Patent ID: 6886039

Claim:
An adaptive communication method for notifying information to a person to be notified of the information, which relates to a function of any of a plurality of equipment forming a distributed system of which each of the plurality of equipment is interconnected over a transmission medium and includes one or more arithmetic units, said adaptive communication method comprising the steps of: a first step in which any of the plurality of equipment acquires environmental information indicating an environment in which the plurality of equipment is installed before the time when the information of the function is informed to the person; a second step in which any of the plurality of equipment determines a notification method notifying the information to be notified to the person according to the environment information acquired by the first step and the contents of information to be notified before the time at when the information of the function is informed to the person; and a third step in which one of the plurality of equipment notifies the information to be notified to the person according to the notification method determined by the second step, wherein the environment information comprises an attention level at which the person is attracted attention and an attention objection, and wherein, when the attention level of the attention object is low, a control instruction is set to make the attention level of the attention object higher than the low attention level, as a part of the notification method.