Patent ID: 8732292
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A network system comprising at least one equipment, a client terminal device, and a server connected between said equipment and said client terminal device via a network, and configured such that said client terminal device requests an execution of a server-side object to said server, and then said server requests an execution of an equipment-side object to said equipment, the execution request of said server-side object from said client terminal device is performed by use of a first identifier assigned to said server-side object, and the execution request of said equipment-side object from said server is performed by use of a second identifier assigned to said equipment-side object, said second identifier comprises a unique identifier of said equipment-side object and an interface identifier defined according to a function of said equipment, which executes said equipment-side object according to the execution request of said server-side object using said first identifier from said client terminal device, said server has a service provision function portion, a service request function portion, and an identifier setting portion configured to set a correspondence relation between said first identifier and said second identifier, said correspondence relation between said first identifier and at least one of said unique identifier and said interface identifier of said second identifier is set in said identifier setting portion, said service provision function portion has said server-side object and is configured to, upon receiving the execution request of said server-side object using said first identifier from said client terminal device, execute said server-side object corresponding to said first identifier, said service request function portion is configured to, when said server-side object is executed, perform the execution request of said equipment-side object using said second identifier including said unique identifier of said equipment-side object or said interface identifier corresponding to said first identifier to said equipment via the network with reference to said correspondence relation set by said identifier setting portion, said equipment has said equipment-side object, and is configured to, when the information processing portion receives said execution request of said equipment-side object using said second identifier, execute said equipment-side object corresponding to said second identifier, and said identifier setting portion is configured such that the number of said second identifier of said equipment-side object associated with said first identifier of said server-side object is increased or decreased in response to an increase or decrease in the number of services provided when said equipment executes said equipment-side object according to the execution request of said server-side object from said client terminal device.