INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSNIG APPARATUS, PROGRAM FOR CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROGRAM

• US 20120331077A1
• Filed: 08/27/2012
• Published: 12/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Doi, Masataka
• Granted Patent: US 9,197,447 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1425 Traffic logging, e.g. anomaly detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding

Abstract

In a case where session management information is created from request information concerning a Web-based e-mail transmitted as HTTP data, if the request information coincides with a previously defined session start event for each Web-based e-mail service, a relay server adds a new entry to the session management information. On the other hand, if the request information coincides with a previously defined data operation event for each Web-based e-mail service, the relay server updates entry data of the session management information. Consequently, an administrator can execute higher accurate mail browsing by extracting, from the request information concerning the Web-based e-mail, not only the content of the Web-based e-mail but also a mail creation start method and a transmission state of the Web-based e-mail.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An information processing apparatus that extracts a Web-based e-mail transmitted from a client apparatus to a Web-based e-mail server according to an extraction condition, for a Web-based e-mail site that provides a service for transmitting/receiving HTTP Web-based e-mails, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory adapted to store definition information, which includes a request URL included in a request concerning a Web-based e-mail generated by a client apparatus and transmitted from the client apparatus to a Web-based e-mail server on a Web-based e-mail site, and an action to be performed to obtain an input content of the Web-based e-mail of the request, and to store the obtained input content in a management table such that the definition information and the obtained input content are correlated with each other and defined;

an obtaining unit adapted to obtain the request concerning the Web-based e-mail generated by the client apparatus and transmitted to the Web-based e-mail server;

a control unit adapted to perform control to obtain the input content of the Web-based e-mail of the request by performing an action defined in definition information that includes a request URL that is same as a request URL included in the request obtained by the obtaining unit, and to perform control to store the obtained input content of the Web-based e-mail in the management table;

an accepting unit adapted to accept an input of an extraction condition corresponding to a Web-based e-mail stored in the management table; and

an extraction unit adapted to extract, from the management table, a Web-based e-mail corresponding to an extraction condition for which an input is accepted by the accepting unit.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the definition information includes discrimination information, included in the request for discriminating a data operation event of the Web-based e-mail server, and a plurality of defining information to which a plurality of different discrimination information are respectively set in regard to a Web-based e-mail site, and

the control unit performs the control to obtain the input content of the Web-based e-mail of the request by performing the action defined in the definition information when the discrimination information of the definition information is same as discrimination information included in the request obtained by the obtaining unit.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

a state of the Web-based e-mail is stored in the management table,

an action for changing the state of the Web-based e-mail can be set as the action, and,

in a case where the action for changing the state is defined in the definition information that includes a request URL that is same as the request URL included in the request obtained by the obtaining unit, the control unit performs control to store the state of the Web-based e-mail according to the action.

19. The information processing apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the extraction condition includes a state condition of the Web-based e-mail.

20. The information processing apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the extraction condition includes a time range condition of the Web-based e-mail to be extracted,

the information processing apparatus further comprises a judgment unit adapted to judge, in a case where the time range condition is set, whether or not the request obtained by the obtaining unit satisfies the time range condition according to time information included in the request obtained by the obtaining unit, and

the control unit performs the control to obtain the input content of the Web-based e-mail of the request by performing the action defined in definition information that includes a request URL that is same as a request URL included in the request obtained by the obtaining unit when the request obtained by the obtaining unit is judged by the judgment unit as satisfying the time range condition, and performs control to store the obtained input content of the Web-based e-mail in the management table.

21. The information processing apparatus according to claim 16, further comprising a generation unit adapted to generate display data for displaying list data of Web-based e-mails extracted by the extraction unit.

22. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus that extracts a Web-based e-mail transmitted from a client apparatus to a Web-based e-mail server according to an extraction condition, for a Web-based e-mail site that provides a service for transmitting/receiving HTTP Web-based e-mails, the information method comprising:

an obtaining step of obtaining a request concerning a Web-based e-mail transmitted from a client apparatus to a Web-based e-mail server;

a storage step of obtaining an input content of the Web-based e-mail of the request by performing an action defined in definition information having a request URL that is same as a request URL included in the request obtained in the obtaining step, and storing the obtained input content of the Web-based e-mail in a management table;

an accepting step of accepting an input of an extraction condition of the Web-based e-mail stored in the management table; and

an extraction step of extracting, from the management table, a Web-based e-mail corresponding to an extraction condition for which an input is accepted in the accepting step.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded records therein a program for causing a computer to perform an information processing method of an information processing apparatus that extracts a Web-based e-mail transmitted from a client apparatus to a Web-based e-mail server according to an extraction condition, for a Web-based e-mail site that provides a service for transmitting/receiving HTTP Web-based e-mails, wherein the information method includes:

an obtaining step of obtaining a request concerning a Web-based e-mail transmitted from a client apparatus to a Web-based e-mail server;

a storage step of obtaining an input content of the Web-based e-mail of the request by performing an action defined in definition information having a request URL that is same as a request URL included in the request obtained in the obtaining step, and storing the obtained input content of the Web-based e-mail in a management table;

an accepting step of accepting an input of an extraction condition of the Web-based e-mail stored in the management table; and

an extraction step of extracting, from the management table, a Web-based e-mail corresponding to an extraction condition for which an input is accepted in the accepting step.