ACCOUNT SERVER AND NETWORK ACCESS METHOD USING THE SAME

• US 20110296491A1
• Filed: 03/11/2011
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hoshino, Kiyoshi, Nakahara, Shinichi, Morohoshi, Toshihiro
• Application Number:
  US13/046,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20110296491A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an account server includes a first communication module, a second communication module, a database, and a controller. The first communication module receives a logon request from an electronic device, and establishes a session with the device. The second communication module obtains data from a service site connected to a network. The database associatively stores data for identifying electronic devices, data for identifying and accessing service sites, and names of services. The controller receives a service name from an electronic device which is established a session, obtains data from a service site by using data for identifying and accessing the site, and sends the data to the electronic device which is established a session.

Claims

1. An account server comprising:

a first communication module configured to;

selective and communicably connect to a plurality of electronic devices given the same device-identification data,

receive a logon request accompanied by device-identification data from a designated electronic device, and

establish a session with the electronic device when the device-identification data is authenticated;

a second communication module configured to;

selectively and communicably connect to a plurality of service sites connected to a network,

logs onto a designated service site by using access-identification data set for each service site, and

get data from the service site;

a database configured to register device-identification data given to the electronic devices, access-identification data set for each service site, and service names provided by the service sites in association with each other;

a controller configured to;

receive a request to get service by a service name from an electronic device having a session established by the first communication module,

get access-identification data for accessing a service site providing the service of the service name from the database,

receive data by logging onto the service site by the second communication module, and

send the received data to the electronic device having the session established by the first communication module; and

an issuing module configured to;

receive a request to get service by a service name from an electronic device having a session established b the first communication module, and

automatically issue tentative access-identification data, when access-identification data for accessing a service site providing the service of the service name is not registered in the database.

3. The account server of claim 1, wherein the issuing module is configured to automatically issue other tentative access-identification data, when an object service site is not logged onto by using issued tentative access-identification data.

4. The account server of claim 1, wherein the issuing module is configured to automatically issue tentative access-identification data, based on rules of issuing access-identification data for accessing service sites connected to the network.

5. The account server of claim 1, wherein the database is configured to register self-diagnostic data of the electronic devices in association with the data to identify the electronic devices.

6. The account server of claim 1, wherein the database is configured to register programmed recording data set for the electronic devices in association with the data to identify the electronic devices.

7. The account server of claim 6, wherein programmed recording data of a designated electronic device registered in the database is recorded by selecting another electronic device.

2. (canceled)

8. (canceled)