Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

• US 9,389,812 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2013
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoda, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Pachol, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US14/043,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20140268218A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,015 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/121 Facilitating exception or error detection and recovery, e.g. fault, media or consumables depleted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1818 Adaptations for accepting data from more than one source managing interfaces G06K15/4045
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/4045 Managing the interface to the data source, e.g. choosing an interface for data reception

Abstract

An information processing device includes a first communication interface, a second communication interface, a detecting unit, and a controller. The detecting unit detects a notification received by the first communication interface. In a case where the detecting unit detects a notification transmitted from the second communication interface to a communication medium connected to the second communication interface and indicating that a device serving as a transmission source has been connected to the communication medium, the controller performs control so that communication is not performed by at least one of the first communication interface and the second communication interface.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a first communication interface connected to a first communication medium, wherein the first communication medium comprises a first local area network, and wherein the first communication interface is a connection to the first local area network;

a second communication interface connected to a second communication medium, wherein the second communication medium comprises a second local area network that is different from the first local area network, and wherein the second communication interface is a connection to the second local area network;

a notification transmitting unit that transmits a connection notification indicating that the first communication interface has been connected to the first communication medium and indicating that a device serving as a transmission source has been connected to the first communication medium;

a detecting unit that detects whether the connection notification transmitted from the first communication interface has been received by the second communication interface via the second communication medium; and

a controller that, in response to the detecting unit detecting that the connection notification has been transmitted from the first communication interface to the second communication medium connected to the second communication interface, receives a communication halt notification, from the notification transmitting unit, so that communication is not performed by at least one of the first communication interface and the second communication interface,

wherein the notification transmitting unit and the detecting unit are operable on the controller.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the detecting unit detects, while communication is being performed by the first communication interface, a notification transmitted from the second communication interface to the communication medium connected to the second communication interface and indicating that a device serving as a transmission source has been connected to the communication medium, the controller performs control so that communication is not performed by the second communication interface.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the detecting unit detects a notification transmitted from the second communication interface to the communication medium connected to the second communication interface and indicating that a device serving as a transmission source has been connected to the communication medium, the controller performs control so that communication is not performed by the first communication interface nor by the second communication interface.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the first communication medium and second communication medium are separate from each other.

5. An information processing method comprising:

detecting a connection notification, transmitted by a first communication interface connected to a first communication medium and received by a second communication interface connected to a second communication medium, indicating that the first communication interface has been connected to the first communication medium and indicating that a device serving as a transmission source has been connected to the first communication medium, wherein the first communication medium comprises a first local area network, wherein the first communication interface is a connection to the first local area network, and wherein the second communication medium comprises a second local area network that is different from the first local area network, and wherein the second communication interface is a connection to the second local area network; and

in response to detecting that the connection notification has been transmitted from the first communication interface to the second communication medium connected to the second communication interface, receiving a communication halt notification to perform control, by a computer, so that communication is not performed by at least one of the first communication interface and the second communication interface.

6. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

detecting a connection notification, transmitted by a first communication interface connected to a first communication medium and received by a second communication interface connected to a second communication medium, indicating that the first communication interface has been connected to the first communication medium and indicating that a device serving as a transmission source has been connected to the first communication medium, wherein the first communication medium comprises a first local area network, wherein the first communication interface is a connection to the first local area network, and wherein the second communication medium comprises a second local area network that is different from the first local area network, and wherein the second communication interface is a connection to the second local area network; and

in response to detecting that the connection notification has been transmitted from the first communication interface to the second communication medium connected to the second communication interface, receiving a communication halt notification to perform control, by a computer, so that communication is not performed by at least one of the first communication interface and the second communication interface.