Server apparatus

• US 20050101296A1
• Filed: 11/12/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Ando, Tomohiro, Ito, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US10/986,579
• Publication Number:
  US 20050101296A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/37 Managing security policies for mobile devices or for controlling mobile applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A server apparatus and a method are provided for managing and/or restricting communications performed by a mobile station used by an employee of a corporation, in accordance with criteria set by the corporation.

Communication management server 20 gathers communications performed by mobile station 10, including email transmission/reception and Web accesses, in accordance with a request from a corporation, and stores the communications in logs. Then, in accordance with a request from corporate terminal 30 connected to Intranet 300, communication management server 20 transmits the logs to the corporate terminal 30. Further, communication management server 20 restricts communications performed by mobile stations 10, including email transmission/reception and Web accesses, in accordance with a request from a corporation.

Claims

1. A server apparatus, comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving from a node via a network an MS-ID of a mobile station and a condition file corresponding to the mobile station; and

a delivering unit for transmitting to each mobile station via a mobile communication network the condition file received by the receiving unit corresponding to the MS-ID of the mobile station.

2. A server apparatus comprising:

a condition database in which an MS-ID and a condition file are stored for each of a plurality of mobile stations, an MS-ID being uniquely assigned to each mobile station, and the condition file specifying for each mobile station which communication performed by the mobile station is to be stored in a log at the mobile station; and

a delivering unit for transmitting to each mobile station a condition file stored in the condition database corresponding to the MS-ID of the mobile station.

3. The server apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the condition file includes at least one of an access time condition of the communication to be stored, a destination condition of the communication to be stored, and a keyword condition of the communication to be stored.

4. The server apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a log database in which a corporate ID, one or more sets of MS-IDs and employee IDs are stored for each corporation, a corporate ID being uniquely assigned to each corporation, an employee ID being assigned to a user authorized by each corporation to use a mobile station having the MS-ID; and

a receiving unit for receiving from each mobile station via a mobile communication network an MS-ID of the mobile station and the logs stored in the mobile station,

wherein the logs received from each mobile station by the receiving unit are stored in the log database corresponding to the corporate ID, the corporate ID corresponding to the MS-ID received from each mobile station in the log database, and

wherein the transmitting unit transmits logs for each mobile station stored in the log database to the mobile station having an MS-ID corresponding to the logs.

5. The server apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a storage unit for storing authentication information corresponding to an MS ID of each mobile station, the authentication data being used to access logs stored in each mobile station,

wherein the delivering unit transmits to a mobile station via the mobile communication network authentication information stored in the storage unit corresponding to an MS-ID of the mobile station.

6. A server apparatus, comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving an MS-ID and a condition file, an MS-ID being assigned to each mobile station, and a condition file specifying a restriction of communications performed by each mobile station; and

a delivering unit for transmitting to each mobile station via a mobile communication network the condition file received by the receiving unit corresponding to the MS-ID of each mobile station.

7. A server apparatus comprising:

a condition database in which an MS-ID and a condition file are stored for each mobile station, an MS-ID being uniquely assigned to each mobile station, and the condition file specifying for each mobile station which communications the mobile station is prohibited from performing; and

a delivering unit for transmitting to each mobile station a condition file stored in the condition file storage database corresponding to the MS-ID of the mobile station.

8. The server apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the condition file for each mobile station includes either at least a prohibited destination or at least an allowed destination.