Abstract: A gateway realizes a connection between a network where HAVi devices are hooked up and another network in accordance with a Play-and-Plug spec. (e.g. the internet protocol (IP)) other than the HAVi spec. An HAVi plug-in detector detects a plug-in of a device to the HAVi network. A virtual device functions as a gateway for accessing from a device plugged-in the IP network to the device plugged-in the HAVi network. A virtual device controller provides the virtual device with an IP identifier for accessing to the virtual device from the IP network, and turns the virtual device to a standby status waiting for connection. A pseudo address generator generates a pseudo address for the virtual device to communicate with the device in the HAVi network, and provides the virtual device with the pseudo address. An address-correspondence-controller controls the correspondence between an HAVi address and the IP identifier both provided to the virtual device.

Abstract: There is disclosed a system including an access right setting apparatus and manager terminal in which a user having an access to a resource of a network limited issues a request, and thereby an access right can easily be set, and the user who desires to access the resource describes set contents of the access right, such as the resource, time, and access content, in access request information 303, and transmits the information to an access right setting apparatus 100 for managing the access right in the system. The received access request information 303 is transferred to a manager of the resource by access request information transfer means 102, and the manager simply confirms a request content and makes judgment of approval, so that the access right setting apparatus 100 automatically sets the access right.

Abstract: In a facsimile server or a sound server, a data conversion portion and a computer interface are further provided to provide data serving by converting the data from or into the data base in the server into the data matching to the terminal under serving. A facsimile and sound server, coupled to a network, having a data base, further comprises an electronic mail analyzing portion and an electronic mail transmission and receiving portion, so that the electronic mail can be stored in or read from the data base. Moreover, a data conversion portion may be further provided to the facsimile and sound server, so that formats of various types of data may be converted to have formats matched to the types of the terminal requesting the data. Further a notice data setting portion may be further provided, so that a notice of data or a sound guidance from the facsimile and sound server can be controlled remotely by the electronic mail or a command from a telephone terminal.