Fujitsu Corporation

Hideaki Okada

Kenichi Yamamoto

Teruo Nakazawa

Hideki Mikamoto

In an information providing system, a condition notifying part is provided by a providing part to the user terminal with information that is in accordance with a request of the user terminal, is activated in a user terminal connecting to the information providing system via a network and notifies of a condition of the user terminal. In addition, a session management part manages session information in accordance with the condition of the user terminal notified by the condition notifying part activated in the user terminal. A session between the information providing system and the user terminal is established when the user is authenticated in accordance with authentication information from the user terminal and the session information managed by said session management part.

Information providing system and method for providing information

A method and apparatus for controlling a communication between plural host computers connected to terminal apparatus. The communication controlling apparatus includes a storage unit for storing information relating to upper apparatus names, information relating to program names and information relating to pseudo program names. The communication controlling apparatus also includes a control unit for receiving information relating to a pseudo program name transmitted from a lower apparatus, obtaining from the information stored in the storage unit information relating to an upper apparatus name corresponding to the information relating to the pseudo program name, converting the information relating to the pseudo program name into information relating to a corresponding program name on the basis of the information stored in the storage unit, and transmitting the information relating to the converted program name to an upper apparatus corresponding to the information relating to the obtained upper apparatus name, thereby controlling a communication between the upper apparatus and the lower apparatus. Even if plural host computers store programs having identical names, the terminal apparatus can be connected to a desired host computer, whereby a service to the users may be improved.

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Maebashi, Japan

Hideaki Okada