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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2014
Atsushi Nakafuji, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinaga Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Nakafuji, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinaga Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A management device includes a status management part managing connection statuses of terminals; a group management part managing a group associated with the terminals, and which manages a group status of the group depending on the connection statuses of the terminals associated with the group, the group management part setting the group status so that the group status represents that the group is ready to connect; a transmission part transmitting to a first terminal which is not in the group the group status representing that the group is ready to connect; and responding to a request to connect to the group from the first terminal, an establishment part, establishing a session to connect the first terminal to a second terminal which is in the group, wherein the connection status of the second terminal represents that the second terminal is ready to connect to other terminals.