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Title:
INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPERATING METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION REPEATING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3519657
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To handle a portable device with a new communication protocol appearing after system installation without changing an existent communication repeating device.
SOLUTION: A host device 10 or the communication repeating device 20 has a means for deciding the communication protocol of a portable device 30 according to reply information from the portable device 30 responding to polling. The communication repeating device 20 has a means for converting a command from the host device 10 to a specific portable device 30 into a communication protocol unique to the portable device 30, a means for transmitting part or the whole of the message of the command from the host device 10 to an arbitrary portable device 30 to the portable device 30 as it is, and a means for transmitting reply information from the individual portable devices 30 to the host device 10 as its is. The host device 10 relays communication data to the communication repeating device 20 as they are if the portable device 30 is not supported by the communication repeating device 20 and the host device 10 processes the communication protocol.


Inventors:
Yoshino, Ryozo
Tsunoda, Kenichi
Ikezawa, Shinji
Date, Shigeru
Dobashi, Hisanori
Nishimura, Shinji
Yamaguchi, Akira
Sonehara, Toshinori
Takiguchi, Masahiro
Takahashi, Kiyoshi
Sato, Hiromi
Miura, Toru
Application Number:
JP2000033037A
Publication Date:
April 19, 2004
Filing Date:
February 10, 2000
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Assignee:
HITACHI LTD
NIPPON TELEGR & TELEPH CORP <NTT>
DENSO CORP
TOKIN CORP
International Classes:
G06K17/00; G06F3/08; H04L29/10; (IPC1-7): H04L29/10; G06F3/08; G06K17/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
筒井 大和