Information management apparatus, information management method, and information management program

• US 9,253,625 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2012
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hayashida, Naoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): WOO, ANDREW M
• Application Number:
  US13/368,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20120136982A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities

Abstract

An information management unit 12 of an information management apparatus 1 represents a device as an object by a service provided and data stored in the apparatus. The information management unit 12 further sends and receives an object by a communication unit 23 and manages a surrounding apparatus as a similarly modeled object. A device policy creating unit 24 defines from objects what kind of device state is desirable when the surrounding environment is constituted by a plurality of devices in particular states as a device policy, and changes a setting of the information management apparatus 1 according to the device policy.

Claims

1. An information management method comprising:

first creating at least an object property definition and an object service definition as an abstraction object disclosable to another apparatus, the object property definition being

information concerning the own apparatus, the object service definition being information including information concerning a function;

receiving from the other apparatus at least any of an abstraction object that the other apparatus manages, data that complies with the abstraction object of the own apparatus, and a policy that defines an operating action and an operating condition of the abstraction object managed by the other apparatus;

applying the received policy to the own apparatus when an application condition is satisfied;

extracting a surrounding environment similar to a current situation from a history of the abstraction object created at the first creating;

second creating a candidate of policy with the extracted environment as the operating condition;

presenting the extracted environment to a user of the own apparatus to ask whether the candidate of policy is necessary;

applying the candidate of policy to the own apparatus when the candidate of policy is accepted by the user; and

controlling operations of the own apparatus using at least any of the abstraction object created at the first creating and the applied policy,

wherein the first creating includes changing the abstraction object of the own apparatus using the abstraction object of the other apparatus that has been acquired at the receiving.

2. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein an information management program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

first creating at least an object property definition and an object service definition as an object disclosable to another apparatuses, the object property definition being information concerning the own apparatus, the object service definition being information including information concerning a function;

receiving from the other apparatus at least any of an abstraction object that the other apparatus manages, data that complies with the abstraction object of the own apparatus, and a policy that defines an operating action and an operating condition of the abstraction object managed by the other apparatus;

applying the received policy to the own apparatus when an application condition is satisfied;

extracting a surrounding environment similar to a current situation from a history of the abstraction object created at the first creating;

second creating a candidate of policy with the extracted environment as the operating condition;

presenting the extracted environment to a user of the own apparatus to ask whether the candidate of policy is necessary;

applying the candidate of policy to the own apparatus when the candidate of policy is accepted by the user; and

controlling operations of the own apparatus using at least any of the object created at the first creating and the applied policy,

wherein the first creating includes changing the abstraction object of the own apparatus using the abstraction object of the other apparatus that has been acquired at the receiving.

3. An information management apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising;

first managing at least an object property definition and an object service definition as an abstraction object disclosable to another apparatus, the object property definition being information concerning the own apparatus, the object service definition being information including information concerning a function;

receiving from the other apparatus at least any of an abstraction object that the other apparatus manages, data that complies with the abstraction object of the own apparatus, and a policy that defines an operating action and an operating condition of the abstraction object managed by the other apparatus;

applying the received policy to the own apparatus when an application condition is satisfied;

extracting a surrounding environment similar to a current situation from a history of the abstraction object managed at the first managing;

creating a candidate of policy with the extracted environment as the operating condition;

presenting the extracted environment to a user of the own apparatus to ask whether the candidate of policy is necessary;

applying the candidate of policy to the own apparatus when the candidate of policy is accepted by the user; and

controlling operations of the own apparatus using at least any of the abstraction object that the own apparatus manages and the applied policy,

wherein the first managing includes changing the abstraction object of the own apparatus using the abstraction object of the other apparatus that has been acquired at the receiving.

4. The information management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the process comprises second managing a policy that has been received at the receiving or a policy that the own apparatus has created.

5. The information management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the operating condition includes at least any of a state of a surrounding abstraction object, number of surrounding abstraction objects, time, and a location.

6. The information management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the creating includes creating the policy from an operation that plurality of abstraction objects have in common.