Network and network terminal
AssigneeTakaoka Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsHidekazu Hagiwara, Kenji Tatsuo
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Abstract
A network linking together one or more servers and a plurality of network terminals which function on a basic software set downloaded from a server and are uses for remotely operating the application software stored in the servers, configured so that a switch-off command can be sent from a server to all network terminal simultaneously and each of said network terminals, and, in response to the switch-off command, checks whether the basic software set being used on the network terminal requires disconnection from the corresponding server prior to switch-off in order to prevent problems caused by switch-off and then switches off the power after disconnection if the basic software set requires disconnection, or otherwise switches off the power immediately without disconnection.
Claims5
A network system comprising:
- at least one server having basic and application softwares,
- a network connected to the at least one server,
- a plurality of network terminals connected to the at least one server through the network, each of said network terminals functioning on the basic software downloaded from the server and operating the application software stored in the server,
- means for sending a switch-off command to the network terminals through the network, said means being installed in the at least one server,
- determining means installed in each of the network terminals for determining whether the basic software running on the network terminal requires the network terminal to be disconnected from the server before switching off a power of each of the network terminals, and
- switching off means electrically connected to the determining means for switching off the power of the network terminal and disconnecting the network terminal from the server upon receiving the switch-off command, said switching off means switching off the power of the network terminal after disconnecting the network terminal from the server when the determining means determines that the basic software requires the network terminal to be disconnected from the server before the power of the network terminal is switched off, said switching off means switching off the power of the network terminal without disconnecting the network terminal from the server when the determining means determines that the basic software does not require the network terminal to be disconnected from the server before the power of the network terminal is switched off.
A network terminal connected to a server via a network for running a basic software, comprising:
- determining means for determining whether the basic software running on the network terminal requires the network terminal to be disconnected from the server prior to switching off a power of the network terminal, and
- switching off means electrically connected to the determining means for switching off the power of the network terminal and disconnecting the network terminal from the server upon receiving a switch-off command from the server, said switching off means switching off the power of the network terminal after disconnecting the network terminal from the server when the determining means determines that the basic software requires the network terminal to be disconnected from the server before the power of the network terminal is switched off, said switching off means switching off the power of the network terminal without disconnecting the network terminal from the server when the determining means determines that the basic software does not require the network terminal to be disconnected from the server before the power of the network terminal is switched off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.