Information processing system, information processing method and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12301671-B2
Application number	US-202418413370-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 16, 2024
Priority date	Sep 14, 2020
Publication date	May 13, 2025
Grant date	May 13, 2025

Abstract

One aspect of the present invention is an information processing system that includes a computing machine installed in a computing machine base, and a first transmitting/receiving apparatus connected to the computing machine, a second transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in a user base that is used by a user, and a device connected to the second transmitting/receiving apparatus, and a control apparatus configured to control connection between the first transmitting/receiving apparatus and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus. In the information processing system, the control apparatus is configured to change the connection between the first transmitting/receiving apparatus and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus, and copy the state of the pre-change computing machine from the pre-change computing machine into the post-change computing machine.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing system comprising:
a computing machine installed in a computing machine base, and a first transmitting/receiving apparatus connected to the computing machine;
a second transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in a user base that is used by a user, and a device connected to the second transmitting/receiving apparatus; and
a control apparatus configured to control connection between one first transmitting/receiving apparatus among a plurality of the first transmitting/receiving apparatuses and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus,
wherein the control apparatus is configured to change a first connection between the second transmitting/receiving apparatus and the first transmitting/receiving apparatus to a second connection between the second transmitting/receiving apparatus and another one of the first transmitting/receiving apparatuses, and copy computing machine state information about a pre-change computing machine that is the computing machine before the change, into a post-change computing machine that is the computing machine after the change, before the user starts using the post-change computing machine, on a basis of a movement prediction or a change prediction about the user, the computing machine state information being copied from the pre-change computing machine, and
the control apparatus is configured to make the change prediction about the user, on a basis of an operating rate of the pre-change computing machine.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first network configured to perform data communication among a plurality of the computing machines; and
a second network configured to perform communication between the first transmitting/receiving apparatus and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus,
wherein
the control apparatus is configured to change, via the second network, a first connection between the second transmitting/receiving apparatus and the first transmitting/receiving apparatus to a second connection between the second transmitting/receiving apparatus and another one of the first transmitting/receiving apparatuses, and copy the computing machine state information from the pre-change computing machine into the post-change computing machine via the first network.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the computing machine state information is information regarding a state of the computing machine used by the user before the change, and is at least one piece of CPU state information, GPU state information, memory state information, and storage state information, or an appropriate combination of CPU state information, GPU state information, memory state information, and storage state information, and
the control apparatus is configured to copy the computing machine state information from the pre-change computing machine into the post-change computing machine.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control apparatus is configured to make a movement prediction about the user, on a basis of location information detected by a location detector being carried by the user.

5. An information processing method implemented in an information processing system that includes: a computing machine installed in a computing machine base, and a first transmitting/receiving apparatus connected to the computing machine; a second transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in a user base that is used by a user, and a device connected to the second transmitting/receiving apparatus; and a control apparatus configured to control connection between one first transmitting/receiving apparatus among a plurality of the first transmitting/receiving apparatuses and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus,
the information processing method comprising
by the control apparatus, changing a first connection between the second transmitting/receiving apparatus and the first transmitting/receiving apparatus to a second connection between the second transmitting/receiving apparatus and another one of the first transmitting/receiving apparatuses, and copying computing machine state information about a pre-change computing machine that is the computing machine before the change, into a post-change computing machine that is the computing machine after the change, before the user starts using the post-change computing machine, on a basis of a movement prediction or a change prediction about the user, the computing machine state information being copied from the pre-change computing machine,
wherein the information processing method further comprises, by the control apparatus, making the change prediction about the user, on a basis of an operating rate of the pre-change computing machine.

6. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program that is executed in an information processing system that includes: a computing machine installed in a computing machine base, and a first transmitting/receiving apparatus connected to the computing machine; a second transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in a user base that is used by a user, and a device connected to the second transmitting/receiving apparatus; and a control apparatus configured to control connection between one first transmitting/receiving apparatus among a plurality of the first transmitting/receiving apparatuses and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus,
the program causing a computer of the control apparatus to:
change a first connection between the second transmitting/receiving apparatus and the first transmitting/receiving apparatus to a second connection between the second transmitting/receiving apparatus and another one of the first transmitting/receiving apparatuses; and copy computing machine state information about a pre-change computing machine that is the computing machine before the change, into a post-change computing machine that is the computing machine after the change, before the user starts using the post-change computing machine, on a basis of a movement prediction or a change prediction about the user, the computing machine state information being copied from the pre-change computing machine,
wherein the program further causes the computer of the control apparatus to make the change prediction about the user, on a basis of an operating rate of the pre-change computing machine.

Assignees

• Nippon Telegraph & Telephone

Inventors

• Ohara Takuya
• Oda Takuya
• Inuzuka Fumikazu
• Tanaka Takafumi
• Shimoda Masayuki

Classifications

• H04L41/0846

  based on copy from other elements · CPC title

• H04L41/084

  Configuration by using pre-existing information, e.g. using templates or copying from other elements · CPC title

• H04L41/147

  for predicting network behaviour · CPC title

• G06F15/00

  Digital computers in general (details G06F1/00 – G06F13/00); Data processing equipment in general · CPC title

• H04L67/141 Primary

  Setup of application sessions (admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70) · CPC title