Control system and control method, method and apparatus for processing information, information processing terminal and method thereof, storage medium, and program

• US 9,100,367 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2011
• Issued: 08/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Akashika, Hideki, Oshima, Takuya, Suzuki, Tadashi, Miura, Atsushi, Ota, Toyokazu, Hirano, Yoshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): STRANGE, AARON N
• Application Number:
  US13/279,927
• Publication Number:
  US 20120042043A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,380 Days
• Field of Search: 709/208, 709/223, 709/224, 709/227
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• 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 9/3234 involving additional secure or trusted devices, e.g. TPM, smartcard, USB or software token network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using an additional device in a packet data network H04L63/0853

Abstract

A client (such as a PC, portable telephone, PDA, electrical appliances), to which a device such as a IC card is connected, starts a handshake protocol to request a server to start communication. When communication is established via the handshake protocol, the initiative of communication is transferred to the server, and the state changes into a neutral state. In this neutral state, a control packet including a particular number of messages and a finished message is transmitted from the server to the client. If the client receives the control packet, the client performs a process according to the messages included in the control packet. This makes it possible to remotely control a device via a network in a highly reliable and efficient manner.

Claims

1. An information terminal, comprising:

a communication device configured to perform a first communication using electromagnetic induction;

communication circuitry configured to send to an information processing apparatus a request for establishing a second communication via a network, and to receive a script for controlling the communication device and a plurality of messages from the information processing apparatus via the second communication established in response to the request, each message having an indication of whether a failed processing of the message is to continue with a processing of another message; and

control circuitry configured to control the communication device in accordance with the script received by the communication circuitry,

wherein the information terminal determines what process to perform next based on the script and a result of a previous process in the script, the result at least indicating a successful processing or a failed processing, and a response is sent back to the information processing apparatus after completion of processes according to the script that was transmitted from the information processing apparatus to the information terminal.

2. The information terminal according to claim 1, wherein identification information is assigned to the communication device.

3. The information terminal according to claim 2, wherein the communication circuitry is further configured to send the identification information, and the script includes the identification information.

4. The information terminal according to claim 3, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to control the communication device corresponding to the identification information.

5. The information terminal according to claim 1, wherein a set-property message is transmitted from the information processing apparatus to the communication device, the set-property message configured to set a property of the communication device.

6. The information terminal according to claim 5, wherein a property-set message is sent from the communication device to the information processing apparatus, the property-set message is a response to the set-property message.

7. The information terminal according to claim 6, wherein the property-set message includes a flag indicating whether or not a process set by the set-property message has been successfully performed by the communication device.

8. The information terminal according to claim 5, wherein a get-property message is transmitted from the information processing apparatus to the communication device to acquire the property of the communication device.

9. The information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the communication device is a reader/writer.

10. The information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information terminal is a mobile phone.

11. A communication method for an information terminal, the method comprising:

performing, with a communication device of the information terminal, a first communication using electromagnetic induction;

sending, with communication circuitry of the information terminal, a request for establishing a second communication to an information processing apparatus via a network;

receiving, with the communication circuitry, a script for controlling the communication device and a plurality of messages from the information processing apparatus via the second communication established in response to the request, each message having an indication of whether a failed processing of the message is to continue with a processing of another message;

controlling, with control circuitry of the information terminal, the communication device in accordance with the script received by the communication circuitry;

determining, with the information terminal, what process to perform next based on the script and a result of a previous process in the script, the result at least indicating a successful processing or a failed processing; and

sending a response back to information processing apparatus after completion of processes according to the script that was transmitted from the information processing apparatus to the information terminal.

12. The communication method according to claim 11, further comprising:

assigning identification information to the communication device.

13. The communication method according to claim 12, further comprising:

sending, by the communication circuitry, the identification information.

14. The communication method according to claim 13, further comprising:

controlling the communication device corresponding to the identification information with the control circuitry.

15. The communication method according to claim 12, wherein the script includes the identification information.