Communication apparatus and communication system

• US 8,966,255 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2011
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Koyama, Toshiya
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Baotran N
• Application Number:
  US13/067,466
• Publication Number:
  US 20110300791A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• Field of Search: 713/168
• US Class Current: 713/168
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/93 Remote control using other portable devices, e.g. mobile phone, PDA, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

A communication apparatus including: a reception portion that receives identification information for a first apparatus to identify a second apparatus, and authentication information for the first apparatus to authenticate the second apparatus, from a network, the network being different from a route used when wireless communication between the first apparatus and the second apparatus is executed; and a communication unit that substitutes for the second apparatus and executes the wireless communication with the first apparatus by using the identification information and the authentication information when the second apparatus fails to execute the wireless communication with the first apparatus.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus, communicating with a plurality of communication apparatuses, configured to execute wireless communication, the communication apparatus comprising:

a network communication unit, including an interface, that receives, from a second communication apparatus that communicates with a first communication apparatus by wireless communication, identification information for identifying the second communication apparatus, and authentication information for authenticating the second communication apparatus, through a network, the network being different from a route for executing wireless communication and the network communication unit transmits a network address of the communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus by using an exclusive server connected to the network or an e-mail; and

a wireless device unit that executes wireless communication with the first communication apparatus in substitution for the second communication apparatus by using the identification information and the authentication information that the network communication unit has received when the second communication apparatus is unable to execute the wireless communication with the first communication apparatus.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, the network communication unit receives the identification information and the authentication information from the second communication apparatus via the network.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, the network communication unit receives the identification information and the authentication information from a third communication apparatus via the network, the third communication apparatus having obtained the identification information and the authentication information from the second communication apparatus.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, the network communication unit transmits a network address of the communication apparatus to the third communication apparatus by using a route different from the network.

5. A communication apparatus, communicating with a first communication apparatus and a fourth communication apparatus, the communication apparatus comprising:

a wireless device unit that executes direct wireless communication with the first communication apparatus; and

a network communication unit that, when the wireless device unit is unable to execute the direct wireless communication with the first communication apparatus, transmits identification information for identifying the communication apparatus and authentication information for authenticating the communication apparatus to the fourth communication apparatus through a network, communicates with the first communication apparatus via the fourth communication apparatus, the network being different from a route used for executing the wireless communication, and the network communication unit receives a network address of the fourth communication apparatus from the fourth communication apparatus by using an exclusive server connected to the network or an e-mail.

6. A communication apparatus, communicating with a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus, the communication apparatus comprising:

a wireless device unit that receives, from the second communication apparatus that communicates with the first communication apparatus in wireless communication, identification information for identifying the second communication apparatus, and authentication information for authenticating the second communication apparatus through a network different from a route for executing wireless communication; and

a network communication unit that, when the second communication apparatus is unable to directly communicate with the first communication apparatus in wireless communication, communicates with the first communication apparatus via a network different from a route for executing wireless communication and a fourth communication apparatus that is communicates with the first communication apparatus in wireless communication by using the identification information and the authentication information that the second communication unit has received, and the network communication unit receives a network address of the fourth communication apparatus from the fourth communication apparatus by using an exclusive server connected to the network or an e-mail.

7. A communication system, comprising:

a first communication apparatus;

a second communication apparatus that executes wireless communication with the first communication apparatus;

a fourth communication apparatus that communicates with the second communication apparatus through a network different from a route used for executing wireless communication;

wherein the second communication apparatus, when the second communication apparatus fails to execute direct wireless communication with the first communication apparatus, transmits identification information for identifying the second communication apparatus, and authentication information for authenticating the second communication apparatus to the fourth communication apparatus through the network, and

wherein the fourth communication apparatus transmits a network address of the fourth communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus by using an exclusive server connected to the network or an e-mail and executes the wireless communication with the first communication apparatus in substitution for the second communication apparatus by using the identification information and the authentication information received from the second communication apparatus.

8. A communication system, comprising:

a first communication apparatus;

a second communication apparatus that, executes wireless communication with the first communication apparatus;

a third communication apparatus that communicates with the second communication apparatus through a network different from a route for executing wireless communication; and

a fourth communication apparatus that communicates with the third communication apparatus and executes wireless communication;

wherein the second communication apparatus, when the second communication apparatus fails to execute wireless communication with the first communication apparatus, transmits identification information for identifying the second communication apparatus, and authentication information for authenticating the second communication apparatus to the third communication apparatus through the network,

wherein the third communication apparatus transmits the identification information and the authentication information received from the second communication apparatus to the fourth communication apparatus; and

wherein the fourth communication apparatus transmits a network address of the fourth communication apparatus to the third communication apparatus by using an exclusive server connected to the network or an e-mail and executes the wireless communication with the first communication apparatus in substitution for the third communication apparatus by using the identification information and the authentication information received from the third communication apparatus.