Terminal control apparatus and terminal control method

• US 20060099847A1
• Filed: 10/28/2005
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshikawa, Takashi, Nakagawa, Tomohiro, Fujimoto, Hiroshi, Kinno, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 7,845,010 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/426
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display

Abstract

A terminal control apparatus includes a fragility detection unit, a control content decision unit, a terminal information registration unit, a terminal specifying unit and a control content notification unit. The terminal specifying unit specifies, based on the fragility information and the terminal information acquired by the terminal information registration unit, a terminal device to be affected by the fragility of the program. The control content notification unit notifies the control contents to the terminal device specified by the terminal specifying unit.

Claims

1. A terminal control apparatus, comprising:

a fragility detection unit which detects fragility information concerning fragility of a program;

a control content decision unit which decides control contents of an operation of a terminal device based on the fragility information;

a terminal information registration unit which acquires terminal information concerning the terminal device;

a terminal specifying unit which specifies, based on the fragility information and the terminal information acquired by the terminal information registration unit, a terminal device to be affected by the fragility of the program; and

a control content notification unit which notifies the control contents to the terminal device specified by the terminal specifying unit.

2. The terminal control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the fragility detection unit verifies correctness of the detected fragility information, and

the control content decision unit decides the control contents based on the fragility information determined to have the correctness by the verification.

3. The terminal control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the terminal specifying unit specifies a terminal in which the program has been updated, and

the control content decision unit decides the control contents in response to the update of the program.

4. The terminal control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control content decision unit decides at least one of the control contents regarding a system call, the control contents regarding hardware, and the control contents regarding middleware.

5. The terminal control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the fragility information is at least one of contents of the fragility, a situation where the fragility occurs, an operating system to be affected by the fragility, hardware to be affected by the fragility, middleware to be affected by the fragility, and a degree of severity of the fragility.

6. The terminal control apparatus according to clam 1,

wherein the terminal information is at least one of an operating system provided in the terminal device, hardware provided in the terminal device, middleware provided in the terminal device, a program owned by the terminal device, update timing of the program in the terminal device, notification timing of the control contents to the terminal device, and the notified control contents.

7. A terminal control method, comprising:

detecting fragility information concerning fragility of a program;

deciding control contents of an operation of a terminal device based on the fragility information;

acquiring terminal information concerning the terminal device;

specifying, based on the fragility information and the acquired terminal information, a terminal device to be affected by the fragility of the program; and

notifying the control contents to the specified terminal device.