INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20110202730A1
• Filed: 12/23/2010
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KAWACHI, Tsutomu, TAKADA, Masayuki, SONODA, Shuhei
• Granted Patent: US 9,065,871 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/141
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements

Abstract

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention is arranged in a client terminal connected to a server storing data via a network, wherein the information processing apparatus receives requests from one or a plurality of applications in the client terminal and controls transmission and reception of information to/from the server. The information processing apparatus includes an authentication information storage unit for storing authentication information of a user for accessing the server, and a request transmission unit for attaching the authentication information of the user of the client terminal to a request based on the request given by the application of the client terminal, and transmits the request to the server.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus arranged in a client terminal connected to a server storing data via a network,

wherein the information processing apparatus receives requests from one or a plurality of applications in the client terminal and controls transmission and reception of information to/from the server.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

an authentication information storage unit for storing authentication information of a user for accessing the server; and

a request transmission unit for attaching the authentication information of the user of the client terminal to the request based on the request given by the application of the client terminal, and transmits the request to the server.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the request received from the application includes priority information indicating a priority order of transmission to the server, and the request transmission unit transmits the request to the server based on the priority information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a request combining unit for generating an aggregate request by combining a plurality of requests when the information processing apparatus receives the plurality of requests to the server from the plurality of applications; and

a response splitting unit for splitting an aggregate response, given by the server in reply to the aggregate request, into responses corresponding to the respective requests.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the request transmission unit causes the request combining unit to combine requests having priority orders lower than the priority information, and transmits the combined request to the server.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a response accumulation unit for storing a response transmitted from the server in reply to the request transmitted by the application; and

a cache determining unit for managing the response stored in the response accumulation unit,

wherein when the cache determining unit receives a request from the application for obtaining the response accumulated in the response accumulation unit from the server, the cache determining unit obtains the response from the response accumulation unit and transmits the response to the application.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the response accumulation unit stores expiration date information, until which date the response is stored, for each of the accumulated responses, and the cache determining unit determines, based on the expiration date information, whether the response to the request transmitted from the application is to be obtained from the response accumulation unit.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a terminal state monitoring unit for determining at least whether a communication environment of the requesting terminal is good or not and a remaining battery level or a remaining memory capacity,

wherein the request transmission unit transmits the request based on a monitoring result of the requesting terminal provided by the terminal state monitoring unit.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when a predetermined text string is included in requests transmitted from the plurality of applications to the server, the request transmission unit converts the predetermined text string into information corresponding to the text string and transmits the requests to the server.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the authentication information storage unit stores authentication information of a plurality of users, and

when the request transmission unit receives the requests from the plurality of applications, the request transmission unit transmits the requests to a region of the server designated for the user who currently logs in to the client terminal.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an execution determining unit,

wherein when the request is received from the application, the execution determining unit determines, based on the application and a content of the request, whether the request can be transmitted to the server or not.

12. An information processing method for receiving requests from one or a plurality of applications in a client terminal connected to a server storing data via a network, and controlling transmission and reception of information to/from the server.

13. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as an information processing apparatus for receiving requests from one or a plurality of applications in a client terminal connected to a server storing data via a network, and controlling transmission and reception of information to/from the server.