Patent ID: 7079822
Filing Date: 2006-07-18
Classification: G06F,H04W

Abstract:
1. A multi-channel management apparatus, which is connected to a plurality of terminals via a network and independently communicates with each of the terminals and is applied to a multi-channel input system for making cordless connection between the plurality of terminals and a plurality of input apparatuses corresponding to these terminals based on a multi-channel system, the multi-channel management apparatus comprising: a management unit which manages a setting status of each channel in the multi-channel input system by providing a channel-setting table showing a relationship between the plurality of terminals and a plurality of channels that can be utilized in the multi-channel input system; and a notification unit which notifies the setting status to a particular one of the terminals according to a request from the particular terminal, wherein the multi-channel management apparatus further comprises an interference channel candidate extraction unit, which selects a channel as a candidate interference channel having a possibility of the occurrence of interference at the time of updating a set channel, and notifies the interference channel to a terminal, when this channel other than the set channel has a data reception during a period while the set channel set at the terminal has no data reception.