Network system and network management method
AssigneeFaith, Inc.
InventorHajime Hirasawa
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Abstract
This invention aims at providing a network system having high flexibility and easy changeability. When software programs α, β, and γ are run in terminal computers 141 to 146, a host computer (10) builds software networks α, β, γ (FIG. A). When the software is changed from the program α to β at the terminal computer 143, the terminal, computer 143 is switched and connected to the network β. Similarly, the terminal computer 144, is switched and connected to the network β. In other words, a flexible network can be formed in accordance with the software used by the terminal computer. Further, management of an accessing party becomes easier by using a personal ID.
Claims18
A network management method for a system having a host computer and a plurality of terminal computers connected to the host computer through a communication path, wherein:
- software programs operated by the terminal computers are each associated with a software code in advance, and
- the host computer creates a network of at least some of the terminal computers operating the software programs that have the same software code;
- wherein each user has a user identification code and the host computer determines the authenticity of user identification codes sent from the terminal computers, permits access to the host computer only when the user identification codes are authentic, and creates a network, and
- wherein the terminal computers have display devices displaying only networks that are accessible based on the user identification code.
A network system having a host computer and a plurality of terminal computers connected to the host computer, wherein:
- each of the terminal computers comprises:
- reading means for reading a software code contained in a software program started in the terminal computer,
- transmitting means for transmitting, through a communication path, the software code read by the reading means, and
- display means for displaying only networks that are accessible as a selectable state on the display means based on the user identification code;
- the host computer comprises:
- receiving means for receiving the software codes transmitted from the terminal computers, and
- network forming means for creating a network by interconnecting the terminal computers that are operating software programs having the same software code among the software codes received by the receiving means, wherein the network forming means determines the authenticity of a user identification transmitted from each of the terminal computers and permits access to the host computer only when the user identification is authentic.
A host computer for creating a network between plural terminal computers connected to the host computer through a communication path, wherein;
- the terminal computers have at least one software program having software code, and
- the host computer creates the network of at least some of the terminal computers operating the software program that has the same software code;
- wherein each user has a user identification code and the host computer determines the authenticity of user identification codes sent from the terminal computers, permits access to the host computer only when the user identification codes are authentic, and creates a network, and
- wherein the terminal computers have display devices displaying only networks that are accessible as a selectable state based on the user identification code.
A program storage medium readable by a computer, storing a plurality of instructions to be executed by a host computer for managing a plurality of By terminal computers connected to the host computer through a communication path the plurality of instructions comprising:
- receiving software codes that are associated with software programs operated by the terminal computers,
- determining authenticity of user identification codes sent from the terminal computers, permitting access to the host computer only when the user identification codes are authentic, and
- creating a network of at least some of the terminal computers operating the software programs that have the same software code, wherein the host computer sends information of which networks are accessible based on the user identification code for the user to the terminal computer of the user so that the terminal computer of the user has a display device which displays only networks tat are accessible as a selectable state on the display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.