COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATING CONTROLLING METHOD, SERVICE REGISTERING METHOD, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND EQUIPMENT CONTROLLING PROGRAM REGISTERING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a unified service providing environment independent of a specific network by dynamically describing information concerning a service moving on communication equipment in a configuration information storing means. ;SOLUTION: A first AV connector 4, a PC 6 and a digital TV 7 are connected to a first IEEE 1394 bus 1. A second AV connector 5, a DVD player 8, a digital VTR 9, a PC 10 and a printer 11 are connected to a second IEEE 1394 bus 3. Then, another node communicated through communication equipment (PC 6 and 10) can timely recognize an application which the PC 6 and 10 serve at a point of time by accessing to a configuration information storing means. Especially when an operating service dynamically varies, the dynamic variation of the operation of a service becomes more intense, therefore effectiveness of dynamically varying service configuration information becomes significant.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO