Patent ID: 6042476
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A communications control system for conducting communications between a plurality of communications control devices comprising:a master communications control device which has the right to determine environmental conditions affecting the operations of all the communications control devices jointly, in preference to the other communications control devices, in accordance with the actions of a user operating this master communications control device, and which displays the environmental conditions transmitted by the other communications control devices to the user for his or her information; anda slave communications control device, which communicates with said master communications control device, transmits environmental conditions reflecting the individual preferences of the user operating that slave communications control device in accordance with that user's actions, to the master communications control device, and sets the environmental conditions determined by said master communications control device as its own environmental conditions, regardless of whether or not the environmental conditions determined by the master communications control device in accordance with the actions of its user coincide with the environmental conditions reflecting the individual preferences of the user operating this slave communications control device.