Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nec Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Haruo Hinode

Hiroshi Masuda

Yoichi Masuda

Naoki Endo

Hisao Kumai

Ken Satoh

Morio Hirahara

Takayuki Amatsu

Takeshi Suetsugu

Shoji Mochizuki

Touru Sugayama

Junji Hiraide

A first device according to one embodiment includes, but is not limited to, receiver circuitry, determinator circuitry, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured and/or programmed to receive from a second device, first information for controlling a third device. The determinator circuitry is configured and/or programmed to determine whether or not the first information is to be transmitted to the third device, based on whether or not the first information is associated with second information stored in the first device. The second information includes at least a first operation command for controlling a first operation of the third device. The transmitter circuitry is configured and/or programmed to, in a case that the first information is determined to be transmitted to the third device, transmit the first information to the third device.

Device, method, and system for managing device control

Data falsification or the like is prevented and security is enhanced in an IC tag. The IC tag consists of three portions: separable portions Aand A, and a non-separable portion B (tag main body). The portions A, A, and B include IC, IC, and IC, and antenna, antenna, and antenna, respectively, the antennas being an interface between the tag and the outside (a reader/writer device for the exchange of data with the tag). IC() and IC() are connected by a signal line Lfor signal transmission between IC() and IC(). IC() and IC() are connected by a signal line Lfor signal transmission between IC() and IC(). Upon separation of Afrom the tag main body, the signal line Lis also severed. Similarly, upon separation of Afrom the tag main body, the signal line Lis severed. Each time the separable portions are separated in the order of Ato A, the separation of Aor Ais detected, and the function of the tag is changed from the first function to the third function sequentially.

IC tag whose function can be changed upon separation

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Sakai, Japan

Haruo Hinode