Patent ID: 7412292
Filing Date: 2008-08-12
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A remote control apparatus comprising a controlled appliance and a server being connected via communication means, said controlled appliance comprising: a communication control part that carries out communication, a notice receiving part that receives a notice command indicating that data has arrived at said server, an appliance unique data management part that manages appliance unique data being unique to each controlled appliance, a data acquisition request transmission part that transmits a data acquisition request to said server on the basis of the notice command received by said notice receiving part, a data receiving part that receives data from said server, a data storage control part that controls the data storage destination of the data received by said data receiving part, and a data storage part that stores the data transmitted from said data storage control part, and said server comprising: a communication control part that carries out communication, a data filing part that saves and stores data, a data management part that manages stored data, an appliance management part that stores appliance unique data for identifying said controlled appliance, a notification part that notifies said controlled appliance that data is present in said data filing part, and a data transmission part that receives an acquisition request command from said controlled appliance and transmits the data stored in said data filing part to said controlled appliance, wherein when data is stored in the data filing part of said server, a notice command indicating data acquisition is transmitted to said controlled appliance, the controlled appliance having received the notice command transmits an acquisition request to said server, and the data stored in the data filing part of said server is received and stored in said data storage part.