# US 11,650,572 B2 · Remote management system, control device, server, method, and recording medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,650,572 B2 - Document ID: US11650572B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/469,798 - Filed: 2017-12-13 - Published: 2019-12-19 - Granted: 2023-05-16 - Earliest claimed: 2016-12-21 - Assignees: NEC Corporation - Applicants: NEC Corporation - Inventors: Kazuteru Watanabe - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11650572B2 ## CPC - G05B 19/4155: characterised by program execution, i.e. part program or machine function execution, e.g. selection of a program - G08C 17/00: Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link - H04B 3/36: Repeater circuits (H04B3/58 takes precedence) - H04B 7/14: Relay systems - H04H 60/50: of broadcast or relay stations - H04L 12/66: Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways - H04Q 9/00: Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom - G05B 2219/23051: Remote control, enter program remote, detachable programmer - H04Q 2209/10: using a centralized architecture - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - G08C: TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS (fluid pressure transmitting systems F15B; mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member into a different variable G01D5/00; mechanical control systems G05G) - H04B: TRANSMISSION - H04H: BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication H04J; pictorial communication aspects of broadcast systems H04N) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04Q: SELECTING (switches, relays, selectors H01H; wireless communication networks H04W) ## Abstract A remote management system includes: a facility information receiver that receives facility information representing a facility within a space; a facility information storage that stores the facility information; a use information receiver that receives use information representing a facility to be operated during a use period of the space among facilities represented by the facility information; a use information storage that stores the use information; a relay that relays communication between the facility within the space and an outside of the space; and a facility controller that controls the facility to operate or not to operate via the relay, based on the facility information and the use information. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A remote management system comprising: a facility information receiver that receives facility information representing a facility within a space; a facility information storage that stores the facility information; a use information receiver that receives use information representing a facility to be operated during a use period of the space among facilities represented by the facility information; a use information storage that stores the use information; a relay that relays communication between the facility within the space and an outside of the space; and a facility controller that controls the facility to operate or not to operate via the relay, based on the facility information and the use information, wherein the facility controller and the relay are coupled to a first closed area network, the relay performs the relaying via a virtual circuit for virtually and directly coupling the first closed area network, and a second closed area network to which the facility is coupled within the space, and the facility controller controls the facility to operate or not to operate within a same closed area network configured by virtually and directly coupling the first and second closed area networks. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The remote management system according to claim 1, further comprising additional service provider provides an additional service being a function addable to the facility, wherein the facility controller further controls the additional service provider to provide the additional service to be added to the facility to be operated. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The remote management system according to claim 2, wherein the facility information receiver receives the facility information further including information representing the additional service to be added at a time when the facility is operated, and the facility controller controls the additional service provider to provide the additional service, based on the facility information. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The remote management system according to claim 2, wherein the use information receiver receives the use information further including information representing the additional service to be added to the facility to be operated during the use period, and the facility controller controls the additional service provider to provide the additional service, based on the use information. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The remote management system according to claim 1, further comprising a monitor that determines whether a location of the facility is normal, based on a communication status with the facility as a monitor target via the relay. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The remote management system according to claim 5, wherein the facility information receiver receives the facility information further including information indicating whether the facility is the monitor target. ### Claim 7 A method comprising, by a computer device: acquiring and storing facility information representing a facility within a space; acquiring and storing use information representing a facility to be operated during a use period of the space among facilities represented by the facility information; and controlling the facility to operate or not to operate, based on the facility information and the use information, via a relay that relays communication between the facility within the space and an outside of the space, wherein the controlling the facility is performed by a facility controller and the facility controller and the relay are coupled to a first closed area network, the relay performs the relaying via a virtual circuit for virtually and directly coupling the first closed area network, and a second closed area network to which the facility is coupled within the space, and the facility controller controls the facility to operate or not to operate within a same closed area network configured by virtually and directly coupling the first and second closed area networks. ### Claim 8 A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a program causing a computer device to execute acquiring facility information representing a facility within a space, and use information representing a facility to be operated during a use period of the space among facilities represented by the facility information, and controlling, based on the facility information and the use information, the facility to operate or not to operate, via relay that relays communication between the facility within the space and an outside of the space, wherein the controlling the facility is performed by a facility controller and the facility controller and the relay are coupled to a first closed area network, the relay performs the relaying via a virtual circuit for virtually and directly coupling the first closed area network, and a second closed area network to which the facility is coupled within the space, and the facility controller controls the facility to operate or not to operate within a same closed area network configured by virtually and directly coupling the first and second closed area networks.