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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1994
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus control system where a major terminal for inputting a user's request is connected via a communication path to at least one apparatus terminal which has an apparatus for implementing the user's request. Such apparatus control system comprises a request accepting unit for accepting the user's request written in a certain form, a storing unit for storing a correspondence table which corresponds a control procedure written in a certain rule to each request, a retrieving unit for retrieving the control procedure, a corresponding apparatus identifying unit for interpreting the retrieved control procedure to identify the apparatus, an implementation directing unit for transmitting to the identified apparatus a command which directs an implementation of the user's request, and an implementation controller for receiving the command and controlling an operation of the apparatus according to the received command.