Method and apparatus for judging coincidence of addresses, and service provision method and service provision apparatus

• US 7,797,424 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2003
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Katsuhisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr.; William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cloud; Joiya M
• Application Number:
  US10/677,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20040068566A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,540 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 709/245
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32

Abstract

A terminal service management server compares a host address of a terminal apparatus received from a terminal manufacturing factory site, a network address acquired from a network address retrieval site and an Internet service provider, and a sender address of a packet sent by a terminal apparatus connected to a LAN, and provides a service to the terminal apparatus connected to the LAN in the case in which the host address, the network address, and the sender address coincide with each other.

Claims

1. A service provision method, comprising:

acquiring before shipment of a terminal apparatus a host address of the terminal apparatus included in a first signal as a sending side address transmitted from the terminal apparatus connected to a first network, wherein, in acquiring the host address of the terminal apparatus before shipment of the terminal apparatus, the host address of the terminal apparatus connected to the first network in an apparatus factory is acquired;

acquiring owner information of the terminal apparatus;

acquiring a network address of a second network in accordance with the acquired owner information from a database storing the network address of the second network and the owner information of the terminal apparatus;

acquiring after shipment of the terminal apparatus, when a second signal is transmitted from the terminal apparatus connected to the second network, an IPv6 address of a sending side included in the second signal transmitted from the terminal apparatus;

determining the host address of the terminal apparatus acquired before shipment of the terminal apparatus to coincide with lower-order 64 bits of the IPv6 address acquired from the transmitted second signal and the network address of the second network acquired from the database in accordance with the acquired owner information to coincide with higher-order 64 bits of the IPv6 address acquired from the transmitted second signal; and

providing a service, via the Internet, to the terminal apparatus via the second network.

2. The service provision method according to claim 1, wherein, in acquiring the network address of the second network, a part of the network address of the second network is acquired from an Internet service provider for connecting the second network to the Internet.

3. The service provision method according to claim 1, wherein, in acquiring the network address of the second network, a part of the network address of the second network is acquired from a DNS server.

4. A service provision apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to;

acquire before shipment of a terminal apparatus a host address of the terminal apparatus included in a first signal as a sending side address transmitted from the terminal apparatus connected to a first network, wherein, in acquiring the host address of the terminal apparatus before shipment of the terminal apparatus, the host address of the terminal apparatus connected to the first network in an apparatus factory is acquired;

acquire owner information of the terminal apparatus;

acquire a network address of a second network in accordance with the acquired owner information from a database storing the network address of the second network and the owner information of the terminal apparatus;

acquire after shipment of the terminal apparatus, when a second signal is transmitted from the terminal apparatus connected to the second network, an IPv6 address of a sending side included in the second signal transmitted from the terminal apparatus;

determine the host address of the terminal apparatus acquired before shipment of the terminal apparatus to coincide with lower-order 64 bits of the IPv6 address acquired from the transmitted second signal and the network address of the second network acquired from the database in accordance with the acquired owner information to coincide with higher-order 64 bits of the IPv6 address acquired from the transmitted second signal; and

provide a service, via the Internet, to the terminal apparatus via the second network.