Patent ID: 7761509
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A program product stored on a recordable medium for linking operations between multiple connected devices connected to each other via a network, wherein the program product is installed in a connected device of the multiple connected devices, and the connected device is a linked device, wherein the program product comprises: program code for setting a state of the linked device for execution of linked operations between the connected devices, a state change representing an occurrence of an event at an external device in the network that is a condition for execution of the linked operations, and an operation of the linked device to be executed upon the occurrence of the event at the external device; program code for storing settings set by the program code for setting; program code for sending, to the external device, a request for registration of necessity to notify the linked device of occurrence of an event when the event occurs at the external device; program code for, upon receipt of a notification of occurrence of an event from the external device, determining whether an operation of the linked device that corresponds to a current state of the linked device and to the notified event is stored or not; and program code for, when it is found as a result of the determination that the corresponding operation of the linked device is stored, executing the stored operation; wherein the program code for setting is program code for further setting the external device at which the event occurs, wherein the multiple connected devices include a telephone, a television receiver, and an HDD recorder, wherein the external device at which the event occurs is the telephone and the event is a call at the telephone, wherein the linked device is the television receiver, wherein when the call at the telephone lasts more than a given time, the television receiver makes the HDD recorder start recording, and wherein when the recording on the HDD recorder has been already started at the end of the call at the telephone, the television receiver prompts the user to start chasing playback.