Information processing device and program

• US 20070011326A1
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ohara, Kiyotaka
• Granted Patent: US 8,478,869 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/251 between different IP versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/167 Adaptation for transition between two IP versions, e.g. between IPv4 and IPv6 translation of Internet protocol [IP] addresses H04L61/2503

Abstract

An information processing device communicable with a server device and a name resolution server includes a sending and receiving system that sends a device name of the server device to the name resolution server, and receives an IP address corresponding to the device name from the name resolution server, an IP address storing system that stores at least one IP address, an access system that accesses application programs stored in the server device, an access control system that controls the access system to access the application programs according to the at least one IP address, a communication protocol storing system that stores the communication protocol corresponding to the IP address used for a previous access, and an access control instructing system that instructs the access control system to control the access system to access the application programs according to the at least one IP address.

Claims

1. An information processing device configured communicable with a server device and a name resolution server, the server device being configured to store an operation system configured communicable based upon two or more communication protocols and two or more application programs configured operable on the operation system, the name resolution server being configured to store an IP address for each of the communication protocols that enable communication on the operation system of the server device and a device name of the server device associated with each other, receive the device name that a requesting source requesting the IP address sends before receiving the IP address for each of the communication protocols corresponding to the device name, and send the received IP address for each of the communication protocols corresponding to the device name to the requesting source, the information processing device, comprising:

a sending and receiving system configured to send the device name of the server device to communicate with to the name resolution server, and receive the IP address corresponding to the device name for each of the communication protocols that is to be sent from the name resolution server in response to the device name being sent;

an IP address storing system configured to store at least one IP address received by the sending and receiving system for each of the communication protocols that enable the communication on the operation system of the server device;

an access system configured to access the application programs;

an access control system configured to control the access system to access the application programs according to the at least one IP address stored in the IP address storing system;

a communication protocol storing system configured to store the communication protocol corresponding to the IP address used for a previous access by the access system for each of the application programs; and

an access control instructing system configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access a corresponding one of the application programs in accordance with the at least one IP address stored in the IP address storing system corresponding to the communication protocol stored for each of the application programs in the communication protocol storing system.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the access control instructing system is configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access the application program again using the IP address corresponding to a communication protocol different from the communication protocol stored for each of the application programs in the communication protocol storing system, in response to the application program being inaccessible in accordance with the at least one IP address corresponding to the communication protocol stored for each of the application programs in the communication protocol storing system.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a priority assigning system configured to assign a priority to each of the communication protocols used for the access system accessing the application programs, and store the priority; and

a judging system configured to judge whether a past performance condition determined from a previous access, or the previous access and a present access performed by the access system satisfies a predetermined condition classified by the kind of the access, prior to the present access,

wherein the access control instructing system is configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access the application program in accordance with the at least one IP address corresponding to the communication protocol stored for each of the application programs in the communication protocol storing system, in response to the judging system judging that the past performance condition does not satisfy the predetermined condition classified by the kind of the access, and

wherein the access control instructing system is configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to sequentially access the application program in accordance with the IP addresses in the order from an IP address corresponding to a communication protocol to which the priority assigning system has assigned a higher priority, in response to the judging system judging that the past performance condition satisfies the predetermined condition classified by the kind of the access.

4. A computer usable medium having instructions readable by a computer configured communicable with a server device and a name resolution server, the server device being configured to store an operation system configured communicable based upon two or more communication protocols and two or more application programs configured operable on the operation system, the name resolution server being configured to store an IP address for each of the communication protocols that enable communication on the operation system of the server device and a device name of the server device associated with each other, receive the device name that a requesting source requesting the IP address sends before receiving the IP address for each of the communication protocols corresponding to the device name, and send the received IP address for each of the communication protocols corresponding to the device name to the requesting source, the instructions causing the computer to serve as:

a sending and receiving system configured to send the device name of the server device to communicate with to the name resolution server, and receive the IP address corresponding to the device name for each of the communication protocols that is to be sent from the name resolution server in response to the device name being sent;

an IP address storing system configured to store at least one IP address received by the sending and receiving system for each of the communication protocols that enable the communication on the operation system of the server device;

an access system configured to access the application programs;

an access control system configured to control the access system to access the application programs according to the at least one IP address stored in the IP address storing system;

a communication protocol storing system configured to store the communication protocol corresponding to the IP address used for a previous access by the access system for each of the application programs; and

an access control instructing system configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access a corresponding one of the application programs in accordance with the at least one IP address stored in the IP address storing system corresponding to the communication protocol stored for each of the application programs in the communication protocol storing system.