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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2007
Applicants:

Akihiko Kinoshita, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Kanao, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroyuki Chiba, Kanagawa, JP;

Tsuyoshi Honma, Chiba, JP;

Hirofumi Kouda, Saitama, JP;

Inventors:

Akihiko Kinoshita, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Kanao, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroyuki Chiba, Kanagawa, JP;

Tsuyoshi Honma, Chiba, JP;

Hirofumi Kouda, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06Q 10/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A network system is disclosed. The system includes: a terminal device; a network appliance to be controlled by the terminal device; a service server that provides a service for controlling the network appliance over a network to the terminal device; and an access management server that receives/transmits information for accessing the network appliance over the network. The network appliance has a message transmitting section, and the access management server has: a storage section and an event message transmission control section.


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