Patent ID: 6182171
Filing Date: 2001-01-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
An information communication system, comprising:a function serving electronic-equipment which is so arranged and constructed as to be enabled to serve another electronic equipment with at least one function that the function serving electronic equipment has;a making-use-of function electronic equipment which is so arranged and constructed as to be enabled to make use of at least one function that another electronic equipment has;a common communication bus to which the function serving electronic equipment and the making-use-of function are enabled to be connected; andan equipment managing apparatus which is enabled to be connected to the common communication bus and including a storage block for storing a function serving information representing the function which the function serving electronic equipment is enabled to serve and a making-use-of function information representing the function of which the making-use-of function electronic equipment is enabled to make use, and a comparing block for comparing the function serving information stored in the storage block with the making-use-of function information stored in the storage block so as to determine whether both contents of the function serving information and the making-use-of function information are coincident with each other, the equipment managing apparatus allowing the making-use-of function electronic equipment to make use of the function which the function serving electronic equipment is enabled to serve when determining that both contents of the function serving information and the making-use-of function information are coincident with each other.