INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONFERENCE SYSTEM

• US 20140074930A1
• Filed: 08/28/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: KUMASHIO, Hiroya
• Granted Patent: US 9,753,888 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/17306 Intercommunication techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission

Abstract

An information processing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a request to acquire a content to be shared among a plurality of client terminals attending a conference, from at least one of the plurality of client terminals; a determining unit configured to use first information to determine whether the content is allowed to be provided in response to the request from the at least one of the plurality of client terminals, the first information being used for attending the conference during the conference and used for acquiring the content at times other than during the conference when the content is allowed to be provided; and a providing unit configured to provide the content to the at least one of the plurality of client terminals which is a source of the request, when a result of the determination is that the content is allowed to be provided.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a content acquisition request receiving unit configured to receive a content acquisition request to acquire a content, which is to be shared among a plurality of client terminals attending a conference, from at least one of the plurality of client terminals;

a content provision allowance determining unit configured to use first information to determine whether the content is allowed to be provided in response to the content acquisition request from the at least one of the plurality of client terminals, the first information being used for attending the conference during the conference and used for acquiring the content at times other than during the conference when the content is allowed to be provided; and

a content providing unit configured to provide the content to the at least one of the plurality of client terminals which is a source of the content acquisition request, when a result of the determination is that the content is allowed to be provided.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the content provision allowance determining unit determines that the content is allowed to be provided in response to the content acquisition request, when the content is allowed to be provided at times other than during the conference and the first information is included in the content acquisition request from the at least one of the plurality of client terminals.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the content provision allowance determining unit determines that the content is allowed to be provided in response to the content acquisition request, when the content acquisition request from the at least one of the plurality of client terminals includes, in addition to the first information, second information according to a specification different from that of the first information.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the second information is specified information set in an arbitrary field specified in a HTTP header.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the second information is specified information set in a User-Agent field in a HTTP header.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the content provision allowance determining unit determines that the content is not allowed to be provided in response to the content acquisition request, when the content is not allowed to be provided at times other than during the conference.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a data converting unit configured to divide the content into predetermined units, wherein

the content provision allowance determining unit provides the content, which has been divided into the predetermined units by the data converting unit, to the at least one of the plurality of client terminals which is the source of the content acquisition request, when the result of the determination is that the content is allowed to be provided.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes an information processing device to execute a process comprising:

receiving a content acquisition request to acquire a content, which is to be shared among a plurality of client terminals attending a conference, from at least one of the plurality of client terminals;

determining, by using first information, whether the content is allowed to be provided in response to the content acquisition request from the at least one of the plurality of client terminals, the first information being used for attending the conference during the conference and used for acquiring the content at times other than during the conference when the content is allowed to be provided; and

providing the content to the at least one of the plurality of client terminals which is a source of the content acquisition request, when a result of the determination is that the content is allowed to be provided.

9. A conference system comprising:

a plurality of client terminals attending a conference;

at least one information processing device configured to provide a content that is to be shared among the plurality of client terminals;

a content acquisition request receiving unit configured to receive a content acquisition request to acquire the content, from at least one of the plurality of client terminals;

a content provision allowance determining unit configured to use first information to determine whether the content is allowed to be provided in response to the content acquisition request from the at least one of the plurality of client terminals, the first information being used for attending the conference during the conference and used for acquiring the content at times other than during the conference when the content is allowed to be provided; and

a content providing unit configured to provide the content to the at least one of the plurality of client terminals which is a source of the content acquisition request, when a result of the determination is that the content is allowed to be provided.