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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 22', 'art 22', 'art 22', 'art 18', 'art 18', 'art 22', 'art 22', 'Application No. 03', 'Application No. 03', 'application No. 03256828', 'Application No. 2002', 'Application No. 2002']

Patent US7756474 - Communication device, and method and computer program for information ... - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign in<nobr>Advanced Patent Search</nobr>PatentsA communication device relates a plurality of identification information to specifying information included in the identification information and manages them, and thereby enhances easiness of identifying and specifying of a device of the other party and usability of a connection with the device of the...http://www.google.com/patents/US7756474?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7756474 - Communication device, and method and computer program for information processing thereofAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS7756474 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 10/694,989Publication dateJul 13, 2010Filing dateOct 29, 2003Priority dateOct 29, 2002Fee statusPaidAlso published asEP1416703A2, EP1416703A3, EP1416703B1, US7801485, US20040157589, US20070167137Publication number10694989, 694989, US 7756474 B2, US 7756474B2, US-B2-7756474, US7756474 B2, US7756474B2InventorsHideaki Watanabe, Naoyuki InoueOriginal AssigneeFujitsu LimitedExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (21), Non-Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (4), Classifications (30), Legal Events (3) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetCommunication device, and method and computer program for information processing thereofUS 7756474 B2Abstract A communication device relates a plurality of identification information to specifying information included in the identification information and manages them, and thereby enhances easiness of identifying and specifying of a device of the other party and usability of a connection with the device of the other party. The communication device has an identification information reception part (a radio transmission/reception part, a baseband part and a control part), a storage part (a data base part) and an information processing part (a control part). The identification information reception part receives the pieces of identification information concerning the device of the other party to be connected, and in the storage part the pieces of identification information which are received are stored. The information processing part stores the pieces of identification information, which are received, in the storage part, and retrieves the identification information from the storage part by receiving input of the specifying information out of the pieces of identification information, and relates a result of that retrieval to the specifying information and outputs them, or makes that output possible. By this, it is possible to use the pieces of identification information related to the specifying information for specifying of the device of the other party and connection with it.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, the present invention relates to a communication device by radio, and an object of the present invention is to make it easy to identify and specify a device of the other party by relating a plurality of pieces of identification information to specifying information included in the pieces of identification information and managing them.
The communication device, in order to specify the device of the other party, can use a plurality of pieces of identification information, for example, proper information representative of a communication device, human information such as an individual or a juridical person possessing that device, and so on. These pieces of identification information can be obtained by transmission and reception with the device of the other party by radio. However, the acquisition of the identification information is not limited to this. As a different manner except a device of the other party, the identification information may also be acquired by receiving a plurality of pieces of identification information, concerning a device of the other party, which is input from an input operation part. Thereupon, the storage part which stores these pieces of identification information is provided, and the information processing part stores the pieces of identification information, which are received, in the storage part. At this time, the pieces of identification information are stored so that the rest of the pieces of identification information except the specifying information is related to the specifying information out of the pieces of identification information. Here, �relating the specifying information out of the pieces of identification information to the rest of the pieces of identification information� is to link the specifying information to the identification information, for example, by means of a relation between the human information representative of an owner or a manager of a device of the other party and the proper information representative of that device of the other party.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows a communication device representative of an embodiment of a communication device, an information processing method thereof and an information processing program thereof of the present invention. This communication device can be mounted in various kinds of apparatuses, such as an information apparatus like a digital camera and a printer, and an AV (Audio Video) apparatus, in addition to a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, PHS, PDA and a mobile PC.
A definition of a low level communication
A service discovery function (Discovery of
profile information to which each device
A cordless telephone function
A transceiver function
An emulation function equivalent to RS232C
A radio earphone and mic function.
Monoral�Quality for talking(for non-Audio)
Utilizing a mobile phone and so on as a
Utilizing the mobile phone and so on as a
A connection between a LAN access point
A data communication function equivalent
to OBEX
Data exchange of the v format, Card
Transfer of ordinary data through a file
A synchronization function of
Phonebook�Schedule�mail�memo
Positioning(Location identification)
Networking (LAN, Ad hoc, . . . )
Rendering (Printing, Speaker, . . . )
Capturing (Scanner, Microphone, . . . )
Object Transfer (v-Inbox, v-Folder, . . . )
Audio (Speaker, Microphone, Headset service, . . . )
Telephony(Cordless telephony, Modem, Headset service, . . . )
Information (WEB-server, WAP-server, . . . )
Computer(desktop, notebook, PDA,
Phone(cellular, cordless, payphone, modem, . . . )
LAN/Network Access Point
Audio/Video (headset, speaker, stereo, video
Peripheral(mouse, joystick, keyboards, . . . )
Imaging(printing, scanner, camera, display, . . . )
Server-class computer
Handheld PC/PDA (clam shell)
Palm sized PC/PDA
Wearable computer (Watch sized)
Wired modem or voice gateway
The inquiry response message is transmitted with a packet data, and this packet data, for example, is transmitted with FHS packet (Frequency Hopping Sequence packet) format. The inquiry response message includes information of an Bluetooth device address, CoD and so on of the side of the communication terminals 2B which responds. In the communication terminal 2A of the master side, terminal information of a terminal candidate able to communicate, which is obtained by the inquiry, is displayed on the information presenting part 22 serving as a UI (User Interface) and is informed a user. On a screen of the information presenting part 22, for example, a display screen shown in FIG. 5 is displayed, and one or plural device names, device addresses, CoDs and so on obtained by a result of the inquiry are displayed. In FIG. 5, displays 30,32 and 34 are the CoDs, displays 36, 38 and 40 are the device addresses, and displays 42, 44 and 46 are icon displays corresponding to the CoDs. A user selects a device of the other party, with which the user wants to communicate, from a retrieved result ( ) displayed in the screen of the terminal, and starts a connection process.
Like this, on the occasion of transmitting and receiving data by utilizing Bluetooth, the system designates a person from the address book DB, and can perform the connecting operation thence. Once the Bluetooth device address which is the identification information is stored in the address book DB, the connection process can be performed by utilizing that identification information. In addition to the connection process, if a device address is recorded on the occasion of exchanging a schedule (vCalender) and/or memo (vNote) data and so on through Bluetooth, this identification information can be utilized on the occasion of performing display of each data in each application as well. For example, by retrieving a user name from the device address which is identification information, �from whom was that data received?� or �to whom was that data transmitted before?� can be displayed on UI of the communication terminal 2, namely the information presenting part 22.
By the way, the communication terminal 2 having Bluetooth also records the corresponding profile information in the address book DB of the data base part 18 at the same time, and may be set so that a user can designate a profile used when communicating with another communication terminal X. according to this, in each profile of Bluetooth, the two kinds of a side (a client) requiring a connection and a side (a server) required a connection are to exist. FIG. 10 is a plurality of pieces of identification information stored in the data base part 18, and shows profile information of the pieces of identification information displayed on the information presenting part 22. On the information presenting part 22, selection displays 76 and 78 able to designate a profile used for a connection are displayed, in addition to the display 72 showing the device name and the display 74 showing the list of CoD of Bluetooth mounted in the communication terminal X which is a device of the other party. Further, in FIG. 10, �C� shows a client, and �S� shows a server. The system is constituted so that the permission and designation of a connection can be performed in relation to each of client and server.
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