Patent attributes
Personal computers and other electronic devices that are connected by a network are installed in each individual office. An employee is enabled to use each individual electronic device by performing an authentication process using authentication information in an information recording medium (IC card) that is issued as an employee ID card. In the information recording medium is recorded a code C103 that indicates an electronic device that is to be a report target (for example, the employee's own personal computer 103 installed in a Chiba Branch). When this employee goes to a Tokyo Headquarters on business and performs the authentication process using the information recording medium in order to use an electronic device 101, the code C103 is read by the electronic device 101, a location information, “Tokyo Headquarters,” which indicates the employee's current location, is transmitted via the network to the electronic device 103 that is the report target, and the current location (the installation location of the electronic device 101) is displayed on a screen of the electronic device 103. Tasks of self-declaring destinations are made unnecessary and detailed destination displays are enabled.
