Patent ID: 6567848
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
A method of communicating between a first information terminal and a second information terminal, said method comprising the steps of;(a) receiving, at one of a plurality of servers managed by a dispatcher, a first request sent to an address of a cluster of the dispatcher from said first information terminal, (b) allocating information which can specify said first information terminal in said one of the plurality of servers, (c) receiving a second request from said first information terminal, requesting connection to a second information terminal, (d) storing said information which can specify said first information terminal and information which can specify said one of the plurality of servers in correlation to each other, (e) specifying a second information terminal to be connected to said one of the plurality of servers, (f) in response to step (e), accessing to said one of the plurality of servers from said second information terminal based on the information specifying said one of the plurality of servers which were stored in the step (d), and (g) communicating between said first information terminal and said second information terminal.