Network Information Protection Method and Storage Medium

• US 20090013392A1
• Filed: 12/19/2005
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intelligentdisc Incorporated
• Original Assignee: In Intelligentdisc
• Inventors: Shigetomi, Takashi, Karimoto, Hiroyasu
• Application Number:
  US11/721,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20090013392A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/80 Wireless network architectures or network communication protocols for wireless network security H04W12/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3231 Biological data, e.g. fingerprint, voice or retina network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using biometrical features in a packet data network H04L63/0861

Abstract

Biological certification information of a user A and access certification information for each user are stored in a memory in an electronic circuit that is installed on a disc. At the time of driving the disc, the user'"'"'s biological certification information and the biological certification information stored in the electronic circuit are compared and access certification information is sent out to a network when both information agree to each other. At the network, connection of the user'"'"'s terminal to a service community is permitted when the user is determined to be an authorized one based on the received access certification information. Determined in the service community are an on-duty concierge who takes care of the service request by the user'"'"'s terminal and an administration concierge who monitors communication information between the user and the on-duty concierge. Then, the administration concierge keeps monitoring communication information between the terminals used by the user and the on-duty concierge for generating a warning or compulsively interrupting the communication when the monitoring information meets the predetermined condition.

Claims

1. A network information protecting method in which a user terminal accesses and connects with a service community provided in a service provider connected to a network, and in which information of communication with said service community is protected, said method comprising:

a step which, when driving a disk provided with an electronic circuit having a memory region on which living-body authentication information for living-body authentication of a user and access authentication information required for access to said network determined for each user are stored, acquires living-body information on said living-body authentication information from said user by living-body authentication means; and

a step which compares the acquired living-body information with living-body authentication information stored in said electronic circuit or an external storage medium and, when both are the same, sends out said access authentication information to said network;

wherein, in said network, by access authentication means, it is judged, based on said access authentication information received, whether or not said user is a regular user, and when said user is judged to be said regular user, a connection of said user terminal with said service community is allowed;

and wherein, in said service community, a charge concierge who meets a service request from said user terminal, and a watching concierge who watches communication information between said user and said charge concierge, are determined, communication information between said user terminal and a terminal of said charge concierge is watched by watching means, and when watched information meets a predetermined condition, a warning is sent out or said communication is forcibly interrupted.

2. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said communication information contains at least one of a character, voice, and an image, and said predetermined condition is a condition that said communication information is the same as information registered beforehand.

3. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said predetermined condition is divided into a plurality of levels, and a warning corresponding to each of said levels is sent out.

4. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said communication information contains personal information of said user.

5. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said electronic circuit or external storage medium stores access destination information, and sends out said access destination information.

6. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said network is equipped with a management center which manages information containing the access authentication information of said user, and the judgment by said access authentication means is performed by comparison with access authentication information managed by said management center.

7. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said access authentication information contains ID and a password of said user.

8. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein information transfer at said network by said user is performed by a nickname given beforehand to said user.

9. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said access authentication information is enciphered and output from said user terminal, and at said network, the enciphered access authentication information received is decoded.

10. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said access authentication information is altered each time said user obtains access to said service community.

11. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said access authentication information that is altered is processed based on an open cryptographic key and a secrete decoding key that only said user terminal, said charge concierge terminal, and a watching concierge terminal can know.

12. The network information protecting method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said living-body authentication information is fingerprint authentication, face authentication, voiceprint authentication, or iris authentication information.

14. A storage medium having a program for causing a computer to carry out the method as set forth in claim 1.

13. A network information protecting method in which a user terminal accesses and connects with a service community provided in a service provider connected to a network, and in which information of communication with said service community is protected, said method comprising:

a step of allowing a connection of said user terminal with said service community;

wherein, in said service community, a charge concierge who meets a service request from said user terminal, and a watching concierge who watches communication information between said user and said charge concierge, are determined, communication information between said user terminal and a terminal of said charge concierge is watched by watching means, and when watched information meets a predetermined condition, a warning is sent out or said communication is forcibly interrupted.