Information processing device and program

• US 8,478,869 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ohara, Kiyotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): BEHARRY, NOEL R
• Application Number:
  US11/480,427
• Publication Number:
  US 20070011326A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,554 Days
• Field of Search: 709/245, 709/225
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/251 between different IP versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/167 Adaptation for transition between two IP versions, e.g. between IPv4 and IPv6 translation of Internet protocol [IP] addresses H04L61/2503

Abstract

An information processing device communicable with a server device and a name resolution server includes a sending and receiving system that sends a device name of the server device to the name resolution server, and receives an IP address corresponding to the device name from the name resolution server, an IP address storing system that stores at least one IP address, an access system that accesses application programs stored in the server device, an access control system that controls the access system to access the application programs according to the at least one IP address, a communication protocol storing system that stores the communication protocol corresponding to the IP address used for a previous access, and an access control instructing system that instructs the access control system to control the access system to access the application programs according to the at least one IP address.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a communication interface configured communicable with a server device and a name resolution server,

the server device being configured to store an operation system configured communicable based upon an IPv4 communication protocol and an IPv6 communication protocol and two or more application programs configured operable on the operation system,

the name resolution server being configured to store an IPv4 address and IPv6 address that enable communication on the operation system of the server device and a device name of the server device associated with each other, and upon receiving the device name from a requesting source requesting an IP address send the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address corresponding to the received device name to the requesting source;

a sending and receiving system, executed by a computer, configured to send the device name of the server device to the name resolution server, and receive the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address corresponding to the device name that are to be sent from the name resolution server;

an IP address storing memory configured to store the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address received by the sending and receiving system;

an access system, executed by the computer, configured to access the application programs of the server device;

an access control system, executed by the computer, configured to control the access system to access the application programs of the server device according to the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address stored in the IP address storing memory;

a communication protocol storing memory configured to store one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol that corresponds to one of the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address used for a previous successful access by the access system to a corresponding one of the application programs of the server device, for each of the application programs of the server device; and

an access control instructing system, executed by the computer, configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access a corresponding one of the application programs of the server device in accordance with the one of the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address stored in the IP address storing memory that corresponds to the one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol stored in the communication protocol storing memory,

wherein the access control instructing system is configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access an application program of the server device again using one of the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address corresponding to one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol different from the one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol stored in the communication protocol storing memory, in response to the application program of the server device being inaccessible in accordance with the one of the IPv4 address and the iPv6 address corresponding to the one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol stored in the communication protocol storing memory.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a priority assigning system, executed by the computer, configured to assign a priority to each of the IPv4 and IPv6 communication protocols used for the access system accessing the application programs of the server device, and store the priority; and

a judging system, executed by the computer, configured to judge whether a past performance condition determined from a previous access, or the previous access and a present access performed by the access system satisfies a predetermined condition, prior to the present access,

wherein the access control instructing system is configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access the application program of the server device in accordance with the one of the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address corresponding to the one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol stored in the communication protocol storing memory, in response to the judging system judging that the past performance condition does not satisfy the predetermined condition, and

wherein the access control instructing system is configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to sequentially access the application program of the server device in accordance with the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address in the order from an IP address corresponding to a communication protocol to which the priority assigning system has assigned a higher priority, in response to the judging system judging that the past performance condition satisfies the predetermined condition.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined condition includes a condition that a predetermined time period has elapsed between the present access and the previous access.

4. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions readable by a computer comprising a communication interlace configured communicable with a server device and a name resolution server,

the server device being configured to store an operation system configured communicable based upon an IPv4 communication protocol and IPv6 communication protocol and two or more application programs configured operable on the operation system,

the name resolution server being configured to store an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address that enable communication on the operation system of the server device and a device name of the server device associated with each other, and upon receiving the device name from a requesting source requesting an IP address, send the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address corresponding to the received device name to the requesting source,

the instructions, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to serve as:

a sending and receiving system configured to send the device name of the server device to the name resolution server, and receive the IPv4 address and IPv6 address corresponding to the device name that are to be sent from the name resolution server;

an IP address storing system configured to store the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address received by the sending and receiving system;

an access system configured to access the application programs of the server device;

an access control system configured to control the access system to access the application programs of the server device according to the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address stored in the IP address storing system;

a communication protocol storing system configured to store one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol that corresponds to one of the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address used for a previous successful access by the access system to a corresponding one of the application programs of the server device, for each of the application programs of the server device; and

an access control instructing system configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access a corresponding one of the application programs of the server device in accordance with the one of the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address stored in the IP address storing system that corresponds to the one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol stored in the communication protocol storing system,

wherein the access control instructing system is configured to instruct the access control system to control the access system to access an application program of the server device again using one of the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address corresponding to one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol different from the one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol stored in the communication protocol storing system, in response to the application program of the server device being inaccessible in accordance with the one of the IPv4 address and the IPv6 address corresponding to the one of the IPv4 communication protocol and the IPv6 communication protocol stored in the communication protocol storing memory.