Patent ID: 7328009
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A server in a first network compliant with a protocol, the server comprising: a first information processing equipment including a representative function and an interface having an address indicating a group of interfaces; a second information processing equipment without the representative function, wherein the first information processing equipment further includes a collecting device configured to collect attribute and load information from the second information processing equipment, wherein the second information processing equipment includes a storing device configured to store information corresponding to an address acquired by terminal equipment in a second network compliant with the protocol and to an address assigned to terminal equipment in the first network, wherein the first information processing equipment further includes a listing device configured to generate list information from the attribute and load information collected from the second information processing equipment and a sending device configured to send the list information the terminal equipment when the server receives a message addressed to the address indicating the group of interfaces.