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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
May. 20, 2016
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Toru Ueda, Sakai, JP;
Masahiro Chiba, Sakai, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In the present disclosure, an appropriate control-target device is caused to carry out an operation without the control-target device being designated. A linking system () includes: a linking server (); a device controlling server (); one or more devices (); and an information providing server (). In a case where the device controlling server () has received from the linking server () an instruction for carrying out an operation in accordance with a linking rule, the device controlling server transmits () a command to carry out the operation to at least one device, the at least one device having been identified by the device controlling server () from among the one or more devices () in accordance with a user specified in the linking rule. The information providing server () transmits, to the linking server (), notification of a trigger for the operation.