Transmission management system, transmission system, and recording medium

• US 9,661,057 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2013
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Asai, Takahiro, Maeda, Kaoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Dalencourt, Yves
• Application Number:
  US14/417,868
• Publication Number:
  US 20150215368A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,397 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4505 using standardised directories; using standardised directory access protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/59 using proxies for addressing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/563 User guidance or feature selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/565 relating to time schedule aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

A transmission management system includes a destination name data managing unit which manages a plurality of destination name data items which indicate a plurality of names of a destination in communications between transmission terminals, a destination name data reading unit which reads a destination name data item from the plurality of destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit, and a destination name data transmitting unit which transmits the destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to a transmission terminal capable of communicating with the destination.

Claims

1. A transmission management system comprising:

processing circuitry;

a destination name data managing unit, implemented by the processing circuitry, configured to manage a plurality of destination name data items which indicate a plurality of names for a single destination in communications between transmission terminals;

a destination name data reading unit, implemented by the processing circuitry configured to read at least one destination name data item from among the plurality of destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit; and

a destination name data transmitting unit, implemented by the processing circuitry, configured to transmit the at least one read destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit, to a transmission terminal which is configured to communicate with the destination,

wherein;

the destination name data managing unit is configured to associate first destination name data items with request source identification data for identifying request source terminals capable of communicating with the destination and manage the first destination name data items associated with the request source identification data items;

the destination name data reading unit is configured to read a first destination name data item associated with a request source identification data for identifying a predetermined request source terminal from among the first destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit; and

the destination name data transmitting unit is configured to transmit the first destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to the predetermined request source terminal.

2. The transmission management system according to claim 1, wherein:

the destination name data managing unit is configured to associate second destination name data items with reservation identification data items for identifying reservations in the communications and manage the second destination name data items associated with the reservation identification data items;

the destination name data reading unit is configured to read a second destination name data item associated with a reservation identification data item for identifying a predetermined reservation from among the second destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit; and

the destination name data transmitting unit is configured to transmit the second destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to a transmission terminal which starts communications relevant to the predetermined reservation.

3. The transmission management system according to claim 1, wherein:

the destination name data managing unit is further configured to associate second destination name data items with reservation identification data items for identifying reservations relevant to the communications and manage the second destination name data items associated with the reservation identification data items;

the destination name data reading unit is configured to read, when a second destination name data item associated with a reservation identification data item for identifying a predetermined reservation is not managed by the destination name data managing unit, the first destination name data item associated with a request source identification data for identifying a predetermined request source terminal from among the first destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit; and

the destination name data transmitting unit is configured to transmit the first destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to the predetermined request source terminal which starts communications relevant to the predetermined reservation.

4. The transmission management system according to claim 1, wherein:

the destination name data managing unit is configured to manage third destination name data items indicating names of destination terminals relevant to the communications;

the destination name data reading unit is configured to read a third destination name data item from among the third destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit; and

the destination name data transmitting unit is configured to transmit the third destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to the transmission terminal configured to communicate with the destination.

5. The transmission management system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of destination name data items contain information representing names relevant to the transmission terminals or information representing names relevant to users of the transmission terminals.

6. A transmission system comprising:

the transmission management system according to claim 1; and

a transmission terminal comprising a receiver configured to receive the destination name data item from the transmission management system, and processing circuitry configured to control output of the destination name data item received by the receiver.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program representing a sequence of instructions, the program which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a process in a transmission management system, the process comprising:

providing a destination name data managing unit configured in the transmission management system to manage a plurality of destination name data items which indicate a plurality of names for a single destination in communications between transmission terminals;

reading at least one destination name data item from among the plurality of destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit; and

transmitting the at least one destination name data item to a transmission terminal which is configured to communicate with the destination,

wherein;

the process further includes,

associating, by the destination name data managing unit, first destination name data items with request source identification data for identifying request source terminals capable of communicating with the destination and manage the first destination name data items associated with the request source identification data items;

reading a first destination name data item associated with a request source identification data for identifying a predetermined request source terminal from among the first destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit; and

transmitting the read first destination name data item to the predetermined request source terminal.