have an input function but not an output function and a processing function.

20. The method according to claim 19,

wherein the input devices includes a wireless mouse and/or a wireless keyboard, and the output device is a wireless display device.

21. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute instructions to perform steps comprising:

receiving input function information indicating input functions provided by input devices through a wireless network;

receiving reception level information, from an output device through the wireless network, the reception level information indicating reception levels of signals which the output device connected to the wireless network has received from the input devices through the wireless network;

selecting an input device among the input devices to be combined with the output device based on the input function information and the reception level information;

receiving an input signal from the input device;

executing processing based on the input signal to obtain processing information; and

transmitting the processing information to the output device combined with the input device.

22. A management device comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 21 and a computer to execute the instructions.

23. The medium according to claim 21, wherein

the selecting includes selecting the input device having an input function necessary for the output device, wherein information on the input function necessary for the output device is previously registered, or an input function informed from the output device.

24. The medium according to claim 21,

wherein the input devices each have an input function but not an output function and a processing function.

25. The medium according to claim 24,

wherein the input devices includes a wireless mouse and/or a wireless keyboard, and the output device is a wireless display device.