Portable device and a method for accessing a computer resource of a temporary registered user

• US 7,464,399 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2007
• Issued: 12/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kimura, Tetsuro, Takahashi, Toshiya, Muranaga, Tetsuro
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid; Kristine
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jackson; Jenise E
• Application Number:
  US11/747,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20070209062A1
• Time in Patent Office: 579 Days
• Field of Search: 713/165, 713/183, 709/223, 709/229, 729/3
• US Class Current: 726/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

In a portable device connectable to a network system, an access right information acquisition unit acquires access right information of a computer resource assigned to a user temporarily registered to the network system from a computer which manages the computer resource in the network system. An access right information preservation unit preserves the access right information acquired by the access right information acquisition unit. A network access unit accesses the network system using the access right information preserved in the access right information preservation unit.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium storing a computer program, which when executed by a portable device, manages a portable device connectable to a network and results in performance of steps comprising:

acquiring access right information of a computer resource assigned to a user temporarily registered to the network system, from a computer which manages the computer resource in the network system;

preserving the access right information acquired;

a third program code to access the network system using the access right information preserved;

sending a temporary registration request to the computer in response to a request of temporary registration from the user;

sending an extension registration request to the computer in response to a request of extension of a use period of the computer resource from the user, when a message that the present time is near the end of the use period and asking whether the user postpones the use period is received from the computer; and

receiving a message that use of the computer resources is completed form the computer, if the extension registration request is not sent.

2. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

sending a user name to the computer in response to an input of user name from the user, when a user identifier assigned to the user and a request that the user input the user name are received from the computer.

3. The computer readable medium according to claim 2, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

sending another user name to the computer in response to an input of another user name from the user, when a request that the user inputs another user name is received from the computer.

4. The computer readable medium according to claim 2, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

sending a password to the computer in response to an input of the password from the user, when a message that the user name is registered and a request that the user inputs the password are received from the computer.

5. The computer readable medium according to claim 4, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

receiving a message that the password is registered and a home directory representing an address of the computer resource is newly created from the computer, after sending the password to the computer.

6. The computer readable medium according to claim 5, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

receiving a group identifier representing an access right of the computer resource and a use period of the computer resource from the computer.

7. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

sending an extension registration request to the computer in response to a request of extension of the use period from the user, when a message that the user period of the computer resource expired and asking whether the user postpones the use period is received from the computer.

8. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

a program code to receive a message that use of the computer resource is complete from the computer, if the extension registration request is not sent.

9. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

a program code to send a request of the access right information and the user name in response to a request of download of the access right information from the user.

10. The computer readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

a program code to receive the access right information corresponding to the user name from the computer, the access right information including the user identifier and the group identifier.

11. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

a program code to store a file, access right information being previously assigned to the file in a memory.

12. The computer readable medium according to claim 11, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

a program code to change the access right information of the file to the access right information of the computer resource in case of accessing the computer resource in the network system using the file, if the access right information of the file is different form the access right information of the computer resource received form the computer.

13. The computer readable medium according to claim 11, wherein

the file is the computer resource assigned to the user.

14. The computer readable medium according to claim 11, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

receiving the access right information including the home directory representing that the computer resource is the file in the memory, after sending a request of the access right information to the computer.

15. The computer readable medium according to claim 14, wherein the computer program when executed results in performance of further steps comprising:

changing the access right information of the computer resource to the access right information of the file in case of accessing the computer resource in the memory, if the access right information of the file is different from the access right information of the computer resource received from the computer.