System using electronic devices connected to network

Abstract

Personal computers and other electronic devices that are connected by a network are installed in each individual office. An employee is enabled to use each individual electronic device by performing an authentication process using authentication information in an information recording medium (IC card) that is issued as an employee ID card. In the information recording medium is recorded a code Cthat indicates an electronic device that is to be a report target (for example, the employee's own personal computerinstalled in a Chiba Branch). When this employee goes to a Tokyo Headquarters on business and performs the authentication process using the information recording medium in order to use an electronic device, the code Cis read by the electronic device, a location information, 'Tokyo Headquarters,' which indicates the employee's current location, is transmitted via the network to the electronic devicethat is the report target, and the current location (the installation location of the electronic device) is displayed on a screen of the electronic device. Tasks of self-declaring destinations are made unnecessary and detailed destination displays are enabled.