US 7,574,517 B2
Information processing unit, method, and program
Takashi Nomura, Tokyo (Japan); Hiroyuki Tominaga, Kanagawa (Japan); Haruhiko Sakata, Kanagawa (Japan); Masayuki Takahashi, Tokyo (Japan); and Masayuki Ishikawa, Chiba (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/489,852
PCT Filed Jun. 25, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/08026
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 02, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/012401, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 05, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-221129 (JP), filed on Jul. 30, 2002; and application No. 2003-091291 (JP), filed on Mar. 28, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0021829 A1, Jan. 27, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—233  [709/224] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus that communicates with a first other information processing apparatus over a network, said information processing apparatus comprising:
login means for logging in to a second other information processing apparatus;
measurement means for measuring a transmission speed of a transmission path between the second other information processing apparatus and the information processing apparatus before or after a login operation is performed via the login means with respect to the second other information processing apparatus;
notification means for notifying the first other information processing apparatus, via the second other information processing apparatus, of the measured transmission speed; and
communication means for communicating with the first other information processing apparatus at a transmission speed set based on the transmission speed measured by said measurement means.