CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, MONITORING SERVER, AND SIP PROXY SERVER

• US 20090119401A1
• Filed: 10/31/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: OIKAWA, Tomoya, Kawada, Masato, Wang, Honggang, Kobota, Norio
• Granted Patent: US 8,219,610 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS

Abstract

A content providing system that provides content to a user terminal via a network includes a content providing server that is connected to the network and provides content, an SIP proxy server that is connected to the network and relays transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, and a monitoring server that is connected to the network and stores monitoring information regarding transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, the monitoring information being transmitted from the SIP proxy server.

Claims

1. A content providing system that provides content to a user terminal via a network, the content providing system comprising:

a content providing server that is connected to the network and provides content;

an SIP proxy server that is connected to the network and relays transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server; and

a monitoring server that is connected to the network and stores monitoring information regarding transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, the monitoring information being transmitted from the SIP proxy server.

2. A monitoring server that is connected to a network to which a content providing server that provides content and an SIP proxy server that relays transmission and reception between a user terminal and the content providing server are connected, the monitoring server comprising:

a monitoring-information reception unit that receives monitoring information regarding transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, the monitoring information being sent from the SIP proxy server; and

a monitoring-information storage unit that stores the monitoring information received by the monitoring-information reception unit.

3. The monitoring server according to claim 2,

wherein the monitoring information is information regarding an SIP response transmitted from the content providing server to the user terminal in response to an SIP method transmitted from the user terminal to the content providing server.

4. An SIP proxy server that is connected to a network, to which a content providing server that provides content is connected, and relays transmission and reception between a user terminal and the content providing server, the SIP proxy server comprising:

a monitoring-information transmission unit that transmits, to a monitoring server that is connected to the network, monitoring information regarding transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server.

5. The SIP proxy server according to claim 4,

wherein the monitoring information is information regarding an SIP response transmitted from the content providing server to the user terminal in response to an SIP method transmitted from the user terminal to the content providing server.