Communication System, Network System, Information Controller and Terminal Equipment

• US 20070201358A1
• Filed: 08/09/2006
• Published: 08/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hirofumi Kawamura, Motohiko Nagano, Motomasa Futagami, Yoji Kawamoto
• Original Assignee: Hirofumi Kawamura, Motohiko Nagano, Motomasa Futagami, Yoji Kawamoto
• Inventors: Nagano, Motohiko, Kawamoto, Yoji, Kawamura, Hirofumi, Futagami, Motomasa
• Granted Patent: US 8,161,129 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

In a communication system and an information controller terminal equipment of a user, that is to say, a receiver of information is specified in a server side. And in a network system, a terminal equipment and a network server a position of a user is specified in a server side. The information of a terminal equipment used by the user among the pieces of terminal equipment 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 53, 54 and 70 connected to a network 10 is registered in prescribed registering means 20 and a transmission path from the terminal equipment 70 of a transmitter to the terminal equipment 53 of a receiver is determined on the basis of the registered information of the terminal equipment, so that the user can assuredly transmit the information to the terminal equipment of the receiver in the transmission path suitable for the information without any consciousness of the user. Further, the information of the terminal equipment used by a user and the terminal equipment connected to the terminal equipment used by the user among the pieces of terminal equipment 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 53 and 54 connected to the network is registered in prescribed registering means 21 together with information for identifying the user as available environmental information, and provided information is transmitted to the terminal equipment specified by the registered available environmental information. Accordingly, the environment of the terminal equipment used by the user can be readily grasped. Thus, the provided information can be assuredly transmitted to users present in various terminal environments.

Claims

1. A communication system for exchanging information through a network, wherein

the information of the pieces of terminal equipment connected to said network system is registered in information control means connected to said network system, and

when prescribed information is transmitted to the terminal equipment of a receiver connected to said network from the terminal equipment of a transmitter connected to said network, a transmission path for transmitting said information from said terminal equipment of the transmitter to said terminal equipment of the receiver is determined on the basis of said registered information.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein

said information transmitted from said terminal equipment of the transmitter is converted into information which can be received by said terminal equipment of the receiver.

3. An information controller connected to a network comprising:

registering means for registering the information of terminal equipment connected to said network system; and

communication path determining means for determining the transmission path of said information from said terminal equipment of a transmitter to said terminal equipment of a receiver on the basis of said registered information when prescribed information is transmitted to said terminal equipment of the receiver connected said network from the terminal equipment of the transmitter connected to said network.

4. The information controller according to claim 3, wherein

said information control means is provided with converting means for converting said information transmitted from said terminal equipment of the transmitter into information capable of being received by said terminal equipment of the receiver.

5. A network system for exchanging information via a network, wherein

the information of terminal equipment used by a user and terminal equipment connected to said terminal equipment used by the user among the pieces of terminal equipment connected to said network is registered in prescribed registering means together with information for identifying said user as available environmental information, and

provided information is transmitted to a terminal equipment specified by said registered available environmental information.

6. The network system according to claim 5, wherein

said terminal equipment having display means for displaying prescribed provided information is selected on the basis of the available environmental information registered in said registering means and said provided information is transmitted to said selected terminal equipment.

7. The network system according to claim 5, wherein

said available environmental information includes owner information of said terminal equipment.

8. The network system according to claim 5, wherein

said available environmental information is registered in said registering means in accordance with a registration request through said terminal equipment from prescribed portable terminal means.

9. The network system according to claim 5, wherein

said available environmental information is registered in said registering means in accordance with the registration request transmitted from said terminal equipment, when prescribed external storing means is connected to said terminal equipment.

10. An information controller connected to a network comprising:

registering means for registering the information of terminal equipment used by a user and terminal equipment connected to said terminal equipment used by said user among the pieces of terminal equipment connected to said network together with information for identifying said user as available environmental information, and

transmitting means for transmitting provided information to the terminal equipment specified by the registered available environmental information.

11. The information controller according to claim 10, wherein

said transmitting means selects the terminal equipment having display means for displaying prescribed provided information on the basis of said registered available environmental information and transmits said provided information to said selected terminal equipment.

12. The information controller according to claim 10, wherein

said registering means registers the owner information of said terminal equipment.

13. A terminal equipment connected to a network comprising:

transmitting means for transmitting the identifying information of user for using said terminal equipment, identifying information peculiar to said terminal equipment and the information of connection terminal equipment connected to said terminal equipment to said network as available environmental information.

14. The terminal equipment according to claim 13 comprising:

identifying information reading means connected to prescribed external storing means for reading out the identifying information of said user from the connected external storing means, wherein

said read identifying information of said user is transmitted to said network as said available environmental information.

15. The terminal equipment according to claim 13 comprising:

identifying information receiving means for receiving the identifying information of said user transmitted from prescribed portable terminal means, wherein

said received identifying information of said user is transmitted to said network as said available environmental information.