Patent ID: 9124501
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A server device including a processor and a program storage device tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the processor to configure the server device to provide a client device with location information indicating one or more data storage locations of one or more sets of information about one or more datasets, the one or more sets of information about the one or more datasets being provided by one or more network devices and described in a structured format, the server device including a module comprising: a first software layer including plural kinds of applications, each kind of application amongst the plural kinds of applications having and performing a function different from a function of the others of the plural kinds of applications, and a second software layer including plural kinds of service software used in common for the functions of the plural kinds of applications and controls hardware of the server device to provide said each kind of application amongst the plural kinds of applications with the different function; a data storage location acquiring unit to acquire the location information indicating the data storage locations of the sets of information about the datasets from the corresponding network devices via the second software layer; a data storage location management unit to manage the data storage locations of the sets of information about the datasets acquired from the network devices; a data storage location providing unit to provide the client device with the acquired location information indicating the data storage locations of the sets of information about the datasets via the second software layer, wherein the data storage location providing unit describes the data storage location of the set of information about the dataset in a subject of a mail to provide the client device with the data storage location of the set of information about the dataset.