Information processing device and information processing method

• US 9,197,620 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2013
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Egawa, Tsunayoshi, Matsuya, Norifumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Zee, Edward
• Application Number:
  US14/020,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20150067778A1
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/16 Implementing security features at a particular protocol layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/166 at the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

An information processing device includes a reception unit and a control unit. The reception unit receives an access request including identification information of a transmission source from a terminal. The control unit acquires user information that is information about a user using the terminal based on the identification information included in the access request.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive an access request from a terminal, the access request including identification information identifying the terminal which sends the access request, wherein the reception unit receives an IPv6 packet as the access request, and wherein an authentication control unit uses a transmission source IP address set in the IPv6 packet received by the reception unit, as the identification information;

a transfer unit configured to extract a second IPv4 packet, from a first IPv4 packet including, by additional encapsulation, the IPv6 packet including, by encapsulation, the second IPv4 packet including a transfer destination IP address, and transfer the second IPv4 packet to a device corresponding to the transfer destination IP address, wherein the reception unit allows a storage unit to store history information in which the transmission source IP address included in the IPv6 packet is associated with the transfer destination IP address included in the second IPv4 packet; and

a control unit configured to acquire user information that is information about a user using the terminal based on the identification information included in the access request.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage unit is configured to store identification information of one transmission source corresponding to each application of the terminal and a log-in state of the terminal, and

wherein the authentication control unit is configured to control whether to request an authentication information to the terminal based on the log-in state stored in the storage unit by associating to the identification information included in the access request,

wherein the reception unit receives the access request including the identification information from an arbitrary application.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the authentication control unit does not request the authentication information to the terminal when the log-in state corresponding to the identification information included in the access request represents logging-in, and requests the authentication information to the terminal when the log-in state represents non-logging-in.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the reception unit receives a first packet including, by encapsulation, a second packet including the identification information, as the access request, and

wherein the authentication control unit controls whether to request the authentication information based on the log-in state corresponding to the identification information included in the second packet.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a providing unit configured to provide a service corresponding to the identification information to a user.

6. A system comprising:

an information processing device according to claim 1; and

a terminal,

wherein the terminal comprises;

a storage unit configured to store identification information of one transmission source corresponding to each application;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire the identification information from the storage unit when being accessed by any one of the applications;

a generation unit configured to generate a first packet including a second packet including the identification information; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the first packet to the information processing device.

7. An information processing method performed by an information processing device, the information processing method comprising:

receiving an access request from a terminal, the access request including identification information identifying the terminal which sends the access request, wherein in the receiving of the access request, an IPv6 packet is received as the access request;

controlling weather to request authentication information to the terminal, a transmission source IP address set in the IPv6 packet received by the receiving is used as identification information;

extracting a second IPv4 packet, from a first IPv4 packet including, by additional encapsulation, the IPv6 packet including, by encapsulation, the second IPv4 packet including a transfer destination IP address, and transferring the second IPv4 packet to a device corresponding to the transfer destination IP address, wherein in the receiving of the access request, history information in which the transmission source IP address included in the IPv6 packet is associated with the transfer destination IP address included in the second IPv4 packet is further stored in a storage unit; and

acquiring user information that is information about a user using the terminal based on the identification information included in the access request.

8. The information processing method according to claim 7, further comprising:

receiving, in the receiving of the access request, the access request including identification information of a transmission source from an arbitrary application;

acquiring, by the information processing device, a log-in state stored in the storage unit by associating to the identification information included in the access request from the storage unit storing the identification information of one transmission source corresponding to each application of the terminal and the log-in state of the terminal; and

wherein controlling whether to request authentication information to the terminal is based on the acquired log-in state.

9. The information processing method according to claim 8, wherein in the controlling whether to request the authentication information to the terminal, the authentication information is not requested to the terminal when the log-in state corresponding to the identification information included in the access request represents logging-in, and the authentication information is requested to the terminal when the log-in state represents non-logging-in.

10. The information processing method according to claim 8, wherein in the receiving of the access request, a first packet including, by encapsulation, a second packet including the identification information, as the access request is received, and

wherein in the controlling whether to request the authentication information to the terminal, whether to request the authentication information based on the log-in state corresponding to the identification information included in the second packet is controlled.

11. The information processing method according to claim 8, further comprising providing a service corresponding to the identification information to a user.

12. An information processing device comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive an access request including identification information of a transmission source from a terminal;

a control unit configured to acquire user information that is information about a user using the terminal based on the identification information included in the access request;

a storage unit configured to store identification information of one transmission source corresponding to each application of the terminal and a log-in state of the terminal;

an authentication control unit configured to control whether to request an authentication information to the terminal based on the log-in state stored in the storage unit by associating to the identification information included in the access request,

wherein the reception unit receives the access request including the identification information from an arbitrary application,

wherein the reception unit receives an IPv6 packet as the access request, and

wherein the authentication control unit uses a transmission source IP address set in the IPv6 packet received by the reception unit, as the identification information;

a transfer unit configured to extract a second IPv4 packet, from a first IPv4 packet including, by additional encapsulation, the IPv6 packet including, by encapsulation, the second IPv4 packet including a transfer destination IP address, and transfers the second IPv4 packet to a device corresponding to the transfer destination IP address,

wherein the reception unit allows the storage unit to further store history information in which the transmission source IP address included in the IPv6 packet is associated with the transfer destination IP address included in the second IPv4 packet.