Log-in method for a client server system, a computer program, and a recording medium

• US 20060152752A1
• Filed: 07/31/2003
• Published: 07/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Original Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Naoya, Goshima, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US10/525,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20060152752A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication

Abstract

The present invention relates to a log-in method for a client server system which enables a client computer to log in to a server accessible via either the Internet or a LAN with high security and operability. When a server 101 receives a connection request from a client computer 102, the server 101 obtains an IP address of the client computer 102 and judges based on the IP address a network to which the client computer 102 is connected. When the server 101 judges that the client computer 102 is a client computer 102c connected to the Internet 105, the server 101 causes the client computer 102 to display a first log-in screen. On the other hand, when the server 101 judges that the client computer 102 is a client computer 102a or 102b connected to the LAN 102, the server 101 causes the client computer 102 to display a second log-in screen which can be more easily operated than the first log-in screen.

Claims

1. A log-in method for a client server system constituted so as to display a predetermined log-in screen on a client computer, the server being constituted so as to obtain identification data of the client computer in response to a connection request from the client computer, judge based on the identification data of the client computer a network to which the client computer is connected, display a first log-in screen on the client computer when it judges that the network to which the client computer is connected is a first network, and display a second log-in screen on the client computer when it judges that the network to which the client computer is connected is a second network.

2. A log-in method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the second log-in screen is constituted so that it can be used more easily than the first log-in screen.

3. A log-in method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the first log-in screen is adapted to be directly input with both a log-in name and a password of a user and the second log-in screen is constituted so as to require a user to select a log-in name of the user and directly input a password of the user.

4. A log-in method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the first log-in screen is adapted to be directly input with both a log-in name and a password of a user and the second log-in screen is constituted so as to require a user to select a log-in name of the user in accordance with an auto-complete format and to directly input a password of the user.

5. A log-in method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the level of access restriction to the second log-in screen is determined to be higher than that to the first log-in screen.

6. A log-in method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the server is constituted so as to refer to a list in which at least the identification data of the client computer connected to the second network is registered when it judges a network the client computer is connected to based on the identification data.

7. A log-in method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the first network is constituted as the Internet and the second network is constituted as a local area network.

8. A log-in method in accordance with claim 7, wherein the identification data are constituted as an IP address and the server is constituted so as to refer to an address list in which at least IP addresses of client computers connected to the local area network are registered, judge that when the IP address is registered in the address list, a client computer having the IP address is connected to the local area network and judge that when the IP address is not registered in the address list, a client computer having the IP address is connected to the Internet.

9. A log-in method in accordance with claim 7, wherein the identification data are constituted as an IP address and the server is constituted so as to judge that when the IP address is a global IP address, a client computer having the IP address is connected to the Internet and judge that when the IP address is a local IP address, a client computer having the IP address is connected to the local area network.

10. A computer program for enabling a server in a client server system constituted so as to display a predetermined log-in screen on a client computer to execute at least a step of obtaining identification data of the client computer in response to a connection request from the client computer, a step of judging based on the identification data of the client computer a network to which the client computer is connected, a step of displaying a first log-in screen on the client computer when it is judged that the network to which the client computer is connected is a first network, and a step of displaying a second log-in screen on the client computer when it is judged that the network to which the client computer is connected is a second network.

11. A computer-readable recording medium in which is recorded a computer program for enabling a server in a client server system constituted so as to display a predetermined log-in screen on a client computer to execute at least a step of obtaining identification data of the client computer in response to a connection request from the client computer, a step of judging based on the identification data of the client computer a network to which the client computer is connected, a step of displaying a first log-in screen on the client computer when it is judged that the network to which the client computer is connected is a first network, and a step of displaying a second log-in screen on the client computer when it is judged that the network to which the client computer is connected is a second network.