Patent ID: 6088738
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
A communication controlling apparatus which is connected to a plurality of upper apparatuses each for storing the same program having the same name and a plurality of lower apparatuses each for performing a desired process using the same program for controlling communications between said upper and lower apparatuses, comprising:(I) a storage unit for storing information relating to upper apparatus names, information relating to the same program names, and information relating to pseudo program names, which are synthesized of said information relating to the same program names and information relating to a specified one of said upper apparatuses, showing correspondence between the same programs and said specified one of said upper apparatuses in which the same programs are stored in such a manner that said information relating to upper apparatus names, said information relating to the same program names and said information relating to pseudo program names are correlated with each other, and(II) a control unit for controlling a communication between said specified upper apparatus and an individual lower apparatus, said control unit including(A) means for receiving information relating to said pseudo program name transmitted from an individual lower apparatus,(B) means for obtaining information relating to an objective upper apparatus name corresponding to the information relating to said pseudo program name from the information stored in said storage unit by using the received pseudo program name of said means for receiving information,(C) means for converting said received information relating to said pseudo program name into information relating to the same program name on the basis of the information stored in said storage unit by using the received pseudo program name of said means for receiving information, and(D) means for transmitting the information relating to the converted same program name to said objective upper apparatus of said means for obtaining information.