Patent ID: 9703866
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04H,H04L

Claim:
1. A music system managing method wherein a management software process activated on one computer controls a plurality of music software processes activated on a plurality of computers connected one another via a network, and a plurality of controllers connected to the network, such that the music software processes and the controllers operate as one music system, the management software process executes: a first step of accepting, from a user, a first selection of one or more first music software processes and one or more first controllers among the plurality of music software processes and the plurality of controllers; a second step of establishing, on the network, a management session as a logical communication path for performing management communication between the management software process and each of the one or more first music software processes and between the management software process and each of the one or more first controllers, respectively, by communicating with the one or more first music software processes and the one or more first controllers; a third step of accepting, from a user, a second selection of one second music software process among the one or more first music software processes to be a control target for each controller of the one or more first controllers; and a fourth step of, regarding each controller of the one or more first controllers, releasing a current control session of the controller and establishing, on the network, a control session as a logical communication path for performing control communication between the controller and the second music software process of the second selection, by communicating with the controller and the second music software process via the management session between the management software process and the controller and via the management session between the management software process and the second music software, and wherein, according to an operation by a user to any controller of the one or more first controllers, the operated controller remotely controls the second music software process which has a control session to the operated controller, via the control session between the controller and the second music software process, wherein each management session as the logical communication path between the management software process and the first controller or the logical communication path between the management software process and the first music software process is kept established from a time point when the management session is established to a time point when the management session is released, and wherein each control session as the logical communication path between the controller and the second music software process is kept established from a time point when the control session is established to a time point when the control session is released.