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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2004
Yoshikatsu Yoshino, Yokohama, JP;
Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hiratsuka, JP;
Chiyo Akamatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Shinichiro Fukushima, Yokohama, JP;
Hidefumi Goto, Yokosuka, JP;
Yoshikatsu Yoshino, Yokohama, JP;
Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hiratsuka, JP;
Chiyo Akamatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Shinichiro Fukushima, Yokohama, JP;
Hidefumi Goto, Yokosuka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A device including a self-information memory which stores function data for other devices to operate the device and device name data. Upon receiving a request from another device for the device name or function data, the device sends the data stored in the self-information memory. When function data is thereafter received, the device executes a function indicated by the data. When plural devices are connected to each other via a network, device acting as a mater device, includes a connected device memory which stores device name data of all connected device and a communication pair memory which stores function data of the communication partner.
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