Server apparatus, communications method, program for making computer execute the communications method, and computer-readable storage medium containing the program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKotaro Yamaguchi, Kenji Maeda, Makoto Kobayashi, Jin Sunata, Yoko Murase
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Abstract
Upon receiving a request from a communications terminal, a server apparatus performs some processes and returns processing results to the communications terminal. Before returning the processing results, the server apparatus sends the communications terminal a response containing an address needed to acquire the processing results to prevent communications from being cut off due to a communications timeout which occurs, for example, if the processing on the server takes time.
Claims10
A server apparatus capable of communicating with communications terminals via a network, comprising:
- receiving means for receiving a request from any of the communications terminals;
- processing means for performing a predetermined process based on the received request;
- first sending means for sending results of the performed predetermined process to the requesting communications terminal as a first response;
- and
- second sending means for sending a second response containing an address needed to acquire the first response to the requesting communications terminal before sending the first response.
A communications method for communicating with communications terminals via a network, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a request from any of the communications terminals;
- performing a predetermined process based on the received request;
- sending the requesting communications terminal a second response containing an address needed to acquire a first response which includes results of the performed predetermined process;
- and
- sending the first response to the requesting communications terminal after the second response is transmitted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.