Patent ID: 6205123
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A state information managing method wherein a collecting communication unit is able to collect state information indicating respective states from one or more report communication units except the collecting communication unit to manage their state information in a communication system in which a plurality of communication units are connected to a bus to exchange mutual communication, the method comprising:an identification information setting step of setting information indicating that own unit is a unit for collecting the state information as identification information in the collecting communication unit and also setting information indicating that own unit is not the unit for collecting the state information as the identification information in respective report communication units;a report command setting step of setting a report command including a destination address having the identification information and the state information in respective report communication units; anda transmitting step of transmitting the report command from respective report communication units to the collecting communication unit based on the destination address in the report command which is set in the report command setting step.