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EP0719016A2
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Communication equipment
Assignee: Sharp Corp
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Filing: 1995-11-29
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2015-11-29
Abstract
Abstract Communication equipment comprises a communication section 3 performing communication with other equipment via a public line, a local area network, or an infrared communication network, a resource information storing section 5 storing what format data equipment can handle, a data storing section 6 storing data to be transmitted, a data conversion section 7 converting data so that the other party of communication can interpret it, a conversion table 8 storing whether currently held data can be converted to a form that the other party of communication can interpret, a conversion- means storing section 9 storing actual conversion means, and a negotiation section 10 knowing what the resource information of equipment of the other part is.
Inventors
- 👤 Toru Ueda
- 👤 Yasuko Matsuoka
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
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2026-11-01 09:22
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L65/00; H04L65/80; H04L51/00; H04L51/06; H04L51/066; H04L65/1066; H04L65/1069; H04L65/1101; H04L65/60; H04L65/61; H04L65/612; H04L65/75; H04L65/762; H04L67/00; H04L67/2866; H04L67/30; H04L67/303; H04L67/50; H04L67/56; H04L67/565; H04L69/00; H04L69/24; H04L69/30; H04L69/32; H04L69/322; H04L69/329; H04L61/00; H04L61/35; H04L69/08
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
121 words
Communication equipment for transmitting and receiving information including all or some of characters, images, figures, voice, music data, and digitized data, characterized by comprising: resource information storing means (5) for storing information on a resource comprising hardware and software for processing data; negotiation means (10) for communicating with other communication equipment on a receiving side to judge if said other communication equipment on the receiving side has the same resource; and conversion means (7) which, when said other communication equipment on the receiving side does not have the same resource, performs data conversion, based on a conversion table (8) stating conversion means for converting data to be transmitted to data that said other communication equipment on the receiving side can process.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
105 words
A communication equipment as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: performance evaluation value storing means (11) for storing a performance evaluation value representative of calculation performance of said communication equipment; and performance comparing means (12) for comparing said performance evaluation value of said communication equipment with a performance evaluation value of said other communication equipment on the receiving side; and wherein said performance evaluation value of said communication equipment and said performance evaluation value of said other communication equipment on the receiving side are compared and said data conversion is performed with one of said communication equipment which is superior in performance evaluation value.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
85 words
A communication equipment as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: original-address storing means (22) for storing where original data exists with respect to each data; and original-address adding means (23) for adding, at the time of communication, information on where original data exists; and wherein, when said original data is desired to be obtained at said other communication equipment on the receiving side, said original data is obtained from the other communication equipment having said original data, based on an instruction from a user.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
25 words
A communication equipment as set forth in claim 1, wherein said conversion table (8) and said resource information storing means (5) are a writable medium.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
100 words
A communication equipment as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: conversion requesting means (24) for requesting data conversion of a third communication equipment differing from said communication equipment and said other communication equipment on the receiving side; and conversion accepting means (25) for accepting conversion from the other communication equipment; and wherein, when data cannot be converted at said communication equipment to a form that said other communication equipment on the receiving side can process, data conversion is requested of said third communication equipment and the converted data is sent to said other communication equipment on the receiving side.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
77 words
A communication equipment as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: communication time estimating means (26) for estimating a communication time needed for data transmission for each of various data conversions; display means (1) for displaying an evaluation time of said communication time for each said data conversion; and selection means (21) for selecting an arbitrary method based on information on the kind of said data conversion and said communication time displayed on the said display means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
64 words
A communication equipment as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: output-information storing means (27) for storing information including software for processing current data to be transmitted, and wherein, when said other communication equipment does not have said information including software for processing current data but communication equipment on a sending side has said information, said information is transmitted together with said current data.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
112 words
Terminal equipment for transmitting and receiving a message consisting of data such as voice, characters, and figures, and a code controlling an operation of a terminal, characterized by comprising: absence judging means (37) which, when a message is received, judges that a user is absent; transmitting means (38) which, when the user is judged to be absent by said absence judging means, automatically transmits an absence message to a sender of the received message; secondary storage means (36) for storing transmission messages, reception messages, a history of transmissions and receptions, and data characteristic to senders; and display means (34) for displaying said history stored in said secondary storage means as character information.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
53 words
A terminal equipment as set forth in claim 8, further comprising code information control means (39) which, when the user selects the other party of transmission from said history displayed on said display means, provides control so that a message is transmitted by use of said data stored in said secondary storage means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
25 words
A terminal equipment as set forth in claim 8, further comprising fixed-pattern storage means (42) for storing a plurality of patterns of said absence message.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
23 words
A terminal equipment as set forth in claim 8, further comprising message editing means (43) for a user to make said absence message.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
40 words
A terminal equipment as set forth in claim 9, where said code information control means receives a message including a code requesting communication and provides control so that communication with a sender is performed when the user selects performing communication.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
50 words
A terminal equipment as set forth in claim 9, where said code information control means provides control so that when a message is displayed, a message including a code requesting communication is displayed on said display means and when the user selects performing communication, communication with a sender is performed.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
29 words
A terminal equipment as set forth in claim 8, where said secondary storage means stores data, which the user inputs, in the same data form as said absence message.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
110 words
Data communication apparatus for transmitting data to a receiving data communication device, including means for storing information concerning data processing capabilities of the apparatus,means for comparing the data processing capabilities of the apparatus, as represented by said information in the storing means, with the data processing capabilities of the receiving data communication device, as represented by information received from said device, means operable in the event that the comparing means determines a mismatch in the processing capabilites of said apparatus and said device, to select a form of data conversion required in order to convert the data into a form capable of being processed by said receiving data communication device.
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