Communication control method, communication controller, telepresence robot, and recording medium storing program
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorYuri Nishikawa
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Abstract
A communication control method includes detecting whether one master terminal, and m (m is an integer not less than 1 and not more than n-1) slave terminals among n (n is an integer not less than 2) slave terminals are in a conversation state, and in response to detecting that the master terminal and the m slave terminals are in the conversation state, disconnecting the master terminal and the m slave terminals from the basic network, and forming a first sub-network, the first sub-network including the master terminal as a master and each of the m slave terminals as a slave.
Claims14
A communication control method of a communication controller that controls communication between one master terminal and n (n is an integer not less than 2) slave terminals communicatively connected to the master terminal by a basic network representing a one-to-many connection, the communication control method comprising:
- detecting whether the master terminal, and m (m is an integer not less than 1 and not more than n-1) slave terminals among the n slave terminals are in a conversation state;
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- in response to detecting that the master terminal and the m slave terminals are in the conversation state, disconnecting the master terminal and the m slave terminals from the basic network, and forming a first sub-network, the first sub-network including the master terminal as a master and each of the m slave terminals as a slave.
A communication controller that controls communication between one master terminal and n (n is an integer not less than 2) slave terminals, the n slave terminals being communicatively connected to the master terminal by a basic network representing a one-to-many connection, the communication controller comprising:
- a communicator that communicates with the master terminal and the n slave terminals;
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- a connection mode switcher that detects whether the master terminal, and m (m is an integer not less than 1 and not more than n-1) slave terminals among the n slave terminals are in a conversation state, and if the master terminal and the m slave terminals are detected to be in the conversation state, disconnects the master terminal and the m slave terminals from the basic network, and forms a first sub-network, the first sub-network including the master terminal as a master and each of the m slave terminals as a slave.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program, the program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:
- detecting whether one master terminal, and m (m is an integer not less than 1 and not more than n-1) slave terminals among n (n is an integer not less than 2) slave terminals are in a conversation state, the n slave terminals being communicatively connected to the master terminal by a basic network representing a one-to-many connection;
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- in response to detecting that the master terminal and the m slave terminals are in the conversation state, disconnecting the master terminal and the m slave terminals from the basic network, and forming a first sub-network, the first sub-network including the master terminal as a master and each of the m slave terminals as a slave.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.