DEVICE DETECTION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

• US 20120134297A1
• Filed: 11/03/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: SAKAMOTO, Takuya
• Application Number:
  US13/288,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20120134297A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51

Abstract

A device detection apparatus includes a multicast detection unit that uses multicast to detect a device and records address information of the detected device in a first storage unit while being associated with identification information of a currently connected network segment; and a unicast detection unit that detects the device related to the address information associated with the identification information which is different from the identification information of the currently connected network segment among the address information recorded in the first storage unit.

Claims

1. A device detection apparatus comprising:

a multicast detection unit that uses multicast to detect a device and records address information of the detected device in a first storage unit while being associated with identification information of a currently connected network segment; and

a unicast detection unit that detects the device related to the address information associated with the identification information which is different from the identification information of the currently connected network segment among the address information recorded in the first storage unit.

2. The device detection apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second storage unit that stores device information which is included in a response replied from the detected device and includes a validity time limit; and

a deletion unit that deletes the device information when the validity time limit elapses, from the second storage unit,

wherein the unicast detection unit invalidates the validity time limit of the device information included in the response replied from the device and records the device information in the second storage unit.

3. The device detection apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a permit denial information storage unit that stores information indicating a permit or denial of a detection of the device for each of the identification information of the network segments; and

a determination unit that determines the permit or denial of the detection of the device based on the permit denial information stored in the permit denial information storage unit related to the identification information of the currently connected network segment,

wherein the unicast detection unit detects the device when the determination unit determines that the detection is permitted.

4. The device detection apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a group information storage unit that stores information indicating a group for classifying the network segment for each of the identification information of the network segments; and

an extraction unit that obtains identification information of the network segment belonging to the same group as the currently connected network segment from the group information storage unit and extracts the address information associated with the obtained identification information from the first storage unit,

wherein the unicast detection unit detects the device related to the address information associated with the identification information different from the identification information of the currently connected network segment among the address information extracted by the extraction unit.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

using multicast to detect a device and recording address information of the detected device in a first storage unit while being associated with identification information of a currently connected network segment; and

detecting the device related to the address information associated with the identification information which is different from the identification information of the currently connected network segment among the address information recorded in the first storage unit.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 5, further comprising:

deleting from a second storage unit that stores device information which is included in a response replied from the detected device and includes a validity time limit, the device information when the validity time limit elapses,

wherein the process of detecting the device includes invalidating the validity time limit of the device information included in the response replied from the device and recording the device information in the second storage unit.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 5, further comprising:

using a permit denial information storage unit that stores information indicating a permit or denial of a detection of the device for each of the identification information of the network segments related to the identification information of the currently connected network segment and determining the permit or denial of the detection,

wherein the process of detecting the device includes detecting the device when it is determined that the detection is permitted.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 5, further comprising:

obtaining, from a group information storage unit that stores information indicating a group for classifying the network segment for each of the identification information of the network segments, identification information of the network segment belonging to the same group as the currently connected network segment from the group information storage unit and extracting the address information associated with the obtained identification information from the first storage unit,

wherein the process of detecting the device includes detecting the device related to the address information associated with the identification information different from the identification information of the currently connected network segment among the extracted address information.