Method of setting up internet server and method of setting information communication apparatus

• US 20010032237A1
• Filed: 01/05/2001
• Published: 10/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyake, Nobumasa, Hanahara, Sessyu, Kobayashi, Masakazu, Uchida, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US09/755,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20010032237A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration

Abstract

A method of setting up an Internet server and a method of setting an information communication apparatus are disclosed. There are steps of storing in a storage medium setting information for connecting the information communication apparatus to the network in a state corresponding to a use environment of the information communication apparatus on the side of a client, and reading the setting information from the storage medium to connect the information communication apparatus to the network.

Claims

1. A method of setting up an Internet server, comprising the steps of:

receiving from a client information on the connecting environment of said Internet server to the Internet on the side of the client;

generating setup information to connect said Internet server to the Internet according to the information on the connecting environment on the side of said client; and

storing said setup information in a storage medium,

wherein said setup information is the information that will allow the client who received said Internet server and said storage medium to have said Internet server automatically set up with said set up information.

2. The method of setting up an Internet server according to

claim 1

, wherein

said setup information includes at least IP address of said Internet server, host name and domain name of a client.

3. The method of setting up an Internet server according to

claim 1

, wherein

said storage medium stores a unique password pertaining to said Internet server,

wherein said password is the information that enables setup processing for said Internet server only when said password matches to a password which is set up in said Internet server at the time of setting up by said client.

4. A method of setting up an Internet server, comprising the steps of:

receiving from a distributor of said Internet server said Internet server and a storage medium related to said Internet server; and

performing set up processing automatically to connect said Internet server to the Internet;

wherein information stored in said storage medium is the information that is previously generated by the distributor of said Internet server according to the information pertaining to the connecting environment on the side of a client who installs said Internet server.

5. A method of setting an information communication apparatus for connecting to a network, said method comprising:

a first step of storing in a storage medium setting information for connecting said information communication apparatus to said network in a state corresponding to a use environment of said information communication apparatus on the side of a client; and

a second step of reading said setting information from said storage medium to connect said information communication apparatus to said network.

6. The method of setting an information communication apparatus according to

claim 5

, wherein

said first step stores a unique password in said storage medium together with said setting information;

and

said second step compares said password with a password previously set in said information communication apparatus, and connects said information communication apparatus to said network when said password matches the password previously set in said information communication apparatus.

7. The method of setting an information communication apparatus according to

claim 6

, wherein

said storage medium comprises a semiconductor memory removably mounted to said information communication apparatus.