Patent ID: 7395340

Claim:
An information processing method applicable to an information processing device which shares data with another device by communicating with the other device through a device having a server function, the method comprising the steps of: determining whether or not an input process is a process for entering into a system which shares the data; generating an event which contains identification information of the information processing device, and sending the event to the device having the server function, in a case where the input process is the process for entering into the system which shares the data; receiving the event from the device having the server function; determining whether or not the number of the processes which have entered into the system is smaller than a predetermined number; determining whether or not the identification information contained in the received event indicates the information processing device; disconnecting a connection path to the device having the server function in a case where the number of the processes which have entered into the system is not smaller than the predetermined number and the identification information contained in the received event indicates the information processing device; ending the received event in a case where the number of the processes which have entered into the system is not smaller than the predetermined number and the identification information contained in the received event does not indicate the information processing device; and executing the received event in a case where the number of the processes which have entered into the system is smaller than the predetermined number.