Patent ID: 6925500

Claim:
An information processing device for transmitting and receiving information to and from electronic equipment through a network comprising: type information obtaining means for obtaining type information of said electronic equipment; operation state value obtaining means for obtaining an operation state value of said electronic equipment on the basis of said type information obtained by said type information obtaining means; reservation determining means for determining the presence or absence of reservation rights relative to said electronic equipment; change information storing means for storing change frequency within a fixed time of the operation state value of said electronic equipment obtained by said operation state value obtaining means; control enablement/disablement judging means for judging enablement/disablement of control of said electronic equipment, wherein said control enablement/disablement judging means judges enablement/disablement of control of said electronic equipment on the basis of the presence or absence of reservation rights of said electronic equipment determined by said reservation determining means, and when said reservation determining means determines the absence of reservation rights of said electronic equipment, said control enablement/disablement judging means additionally judges enablement/disablement of control of said electronic equipment on the basis of the change frequency information stored by said change information storing means, wherein when the type information of said electronic equipment obtained by said type information obtaining means is recording and/or reproducing equipment, said control enablement/disablement judging means judges enablement/disablement of control of said electronic equipment on the basis of the change frequency stored by said change information storing means; device controlling means for controlling electronic equipment connected with said network, wherein when control enablement is judged by said control enablement/disablement judging means, said device controlling means executes controlling said electronic equipment; and alarm signal producing means for producing a warning signal when control disablement is judged by said control enablement/disablement judging means to display said warning signal.