Repeater, mobile radio communication system, fault notification method for said repeater or said mobile radio communication system, and recording medium having, recorded thereon, fault notification program for said repeater or said mobile radio communication system

A repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said repeater comprising:

• detection means for periodically detecting an implementation status indicating whether or not services realized by data held in the contents servers are in a providable or acquisitive state;
• first storage means for holding information about the implementation status of the services detected by the detection means;
• and
• service menu preparation means which periodically performs the search of the first storage means and, when a service, in a state such that the service cannot be acquired or provided, has been detected, periodically prepares a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided, wherein
• upon a request from a portable terminal for the acquisition of a service provided by a contents server, the service menu prepared by the service menu preparation means is sent to the portable terminal.

A repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing service are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said repeater comprising:

• detection means for periodically detecting the status of operation of the contents servers present on the network;
• first storage means for holding information about the status of operation of the contents servers detected by the detection means;
• service menu preparation means which performs the search of the first storage means and, when an inactive contents server has been detected, prepares a service menu which can recognize services provided by active contents servers and a status of inactive contents servers;
• time-counting means for counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the service menu preparation means to the portable terminals;
• and
• push distribution means for push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting means.

A repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said repeater comprising:

• detection means for detecting an implementation status indicating whether or not services realized by data held in the contents servers are in a providable or acquisitive state;
• first storage means for holding information about the implementation status of the services detected by the detection means;
• service menu preparation means which performs the search of the first storage means and, when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected, prepares a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided;
• time-counting means for counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the service menu preparation means to the portable terminals;
• and
• push distribution means for push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting means.

A repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said repeater comprising:

• detection means for periodically detecting an implementation status indicating whether or not services realized by data held in the contents server are in a providable or acquisitive state;
• first storage means for holding information about the implementation status of the services detected by the detection means;
• service menu preparation means which periodically performs the search of the first storage means and, when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected, periodically prepares a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided;
• and
• control means for controlling each means in such a manner that, upon a request for the acquisition of a service, provided by the contents server, from the portable terminal, sends the service menu prepared by the service menu preparation means to the portable terminal, wherein
• upon the receipt of a request from the portable terminal for access, wherein the service provided by the contents server has been designated, the control means refers to the first storage means to detect the implementation status of the designated service and, when the designated service is not in a providable or acquisitive state, sends a service menu, which summarizes the implementation status of other services belonging to the same genre as the designated service, to the portable terminal which has requested the access.

A mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and store information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, wherein
• the contents server has notification means for periodically checking whether a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive and for notifying the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service, and
• the repeater comprises receive means for receiving information notified by the notification means,
• first storage means for holding information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive means, and
• service menu preparation means which periodically performs the search of the first storage means and, when a service not in a providable state has been detected, prepares a service menu which can recognize providable services and a status of the services that cannot be provided, wherein
• upon a request from the portable terminal for the acquisition of a service provided by a contents server, the service menu prepared by the service menu preparation means is sent to the portable terminal.

A mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and stores information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, wherein
• the contents server has notification means that, when a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive, notifies the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service, and
• the repeater comprises receive means for receiving information notified by the notification means,
• first storage means for holding information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive means, and
• service menu preparation means which performs the search of the first storage means and, when a service not in a providable state has been detected, prepares a service menu which can recognize providable services and a status of the services that cannot be provided,
• time-counting means for counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the service menu preparation means to the portable terminals, and
• push distribution means for push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting means.

A mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and store information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, wherein
• the contents server has notification means for periodically checking whether a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive and for notifying the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service, and
• the repeater comprises receive means for receiving information notified by the notification means,
• first storage means for holding information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive means,
• service menu preparation means which periodically performs the search of the first storage means and, when a service not in a providable state, has been detected, periodically prepares a service menu which can recognize providable services and a status of the services that cannot be provided, and
• control means for controlling each means in such a manner that, upon a request for the acquisition of a service, provided by the contents server, from the portable terminal, sends the service menu prepared by the service menu preparation means to the portable terminal, wherein
• upon the receipt of a request from the portable terminal for access, wherein the service provided by the contents server has been designated, the control means refers to the first storage means to detect the implementation status of the designated service and, when the designated service is not in a providable state, sends a service menu, which summarizes the implementation status of other services belonging to the same genre as the designated service, to the portable terminal which has requested the access.

A fault notification method for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said method comprising the steps of:

• periodically detecting the status of operation of the contents servers present on the network (detection step);
• storing in first storage means information about the status of operation of the contents servers detected by the detection step (store step);
• searching the first storage means for the status of operation of the contents servers (search step);
• when an inactive contents server has been detected by the search step, preparing a service menu which can recognize services provided by active contents servers (first service menu preparation step) and a status of inactive contents servers;
• and
• upon a request from a portable terminal for the acquisition of a service provided by a contents server, sending the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation step to the portable terminal (send step).

A fault notification method for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said method comprising the steps of:

• periodically detecting an implementation status indicating whether or not services realized by data held in the contents servers are in a providable or acquisitive state (detection step);
• storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of the services detected by the detection step (store step);
• periodically searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service (search step);
• when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected by the search step, periodically preparing a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services (first service menu preparation step) and a status of the services that cannot be provided;
• and
• upon a request from a portable terminal for the acquisition of a service provided by a contents server, sending the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation step to the portable terminal (send step).

A fault notification method for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said method comprising the steps of:

• periodically detecting the status of operation of the contents servers present on the network (detection step);
• storing in first storage means information about the status of operation of the contents servers detected by the detection step (store step);
• searching the first storage means for the status of operation of the contents servers (search step);
• when an inactive contents server has been detected by the search step, preparing a service menu which can recognize services provided by active contents servers (first service menu preparation step) and a status of inactive contents servers;
• counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation step to the portable terminals (time-counting step);
• and
• push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting step (push distribution step).

A fault notification method for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said method comprising the steps of:

• detecting whether or not services realized by data held in the contents servers are in a providable or acquisitive state (detection step);
• storing in first storage means information about the status of the services detected by the detection step (store step);
• searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service (search step);
• when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected by the search step, preparing a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services (first service menu preparation step) and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided;
• counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation step to the portable terminals (time-counting step);
• and
• push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting step (push distribution step).

A fault notification method for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said method comprising the steps of:

• periodically detecting an implementation status indicating whether or not services realized by data held in the contents servers are in a providable or acquisitive state (detection step);
• storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of the services detected by the detection step (store step);
• periodically searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service (search step);
• when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected by the search step, periodically preparing a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services (first service menu preparation step) and a status of the services that cannot be provided;
• upon the receipt of a request from a portable terminal for access, wherein the service provided by the contents server has been designated, looking up the first storage means to detect the implementation status of the designated service (second detection step);
• when the result of the detection by the second detection step is such that the designated service not in a providable or acquisitive state, preparing a service menu, which summarizes the implementation status of other services belonging to the same genre as the designated service (third service menu preparation step);
• and
• sending the service menu prepared by the third service menu preparation step to the portable terminal which has requested the access (second send step).

A fault notification method for a mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and stores information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, said method comprising the steps of:
• periodically checking whether a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive, and notifying the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service (notification step);
• receiving in the repeater information notified by the notification step (receive step);
• storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive step (store step);
• periodically searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service (search step);
• when a service not in a providable state has been detected by the search step, periodically preparing a service menu which can recognize providable services (first service menu preparation step) and a status of the services that cannot be provided;
• and
• upon a request from a portable terminal for the acquisition of a service provided by a contents server, sending the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation step to the portable terminal (send step).

A fault notification method for a mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and store information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, said method comprising the steps of:
• when a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive, notifying the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service (notification step);
• receiving in the repeater information notified by the notification step (receive step);
• storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive step (store step);
• searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service (search step);
• when a service not in a providable state has been detected by the search step, preparing a service menu which can recognize providable services (first service menu preparation step) and a status of the services that cannot be provided;
• counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation step to the portable terminal (time-counting step);
• and
• push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting step (push distribution step).

A fault notification method for a mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and stores information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, said method comprising the steps of:
• periodically checking whether a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive, and notifying the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service (notification step);
• receiving in the repeater information notified by the notification step (receive step);
• storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive step (store step);
• periodically searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service (search step);
• when a service, in a state such that the service cannot be acquired or provided, has been detected by the search step, periodically preparing a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services (first service menu preparation step) and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided;
• upon the receipt of a request from a portable terminal for access, wherein the service provided by the contents server has been designated, looking up the first storage means to detect the implementation status of the designated service (second detection step);
• when the result of the detection by the second detection step is such that the designated service is not in a providable or acquisitive state, preparing a service menu, which summarizes the implementation status of other services belonging to the same genre as the designated service (third service menu preparation step);
• and
• sending the service menu prepared by the third service menu preparation step to the portable terminal which has requested the access (second send step).

A computer readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a fault notification program for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing service are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said recording medium having, recorded thereon, a program for executing:

• detection processing for periodically detecting the status of operation of the contents servers present on the network;
• store processing for storing in first storage means information about the status of operation of the contents servers detected by the detection processing;
• search processing for searching the first storage means for the status of operation of the contents servers;
• first service menu preparation processing which, when an inactive contents server has been detected by the search processing, prepares a service menu which can recognize services provided by active contents servers and a status of the services that cannot be provided;
• and
• send processing which, upon a request from a portable terminal for the acquisition of a service provided by a contents server, sends the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation processing to the portable terminal.

A computer readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a fault notification program for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said recording medium having, recorded thereon, a program for executing:

• detection processing for periodically detecting an implementation status indicating whether or not services realized by data held in the contents server are in a providable or acquisitive state;
• store processing for storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of the services detected by the detection processing;
• search processing for periodically searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service;
• first service menu preparation processing which, when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected by the search processing, periodically prepares a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided;
• and
• send processing which, upon a request from a portable terminal for the acquisition of a service provided by a contents server, sends the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation processing to the portable terminal.

A computer readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a fault notification program for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which a contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which a portable terminals utilize, said recording medium having, recorded thereon, a program for executing:

• detection processing for periodically detecting the status of operation of the contents servers present on the network;
• store processing for storing in first storage means information about the status of operation of the contents servers detected by the detection processing;
• search processing for searching the first storage means for the status of operation of the contents server;
• first service menu preparation processing which, when an inactive contents server has been detected by the search processing, prepares a service menu which can recognize services provided by active contents servers and a status of inactive contents servers;
• time-counting processing for counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation processing to the portable terminals;
• and
• push distribution processing for push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting processing.

A computer readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a fault notification program for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said recording medium having, recorded thereon, a program for executing:

• detection processing for detecting whether or not services realized by data held in the contents server are in a providable or acquisitive state;
• store processing for storing in first storage means information about the status of the services detected by the detection processing;
• search processing for searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service;
• first service menu preparation processing which, when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected by the search processing, prepares a service menu which can recognize acquisitive or providable services and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided;
• time-counting processing for counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation processing to the portable terminals;
• and
• push distribution processing for push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting processing.

A computer readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a fault notification program for a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which contents servers for providing services are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which portable terminals utilize, said recording medium having, recorded thereon, a program for executing:

• detection processing for periodically detecting an implementation status indicating whether or not services realized by data held in the contents server are in a providable or acquisitive state;
• store processing for storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of the services detected by the detection processing;
• search processing for periodically searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service;
• first service menu preparation processing which, when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected by the search processing, periodically prepares a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable services and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided;
• second detection processing which, upon the receipt of a request from a portable terminal for access, wherein the service provided by the contents server has been designated, looks up the first storage means to detect the implementation status of the designated service;
• third service menu preparation processing which, when the designated service detected by the second detection processing is not in a providable or acquisitive state, prepares a service menu, which summarizes the implementation status of other services belonging to the same genre as the designated service;
• and
• second send processing for sending the service menu prepared by the third service menu preparation processing to the portable terminal which has requested the access.

A computer readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a fault notification program for a mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and store information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, said recording medium having, recorded thereon, a program for executing:
• notification processing for periodically checking whether a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive, and notifying the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service;
• receive processing for receiving in the repeater information notified by the notification processing;
• store processing for storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive processing;
• search processing for periodically searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service;
• first service menu preparation processing which, when a service not in a providable state has been detected by the search processing, periodically prepares a service menu which can recognize providable services and a status of the services that cannot be provided;
• and
• send processing which, upon a request from a portable terminal for the acquisition of a service provided by a contents server, sends the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation processing to the portable terminal.

A computer readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a fault notification program for a mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and store information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, said recording medium having, recorded thereon, a program for executing:
• notification processing which, when a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive, notifies the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service;
• receive processing for receiving in the repeater information notified by the notification processing;
• store processing for storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive processing;
• search processing for searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service;
• first service menu preparation processing which, when a service not in a providable state has been detected by the search processing, prepares a service menu which can recognize providable services and a status of the services that cannot be provided;
• time-counting processing for counting the timing of distribution of the service menu prepared by the first service menu preparation processing to the portable terminals;
• and
• push distribution processing for push-distributing the service menu to the portable terminal for which a predetermined time has been counted by the time-counting processing.

A computer readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a fault notification program for a mobile radio communication system comprising:

• portable terminals for performing communication through a radio communication channel;
• contents servers which are present on a network and store information;
• and
• a repeater for a protocol conversion of a communication protocol in a network, in which the contents servers are present, and a radio communication protocol in a radio communication channel which the portable terminals utilize, said recording medium having, recorded thereon, a program for executing:
• notification processing for periodically determining whether a service realized by data held in the contents server is inactive, and notifying the repeater of the inactive state of the service together with specifying information for specifying the service;
• receive processing for receiving in the repeater information notified by the notification processing;
• store processing storing in first storage means information about the implementation status of each service received by the receive processing;
• search processing for periodically searching the first storage means for the implementation status of each service;
• first service menu preparation processing which, when a service not in an acquisitive or providable state has been detected by the search processing, periodically prepares a service menu which can recognize acquisitive and providable state and a status of services that cannot be acquired or provided;
• second detection processing which, upon the receipt of a request from a portable terminal for access, wherein the service provided by the contents server has been designated, looks up the first storage means to detect the implementation status of the designated service;
• third service menu preparation processing which, when the result of the detection by the second detection processing is such that the designated service is not in a providable or acquisitive state, prepares a service menu, which summarizes the implementation status of other services belonging to the same genre as the designated service;
• and
• second send processing for sending the service menu prepared by the third service menu preparation processing to the portable terminal which has requested the access.