INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM

• US 20170085572A1
• Filed: 01/07/2016
• Published: 03/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Miyakawa, Osamu, Matsuo, Hitoshi, HAMANO, Shinsuke
• Granted Patent: US 10,009,331 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0807 using tickets, e.g. Kerberos cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using tickets or tokens H04L9/3213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

An information processing device including: a connection setting retaining unit which retains a connection setting of a connection to an access point that relays communication to a network for each access point; an access permission retaining unit which retains a token for using a service provided by a server on the network; a determining unit which determines whether or not the connection setting is a connection setting having been set using a tool that enables the connection setting and a usage setting of the service to be set in a series of procedures; and a service using unit which uses the service using the token in a communication relayed by an access point related to a connection setting determined to be a connection setting having been set using the tool.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a connection setting retaining unit to retain a connection setting of a connection to a relay point that relays communication to a network for each relay point;

an access permission retaining unit to retain an access permission for using a prescribed service provided by a server on the network;

a determining unit to determine whether or not the connection setting is a connection setting having been set using a tool that enables the connection setting and a usage setting of the prescribed service to be set in a series of procedures; and

a service using unit to use the prescribed service using the access permission in a communication relayed by a relay point related to a connection setting determined to be a connection setting having been set using the tool.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the connection setting further includes a service usage setting indicating whether or not the prescribed service is to be used, and

the determining unit determines whether or not the connection setting is a connection setting set using the tool by referring to the service usage setting.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising

a service validating unit to validate the service usage setting in the connection setting when the connection setting is a connection setting set using the tool.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the service validating unit does not validate the service usage setting in the connection setting when the connection setting is not a connection setting set using the tool.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the tool is software executed at a user terminal having acquired an access permission to use the prescribed service, and

the information processing device further comprises a setting unit to communicate with the user terminal that executes the software and performing the connecting setting and a usage setting of the prescribed service.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein

when an access permission is already being retained by the access permission retaining unit upon performing a usage setting of the prescribed service, the setting unit overwrites the retained access permission with an access permission related to a new usage setting.

7. The information processing device according to claim 5, further comprising

an authentication request transmitting unit to transmit, to the server, an authentication request including authentication information notified from the user terminal executing the software to the information processing device, wherein

the access permission retaining unit retains an access permission obtained from the server as a result of the authentication request.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the service using unit transmits data transmitted from the information processing device to an account of the user for the prescribed service, using the access permission.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8, wherein

the information processing device includes an imaging device, and the data is image data read by the imaging device.

10. A system comprising an information processing device and a user terminal capable of communicating with each other, wherein

the information processing device includes:

a connection setting retaining unit to retain a connection setting of a connection to a relay point that relays communication to a network for each relay point;

an access permission retaining unit to retain an access permission for using a prescribed service provided by a server on the network;

a determining unit to determine whether or not the connection setting is a connection setting having been set using a tool that enables the connection setting and a usage setting of the prescribed service to be set in a series of procedures; and

a service using unit to use the prescribed service, using the access permission in a communication relayed by a relay point related to a connection setting determined to be a connection setting having been set using the tool, and

a setting unit to communicate with the user terminal to perform the connection setting and a usage setting of the prescribed service, and

the user terminal includes;

an access permission acquiring unit to acquire an access permission for using a prescribed service provided by a server on the network; and

a setting tool providing unit to communicate with the information processing device in a state, where the access permission has been acquired, and to provide a user with a tool that enables the connection setting and a usage setting for using the prescribed service in use of the access permission to be set in a series of procedures.

11. An image data processing method operating a computer to execute:

retaining a connection setting of a connection to a relay point that relays communication to a network for each relay point;

retaining an access permission for using a prescribed service provided by a server on the network;

determining whether or not the connection setting is a connection setting having been set using a tool that enables the connection setting and a usage setting of the prescribed service to be set in a series of procedures; and

using the prescribed service using the access permission in a communication relayed by a relay point related to a connection setting determined to be a connection setting having been set using the tool.

12. An computer-readable non-transitory medium on which is recorded an image data processing program causing

a computer to function as:

a connection setting retaining unit to retain a connection setting of a connection to a relay point that relays communication to a network for each relay point;

an access permission retaining unit to retain an access permission for using a prescribed service provided by a server on the network;

a determining unit to determine whether or not the connection setting is a connection setting having been set using a tool that enables the connection setting and a usage setting of the prescribed service to be set in a series of procedures; and

a service using unit to use the prescribed service using the access permission in a communication relayed by a relay point related to a connection setting determined to be a connection setting having been set using the tool.