Information processing apparatus, method, and program

• US 9,325,743 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2011
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nitta, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Chea, Philip
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Van Kim T
• Application Number:
  US13/164,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20120005373A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,772 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store a first group of character strings each of which corresponds to a header name defined in accordance with a communication protocol for communication, a second group of character strings each of which corresponds to a character string that is obtained by converting the character strings of the first group into lower case letters or upper case letters, and a third group of character strings each of which is not identical to any of the character strings of the first group, the character strings of the third group being extracted from a signal received; an extracting unit configured to extract a header value from another signal received from the other communication apparatus when a header name included in the other signal is identical to any character string of the first group, or the third group, or the second group.

Claims

1. An apparatus that identifies a setting in a communication complying with a specific rule from a received signal on a basis of an identifier that is defined in the specific rule and associated with the setting, the apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory and configured to;

associate a first character string in a first received signal with the identifier in a case that converted characters of the first character string, which are generated by converting at least one of characters of the first character string by one of capitalization and lowercase conversions, are identical to characters of the identifier;

determine whether a second character string in a second received signal corresponds to the identifier, in a case that characters of the second character string are identical to the characters of the first character string associated with the identifier, wherein

the second received signal is received after the first received signal, and

the characters of the identifier to be identical to the converted characters of the first character string are converted characters of the identifier which are generated by converting the characters of the identifier by at least one of the capitalization and the lowercase conversions;

extract a header name from the received signal; and

determine whether the extracted header name exists in a table, wherein

in a case where the extracted header name is determined to not exist in the table, the processor is further configured to;

identify a source from the received signal, and

determine whether another table corresponding to the identified source exists in another memory, and

in a case where the extracted header name is determined to exist in the table, the processor is further configured to;

analyze a header value corresponding to the extracted header name, and

store a result of the analysis.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein all characters of the converted characters of the first character string and all of the characters of the converted characters of the identifier are one of uppercase letters and lowercase letters.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the second character string in the second received signal corresponds to the identifier, in a case that the characters of the second character string are identical to the characters of the first character string associated with the identifier, with consideration for lowercase letters and uppercase letters in each of the characters of the first character string and in each of the characters of the second character string.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the memory is further configured to:

store a first association between the identifier and the characters of the identifier, and

determine whether the characters of the second character string are identical to the characters of the identifier on a basis of the first association.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine whether the characters of the second character string are identical to the characters of the identifier before determining whether the characters of the second character string correspond to the characters of the first character string, and

determine whether the characters of the second character string correspond to the characters of the first character string, in a case that the characters of the second character string are determined to not be identical to the characters of the identifier.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

convert the characters of the second character string to converted characters of the second character string by at least one of the capitalization and the lowercase conversions in a case that the character of the second character string is not identical to the characters of the first character string; and

determine whether the second character string corresponds to the identifier in a case that the converted characters of the second character string are identical to the converted characters of the identifier.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to associate the second character string with the identifier, in a case that the converted characters of the second character string are identical to the converted characters of the identifier.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the memory is further configured to:

store a second association between the identifier and the converted characters of the identifier, and

determine whether the converted characters of the second character string are identical to the converted characters of the identifier on a basis of the second association.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

store a third association between the identifier and the characters of the first character string in the memory, in a case that the converted characters of the first string are identical to the characters of the identifier, and

determine whether the characters of the second character string are identical to the characters of the first character string associated with the identifier on a basis of the third association.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to store the third association in respective communication apparatus that communicates with the apparatus.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the specific rule is a specific communication protocol.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the specific communication protocol is Session Initiation Protocol,

the identifier is a header name defined on a basis of the Session Initiation Protocol, and

the setting is a header value associated with the header name.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first character string is at a specific position in the first received signal.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein

the first received signal is recognized as a text,

the specific position is between a line break and a colon in the text, and

the first character string is between the line break and the colon in the text.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first received signal is a communication request that is transmitted from a first communication apparatus to establish a communication with a second communication apparatus.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the apparatus relays a signal between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a program, which when executed by a computer that identifies a setting in a communication complying with a specific rule from a received signal on a basis of an identifier that is defined in the specific rule and associated with the setting, causes the computer to:

associate a first character string in a first received signal with the identifier in a case that converted characters of the first character string, which are generated by converting at least one of characters of the first character string by one of capitalization and lowercase conversions, are identical to characters of the identifier;

determine whether a second character string in a second received signal corresponds to the identifier, in a case that characters of the second character string are identical to the characters of the first character string associated with the identifier, wherein

the second received signal is received after the first received signal, and

the characters of the identifier to be identical to the converted characters of the first character string are converted characters of the identifier which are generated by converting the characters of the identifier by at least one of the capitalization and the lowercase conversions;

extract a header name from the received signal; and

determine whether the extracted header name exists in a table, wherein

in a case where the extracted header name is determined to not exist in the table, the program further causes the computer to;

identify a source from the received signal, and

determine whether another table corresponding to the identified source exists in another memory, and

in a case where the extracted header name is determined to exist in the table, the program further causes the computer to;

analyze a header value corresponding to the extracted header name, and

store a result of the analysis.

18. A method of identifying a setting in a communication complying with a specific rule from a received signal on a basis of an identifier that is defined in the specific rule and associated with the setting, the method comprising:

associating a first character string in a first received signal with the identifier in a case that converted characters of the first character string, which are generated by converting at least one of characters of the first character string by one of capitalization and lowercase conversions, are identical to characters of the identifier;

determining whether a second character string in a second received signal corresponds to the identifier, in a case that characters of the second character string are identical to the characters of the first character string associated with the identifier, wherein

the second received signal is received after the first received signal, and

the characters of the identifier to be identical to the converted characters of the first character string are converted characters of the identifier which are generated by converting the characters of the identifier by at least one of the capitalization and the lowercase conversions;

extracting a header name from the received signal;

determining whether the extracted header name exists in a table, wherein

in a case where the extracted header name is determined to not exist in the table, the method further comprises;

identifying a source from the received signal, and

determining whether another table corresponding to the identified source exists in another memory, and

in a case where the extracted header name is determined to exist in the table, the method further comprises;

analyzing a header value corresponding to the extracted header name, and

storing a result of the analysis.