Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a meeting negotiation system for scheduling events while preserving privacy through shared representation which separates a meeting negotiation and a meeting invitation from each other. SOLUTION: The negotiation system integrates all scheduling-related information such as times user can meet, locations etc. and reduces dependency on designations of times as free or busy by a potential meeting attendee. The negotiation system supports annotations and comments as a discussion mechanism and gives feedback to a meeting scheduler before the meeting invitation is issued. Possible times provided for the meeting are provided in the form of a bounded negotiation, and participants can select the best time for them to attend a meeting from the bounded negotiation. A meeting organizer finalizes the meeting time from responses provided by participants. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a method for operating a remote device through a wide-area network such as the Internet by executing commands by connecting to a device which performs an intermediate process for the commands and a result, and generating the result. SOLUTION: It is realized by connecting, by a network 100, more than one client computer 102 to more than one server computer 104. One server computer 104 is a proxy server computer 104 which provides the intermediate process for commands for the remote device 106 and another server computer 104 is a device server computer 104, which actually controls the remote device 106. Consequently, a user interface provided by a browser 108 and a client command processor 110 enables individual users to operate and view the actual state of the remote device 106.