Patent ID: 9253625
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. An information management method comprising: first creating at least an object property definition and an object service definition as an abstraction object disclosable to another apparatus, the object property definition being information concerning the own apparatus, the object service definition being information including information concerning a function; receiving from the other apparatus at least any of an abstraction object that the other apparatus manages, data that complies with the abstraction object of the own apparatus, and a policy that defines an operating action and an operating condition of the abstraction object managed by the other apparatus; applying the received policy to the own apparatus when an application condition is satisfied; extracting a surrounding environment similar to a current situation from a history of the abstraction object created at the first creating; second creating a candidate of policy with the extracted environment as the operating condition; presenting the extracted environment to a user of the own apparatus to ask whether the candidate of policy is necessary; applying the candidate of policy to the own apparatus when the candidate of policy is accepted by the user; and controlling operations of the own apparatus using at least any of the abstraction object created at the first creating and the applied policy, wherein the first creating includes changing the abstraction object of the own apparatus using the abstraction object of the other apparatus that has been acquired at the receiving.