Network data transfer method

• US 20060036673A1
• Filed: 11/18/2002
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Ashiya, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,437,442 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/029 Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99954 Version management

Abstract

A network data-transfer method of transferring data from a server on a network to a network-connected equipment without having a user interface to make the network-connected equipment perform a processing includes relaying an access between the server and a client to represent for the access by the network-connected equipment; creating a transfer-data to be transferred to the client as a response to the access to the server at the relaying by putting a processing data for the network-connected equipment in the transfer-data; and a transfer-data processing by the network-connected equipment, the transfer-data processing including acquiring the transfer-data created at the creating, extracting the processing data from the transfer-data, and processing the processing data extracted.

Claims

1. A network data-transfer method of transferring data from a server on a network to a network-connected equipment without having a user interface to make the network-connected equipment perform a processing, the network data-transfer method comprising:

relaying an access between the server and a client to represent for the access by the network-connected equipment;

creating a transfer-data to be transferred to the client as a response to the access to the server at the relaying by putting a processing data for the network-connected equipment in the transfer-data; and

a transfer-data processing by the network-connected equipment, the transfer-data processing including acquiring the transfer-data created at the creating, extracting the processing data from the transfer-data, and processing the processing data extracted.

2. The network data-transfer method according to claim 1, wherein the creating includes

putting, when the server transfers markup language format data to the network-connected equipment as a response to the access, a predetermined special-character string for identification indicating a data area where processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is described in a comment portion in a comment tag of the markup language format data;

and

putting the processing-data in a data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

3. The network data-transfer method according to claim 2, wherein the transfer-data processing includes

a data extracting including obtaining the markup language format data from the server, monitoring the special-character string for identification in the markup language format data, and extracting the processing-data located in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification;

and

processing the processing-data extracted at the data extracting by the network-connected equipment based on a type of the processing-data.

4. The network data-transfer method according to claim 3, wherein the putting the processing-data includes putting a text format file to be processed by the network-connected equipment in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

5. The network data-transfer method according to claim 3, wherein the putting the processing-data includes putting setup data for the network-connected equipment to be processed by the network-connected equipment in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

6. The network data-transfer method according to claim 3, wherein the putting the processing-data includes putting a script that causes the network-connected equipment to perform an execution in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

7. The network data-transfer method according to claim 3, wherein the putting the processing-data includes putting position data of a file to be processed by the network-connected equipment on the network in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

8. The network data-transfer method according to claim 4, wherein

the data extracting includes, when the processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is a text format file, extracting the file, and

the processing the processing-data includes storing the file extracted.

9. The network data-transfer method according to claim 5, wherein

the data extracting includes, when the processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is the setup data for the network-connected equipment, extracting the setup data, and

the processing the processing-data includes setting up the network-connected equipment based on the setup data extracted.

10. The network data-transfer method according to claim 6, wherein

the data extracting includes, when the processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is the script, extracting the script, and

the processing the processing data includes processing the processing data based on the script.

11. The network data-transfer method according to claim 7, wherein

the data extracting includes, when the processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is a text format file, extracting the position data, extracting the position data, and

the processing the processing-data includes, based on the position data extracted, acquiring the file to be processed by the network-connected equipment from the network, and storing the file.