Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

• US 9,641,508 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2015
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sonoda, Shuhei, Kawachi, Tsutomu, Takada, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Homayounmehr, Farid
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bucknor, Olanrewaju
• Application Number:
  US14/677,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20150215306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements

Abstract

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention is arranged in a client terminal connected to a server storing data via a network, wherein the information processing apparatus receives requests from one or a plurality of applications in the client terminal and controls transmission and reception of information to/from the server. The information processing apparatus includes an authentication information storage unit for storing authentication information of a user for accessing the server, and a request transmission unit for attaching the authentication information of the user of the client terminal to a request based on the request given by the application of the client terminal, and transmits the request to the server.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

select one authentication information among a plurality of authentication information stored in a memory according to a request from an application, each authentication information corresponding to different application information, the authentication information being issued by a developer,

add the selected authentication information to the request,

control transmitting the request having the authentication information to a server used to perform log in or log out from the server,

monitor a communication environment of the information processing apparatus and a remaining battery level or a remaining memory capacity of the information processing apparatus, and

transmit the request based on the monitoring result of the communication environment and the remaining battery level or remaining memory capacity of the information processing apparatus;

wherein the memory stores a response transmitted from the server in reply to the request transmitted by the application,

the memory stores expiration information for each accumulated response, and

the circuitry determines, based on the expiration information, whether the response to the request transmitted from the application is to be obtained from the memory.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the authentication information is authentication information of a user of a client terminal and the application is an application of the client terminal.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the request received from the application includes priority information indicating a priority order of transmission to the server, and the circuitry transmits the request to the server based on the priority information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

generate an aggregate request by combining a plurality of requests when the information processing apparatus receives the plurality of requests to the server from the plurality of applications, and

split an aggregate response, given by the server in reply to the aggregate request, into responses corresponding to the respective requests.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the circuitry combines requests having priority orders lower than the priority information, and transmits the combined request to the server.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry manages the response stored in the memory, and

the circuitry transmits the response to the application when the circuitry receives a request from the application for obtaining the response accumulated in the server and determines that the response is to be obtained from the memory.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a predetermined text string is included in requests transmitted from the plurality of applications to the server, the circuitry converts the predetermined text string into information corresponding to the text string and transmits the requests to the server.

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

the memory stores authentication information of a plurality of users, and

when the circuitry receives the requests from the plurality of applications, the circuitry transmits the requests to a region of the server designated for the user who currently logs in to the client terminal.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the request is received from the application, the circuitry determines, based on the application and a content of the request, whether the request can be transmitted to the server or not.

10. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the circuitry determines whether or not to transmit the request based on the monitoring result of the communication environment and the remaining battery level or remaining memory capacity.

11. A method implanted by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

selecting, via circuitry, one authentication information among a plurality of authentication information stored in a memory according to a request from an application, each authentication information corresponding to different application information, the authentication information being issued by a developer;

adding, via the circuitry, the selected authentication information to the request; and

controlling, via the circuitry, transmitting the request having the authentication information to a server used to perform log in or log out from the server;

monitoring a communication environment of the information processing apparatus and a remaining battery level or a remaining memory capacity of the information processing apparatus; and

transmitting the request based on the monitoring result of the communication environment and the remaining battery level or remaining memory capacity of the information processing apparatus;

wherein the memory stores a response transmitted from the server in reply to the request transmitted by the application,

the memory stores expiration information for each accumulated response, and

the circuitry determines, based on the expiration information, whether the response to the request transmitted from the application is to be obtained from the memory.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon which when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

selecting one authentication information among a plurality of authentication information stored in a memory according to a request from an application, each authentication information corresponding to different application information, the authentication information being issued by a developer;

adding the selected authentication information to the request; and

controlling transmitting the request having the authentication information to a server used to perform log in or log out from the server;

monitoring a communication environment of the information processing apparatus and a remaining battery level or a remaining memory capacity of the information processing apparatus; and

transmitting the request based on the monitoring result of the communication environment and the remaining battery level or remaining memory capacity of the information processing apparatus;

wherein the memory stores a response transmitted from the server in reply to the request transmitted by the application,

the memory stores expiration information for each accumulated response, and

the circuitry determines, based on the expiration information, whether the response to the request transmitted from the application is to be obtained from the memory.