Network data transfer method

• US 7,437,442 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2002
• Issued: 10/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Ashiya, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pwu; Jeffrey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nooristany; Sulaiman
• Application Number:
  US10/532,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,157 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 370/401
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/029 Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99954 Version management

Abstract

A network data-transfer method of transferring data from a server on a network to a network-connected equipment without having a user interface to make the network-connected equipment perform a processing includes relaying an access between the server and a client to represent for the access by the network-connected equipment; creating a transfer-data to be transferred to the client as a response to the access to the server at the relaying by putting a processing data for the network-connected equipment in the transfer-data; and a transfer-data processing by the network-connected equipment, the transfer-data processing including acquiring the transfer-data created at the creating, extracting the processing data from the transfer-data, and processing the processing data extracted.

Claims

1. A network data-transfer method of transferring data from a server on a network to a network-connected equipment wherein the network-connected equipment which does not have a user interface performs a processing, the network data-transfer method comprising:

relaying an access from a client to the server for the network-connected equipment to perform the processing;

creating a transfer-data to be transferred to the client as a response to the access to the server at the relaying, wherein the transfer-data includes a processing data for the network-connected equipment; and

a transfer-data processing by the network-connected equipment, the transfer-data processing including acquiring the transfer-data created at the creating of the transfer data, extracting the processing data from the transfer-data, and performing a processing on the extracted processing data,

wherein the creating includes putting, when the server transfers markup language format data to the network-connected equipment as a response to the access, a predetermined special-character string for identification indicating a data area where processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is described in a comment portion in a comment tag of the markup language format data; and

putting the processing-data in a data area indicated by the special-character string for identification, and

wherein the transfer-data processing includes

a data extracting including obtaining the markup language format data from the server, monitoring the special-character string for identification in the markup language format data, and extracting the processing-data located in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification; and

processing the processing-data extracted at the data extracting by the network-connected equipment based on a type of the processing-data.

2. The network data-transfer method according to claim 1, wherein the putting the processing-data includes putting a text format file to be processed by the network-connected equipment in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

3. The network data-transfer method according to claim 1, wherein the putting the processing-data in the data area indicated by the special-character string includes putting setup data for the network-connected equipment to be processed by the network-connected equipment in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

4. The network data-transfer method according to claim 1, wherein the putting the processing-data in the data area indicated by the special-character string includes putting a script that causes the network-connected equipment to perform an execution in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

5. The network data-transfer method according to claim 1, wherein the putting the processing-data in the data area indicated by the special-character string includes putting position data of a file to be processed by the network-connected equipment on the network in the data area indicated by the special-character string for identification.

6. The network data-transfer method according to claim 2, wherein the data extracting includes, when the processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is a text format file, extracting the file, and

wherein the processing the processing-data includes storing the extracted file.

7. The network data-transfer method according to claim 3, wherein the data extracting includes, when the processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is the setup data for the network-connected equipment, extracting the setup data, and

wherein the processing the processing-data includes setting up the network-connected equipment based on the extracted setup data.

8. The network data-transfer method according to claim 4, wherein the data extracting includes, when the processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is the script, extracting the script, and

wherein the processing the processing data includes processing the processing data based on the script.

9. The network data-transfer method according to claim 5, wherein the data extracting includes, when the processing-data to be processed by the network-connected equipment is a text format file, extracting the position data, extracting the position data, and

wherein the processing the processing-data includes, based on the extracted position data, acquiring the file to be processed by the network-connected equipment from the network, and storing the file.