COMMUNICATING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING COMMUNICATION OVER IP NETWORK BY USING SIP, CONTROLLING METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120005744A1
• Filed: 07/01/2011
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: YOKOKURA, Hidenori
• Granted Patent: US 8,453,230 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1458 Denial of Service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1079 of unsolicited session attempts, e.g. SPIT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]

Abstract

A communicating apparatus that is able to perform IP-FAX communication without making the user aware of the attack and without any difficulty, even if the device recognizes a DoS attack or the like. communication that uses a SIP server on a network is performed by a communicating unit. Unauthorized communication from the communication performed by the communicating unit is detected. A port number of a receiving port of the communicating unit is changed when the unauthorized communication is detected. it is determined whether or not the detected unauthorized communication has passed through the SIP server. The communicating apparatus is controlled to request the SIP server to delete the port number of the receiving port that has not been changed yet if it is determined that the unauthorized communication has passed through the SIP server and to re-register on the SIP server a port number of a receiving port that has been changed if it is determined that the unauthorized communication has bypassed the SIP server.

Claims

1. A communicating apparatus comprising:

a communicating unit configured to perform communication that uses a SIP server on a network;

a detecting unit configured to detect unauthorized communication from the communication performed by said communicating unit;

a changing unit configured to change a port number of a receiving port of said communicating unit when said detecting unit detects the unauthorized communication;

a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the unauthorized communication detected by said detecting unit has passed through the SIP server; and

a controlling unit configured to control the device to request the SIP server to delete the port number of the receiving port that has not been changed yet by said changing unit if said determining unit determines that the unauthorized communication has passed through the SIP server and to re-register on the SIP server a port number of a receiving port that has been changed by said changing unit if said determining unit determines that the unauthorized communication has bypassed the SIP server.

2. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said controlling unit further requests the SIP server to filter communication from a device performing the unauthorized communication.

3. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if said controlling unit requests the SIP server to delete the port number of the receiving port that has not been changed yet by said changing unit, said controlling unit re-registers, after a predetermined time set has passed, the port number of the receiving port that has been changed by said changing unit on the SIP server.

4. The communicating apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising an operating unit configured to allow a user or an administrator to change a setting of the predetermined time.

5. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a notifying unit configured to notify a user or an administrator if said detecting unit detects unauthorized communication.

6. The communicating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein if said detecting unit detects unauthorized communication again after said changing unit changes the port number of the receiving port, said notifying unit disables the receiving port before notifying the user or the administrator.

7. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said changing unit changes the port number of the receiving port by referring to pre-stored table information.

8. A controlling method for a communicating apparatus including a communicating unit configured to perform communication that uses a SIP server on a network, the method comprising:

a detecting step of detecting unauthorized communication from the communication performed by said communicating unit;

a changing step of changing a port number of a receiving port of said communicating unit when the unauthorized communication is detected in said detecting step;

a determining step of determining whether or not the unauthorized communication detected in said detecting step has passed through the SIP server; and

a controlling step of controlling the device to request the SIP server to delete the port number of the receiving port that has not been changed yet in said changing step if it is determined in said determining step that the unauthorized communication has passed through the SIP server, and to re-register on the SIP server a port number of a receiving port that has been changed in said changing step, if it is determined in said determining step that the unauthorized communication has bypassed the SIP server.

9. A program for allowing a computer to implement the method according to claim 8, the method controlling a communicating apparatus.