HOME-USE INFORMATION PRODUCT AND MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20090217376A1
• Filed: 11/16/2005
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Aoyama, Yasuhiro, Kaneko, Tomoharu, Iwama, Tomohiro, Kito, Tsutomu
• Application Number:
  US11/719,493
• Publication Number:
  US 20090217376A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2582 through control of the NAT server, e.g. using universal plug and play [UPnP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1408 by monitoring network traffic monitoring network traffic per se H04L43/00

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a home-use information product capable of retaining the security even under a network attack, while achieving P2P connection. When detecting a network attack, a home-use information product (104) notifies a mobile terminal (102) of the network attack. When receiving the notification, the mobile terminal (102) closes the port of a P2P connection part (121), requests the home-use information product (104) to close its port, and causes the home-use information product (104) to close the P2P connection port of a NAT router (103).

Claims

1. An information appliance comprising:

a P2P connection section that establishes a P2P (peer to peer) connection to a mobile terminal on an IP (internet protocol) communication network via a router;

a router operation section that changes setting information of a routing table of the router; and

an attack detection section that detects a network attack,

wherein the router operation section changes the setting information of the routing table of the router to close a P2P connection port of the router in response to the detection of the network attack by the attack detection section.

2. A mobile terminal comprising:

a P2P connection section that establishes a P2P (peer to peer) connection to an information appliance on an IP (internet protocol) communication network via a router;

a message receiving section that receives a message inputted from the information appliance via the P2P connection section; and

a port operation section that performs open and close operations of a port of the P2P connection section,

wherein the port operation section performs the operations of closing the port of the P2P connection section after the message receiving section receives the message indicating an ongoing network attack from the information appliance.

3. An information appliance comprising:

a P2P connection section that establishes a P2P (peer to peer) connection to the mobile terminal of claim 2 via a router;

an attack detection section that detects a network attack; and

a message transmission section that transmits a message to the mobile terminal via the P2P connection section and the router,

wherein the message transmission section transmits to the mobile terminal the message indicating the ongoing network attack in response to the detection of the network attack by the attack detection section.