Communication system

• US 7,835,688 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2007
• Issued: 11/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tokoro, Mario
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming; William D
• Application Number:
  US11/978,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20080064392A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• Field of Search: 455/3.03, 455/552.1, 709/200
• US Class Current: 455/3.03
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4535 using an address exchange platform which sets up a session between two nodes, e.g. rendezvous servers, session initiation protocols [SIP] registrars or H.323 gatekeepers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0892 by using authentication-authorization-accounting [AAA] servers or protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/18 using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving distinctive intermediate devices or communication paths H04L9/0827; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for authentication using a plurality of channels H04L9/3215
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1026 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1036 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/50 Telephonic communication in combination with video communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0027 Collaboration services where a computer is used for data transfer and the telephone is used for telephonic communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 : Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 : Setup of multiple wireless link connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 : Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 : Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 : adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

In a communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are exchanged. The IP addresses are required for communicating image data by first and second terminal adapters associated with the first and second portable-telephone devices respectively through an OCN. Image data is then transmitted to the IP addresses received in the communication through the OCN.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first communicator to communicate with a portable communication device through a first communication link, and

a second communicator to communicate with another information processing apparatus through a second communication link that is not routed through said portable communication device, the first communicator obtains address information of said another information processing apparatus to establish the second communication link via said second communicator, and the information processing apparatus is in communication with the another information processing apparatus through the second communication link,

wherein the first communication link has a range that is shorter than the range of the second communication link.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first communication link is infrared and the second communication link is through the Internet.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first communicator is enabled to receive data other than voice data of the portable communication device and the second communicator is enabled to send the data other than voice data over the second communication link.

2. A communication method for communicating with another information communication apparatus including a first communicator that communicates with a portable communication device through a first communication link, and a second communicator that communicates with another information processing apparatus comprising steps of:

at said first communicator, obtaining address information of said another information processing apparatus to establish a second communication link via said second communicator that is not routed through said portable communication device, and

at said second communicator, communicating with said another information processing apparatus via the second communication link based on said address information,

wherein the first communication link has a range that is shorter than the range of the second communication link.

5. The information processing method of claim 2, wherein the first communication link is infrared and the second communication link is through the Internet.

8. The information processing method of claim 5, wherein the first communicator enabled to receive data other than voice data of the portable communication device and the second communicator is enabled to send the data other than voice data over the second communication link.

3. A non-tangible computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a program for implementing a communication method for communicating with another information communication apparatus including a first communicator that communicates with a portable communication device through a first communication link, and a second communicator that communicates with another information processing apparatus, said method comprising the steps of:

at said first communicator, obtaining address information of said another information processing apparatus to establish a communication link via said second communicator that is not routed through said portable communication device, and

at said second communicator, communicating with said another information processing apparatus via the second communication link based on said address information,

wherein the first communication link has a range that is shorter than the range of the second communication link.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the first communication link is infrared and the second communication link is through the Internet.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the first communicator enabled to receive data other than voice data of the portable communication device and the second communicator is enabled to send the data other than voice data over the second communication link.