Patent ID: 11941432
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 3:
4. A processing method used in a processing system including a high-order system and a low-order system, the high-order system processing a high-order workflow and transmitting a processing command to the low-order system, the low-order system processing a low-order workflow in accordance with the processing command from the high-order system and transmitting a device command to a device, the processing method comprising:
by the high-order system, transmitting a processing command for asynchronous processing to the low-order system;
by the low-order system, upon receiving the processing command from the high-order system, transmitting a device command to the device;
when transmission of the device command to the device is detected, by the low-order system, notifying the high-order system of an identifier of the device to which the device command was transmitted and the device command, and
by the high-order system, receiving, from the low-order system, a notice related to the device command to be executed by the device in the asynchronous processing, and updating progress data in which the identifier of the device and the device command to be executed by the device are associated with each other.