Communication device, communication method, recording medium and program

• US 7,626,943 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2003
• Issued: 12/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakano, Takehiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah; Chirag G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thompson, Jr.; Otis L
• Application Number:
  US10/503,931
• Publication Number:
  US 20050147108A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,227 Days
• Field of Search: 713/182
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0864 Round trip delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/06 Testing, supervising or monitoring using simulated traffic

Abstract

A data transmitting apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits a check packet to a data receiving apparatus, and a control unit that receives an acknowledgement message to the check packet. The acknowledgement message includes acknowledgement information based on shared data shared with the data receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus also includes a timer configured to determine whether a response time of the acknowledgement message is less than a predetermined time and a judgment unit that judges whether a subsequent content data transmitted to the data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on a comparison result and the determination of the timer. If the acknowledgement message is not received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network and subsequent content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

Claims

1. A data transmitting apparatus comprising:

a transmitting unit connected to a first network and configured to transmit a check packet to a data receiving apparatus using a User Datagram Protocol (UDP);

a control unit configured to receive a UDP acknowledgment message to the check packet from the data receiving apparatus, the acknowledgment message including acknowledgment information based on shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

a computing unit configured to compute an expected acknowledgment information based on the shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

a comparing unit configured to produce a comparison result for said data receiving apparatus based on the acknowledgment information and the expected acknowledgment information;

a timer configured to determine whether a response time of the acknowledgment message is less than a predetermined time; and

a judgment unit configured to judge whether subsequent content data transmitted to said data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on the comparison result and the determination of the timer, if the UDP acknowledgement message is not received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network, and the subsequent data content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit is further configured to transmit a predetermined number of check packets to the data receiving apparatus.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein one of the first network and the second network is a Local Area Network (LAN) and the other is a Wide Area Network (WAN).

4. A data transmitting methods comprising:

transmitting a check packet to a data receiving apparatus using a User Datagram Protocol UDP;

receiving an acknowledgment message to the check packet from the data receiving apparatus, the acknowledgment message including acknowledgment information based on shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

computing an expected acknowledgement information based on the shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

producing a comparison result for said data receiving apparatus based on the acknowledgment information and the expected acknowledgement information;

determining whether a response time of the acknowledgment message is less than a predetermined time; and

judging whether subsequent content data transmitted to said data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on the comparison result in the producing step and the determination in the determining step, if the UDP acknowledgement message is not received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network, and the subsequent data content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising transmitting a predetermined number of check packets to the data receiving apparatus.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein one of the first network and the second network is a Local Area Network (LAN) and the other is a Wide Area Network (WAN).

7. A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions which cause a computer to execute a method of controlling a data transmission comprising:

transmitting a check packet to a data receiving apparatus using a User Datagram Protocol (UDP);

receiving a UDP acknowledgment message to the check packet from the data receiving apparatus, the acknowledgment message including acknowledgment information based on shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

computing an expected acknowledgement information based on the shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

producing a comparison result for said data receiving apparatus based on the acknowledgment information and the expected acknowledgement information;

determining whether a response time of the acknowledgment message is less than a predetermined time; and

judging whether subsequent content data transmitted to said data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on the comparison result in the producing step and the determination in the determining step, if the UDP acknowledgement message is not received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network, and the subsequent data content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, further comprising computer instructions configured to cause the computer to control transmitting a predetermined number of check packets to the data receiving apparatus.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein one of the first network and the second network is a Local Area Network (LAN) and the other is a Wide Area Network (WAN).

10. A data transmitting apparatus comprising:

means for transmitting a check packet to a data receiving apparatus using a User Datagram Protocol (UDP);

means for receiving a UDP acknowledgment message to the check packet from the data receiving apparatus, the acknowledgment message including acknowledgment information based on shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

means for computing an expected acknowledgement information based on the shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

means for producing a comparison result for said data receiving apparatus based on the acknowledgment information and the expected acknowledgement information;

means for determining whether a response time of the acknowledgment message is less than a predetermined time; and

means for judging whether subsequent content data transmitted to said data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on the comparison result and the determination of means for determining, if the UDP acknowledgement message is not received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network, and the subsequent data content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the means for transmitting is further configured to transmit a predetermined number of check packets to the data receiving apparatus.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein one of the first network and the second network is a Local Area Network (LAN) and the other is a Wide Area Network (WAN).

13. A data transmitting apparatus comprising:

a transmitting unit connected to a first network and configured to transmit a check packet to a data receiving apparatus using a Transfer Control Protocol (TCP);

a control unit configured to receive a TCP acknowledgment message to the check packet from the data receiving apparatus, the acknowledgment message including acknowledgment information based on shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

a computing unit configured to compute an expected acknowledgment information based on the shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

a comparing unit configured to produce a comparison result for said data receiving apparatus based on the acknowledgment information and the expected acknowledgment information;

a timer configured to determine whether a response time of the acknowledgment message is less than a predetermined time; and

a judgment unit configured to judge whether subsequent content data transmitted to said data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on the comparison result and the determination of the timer, if the TCP acknowledgement message is received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network, and the subsequent data content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the transmitting unit is further configured to transmit a predetermined number of check packets to the data receiving apparatus.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein one of the first network and the second network is a Local Area Network (LAN) and the other is a Wide Area Network (WAN).

16. A data transmitting method, comprising:

transmitting a check packet to a data receiving apparatus using a Transfer Control Protocol (TCP);

receiving an acknowledgment message to the check packet from the data receiving apparatus, the acknowledgment message including acknowledgment information based on shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

computing an expected acknowledgement information based on the shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

producing a comparison result for said data receiving apparatus based on the acknowledgment information and the expected acknowledgement information;

determining whether a response time of the acknowledgment message is less than a predetermined time; and

judging whether subsequent content data transmitted to said data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on the comparison result in the producing step and the determination in the determining step, if the TCP acknowledgement message is received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network, and the subsequent data content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting a predetermined number of check packets to the data receiving apparatus.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein one of the first network and the second network is a Local Area Network (LAN) and the other is a Wide Area Network (WAN).

19. A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions which cause a computer to execute a method of controlling a data transmission comprising:

transmitting a check packet to a data receiving apparatus using a Transfer Control Protocol (TCP);

receiving a TCP acknowledgment message to the check packet from the data receiving apparatus, the acknowledgment message including acknowledgment information based on shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

computing an expected acknowledgement information based on the shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

producing a comparison result for said data receiving apparatus based on the acknowledgment information and the expected acknowledgement information;

determining whether a response time of the acknowledgment message is less than a predetermined time; and

judging whether subsequent content data transmitted to said data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on the comparison result in the producing step and the determination in the determining step, if the TCP acknowledgement message is received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network, and the subsequent data content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 19, further comprising computer instructions configured to cause the computer to control transmitting a predetermined number of check packets to the data receiving apparatus.

21. The computer readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein one of the first network and the second network is a Local Area Network (LAN) and the other is a Wide Area Network (WAN).

22. A data transmitting apparatus comprising:

means for transmitting a check packet to a data receiving apparatus using a Transfer Control Protocol (TCP);

means for receiving a TCP acknowledgment message to the check packet from the data receiving apparatus, the acknowledgment message including acknowledgment information based on shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

means for computing an expected acknowledgement information based on the shared data shared with said data receiving apparatus;

means for producing a comparison result for said data receiving apparatus based on the acknowledgment information and the expected acknowledgement information;

means for determining whether a response time of the acknowledgment message is less than a predetermined time; and

means for judging whether subsequent content data transmitted to said data receiving apparatus will be limited in usage right based on the comparison result and the determination of means for determining, if the TCP acknowledgement message is received, the judgment unit determines that the data receiving apparatus is connected to the data transmitting apparatus through a second network, and the subsequent data content data transmitted is limited in usage right.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the means for transmitting is further configured to transmit a predetermined number of check packets to the data receiving apparatus.

24. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein one of the first network and the second network is a Local Area Network (LAN) and the other is a Wide Area Network (WAN).