Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for responding to a request based on IP address

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10162581-B2
Application number	US-201715487759-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 14, 2017
Priority date	Sep 8, 2016
Publication date	Dec 25, 2018
Grant date	Dec 25, 2018

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit and a controller. The receiving unit receives an access request from another apparatus. If an IP address of the own apparatus is a global IP address, the controller makes no response to or reject the access request unless a predetermined condition indicating that the other apparatus belongs to an organization to which the own apparatus belongs is satisfied.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a processor that is programmed to
receive an access request from another apparatus, and
in response to determining that (i) an IP address of the information processing apparatus is a global IP address, and (ii) a predetermined condition between the information processing apparatus and the other apparatus is not satisfied, make no response to, or reject, the access request from the other apparatus, wherein

the predetermined condition indicates that the other apparatus belongs to an organization to which the information processing apparatus belongs.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the predetermined condition includes a condition that an organization which owns the global IP address of the information processing apparatus owns a global IP address of the other apparatus.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the predetermined condition further includes a condition that the organization which owns the global IP address of the other apparatus is not an Internet service provider (ISP).

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the processor stores correspondence information that associates the organization which owns the global IP address of the other apparatus with the global IP address of the other apparatus, and
when the processor receives the access request from the other apparatus again, the processor specifies the organization which owns the global IP address of the other apparatus in the correspondence information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
when the IP address of the information processing apparatus is the global IP address, and when authentication information used for authentication to access the information processing apparatus is not changed from an initial setting value, the processor makes no response to or rejects the access request.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
when the IP address of the information processing apparatus is the global IP address, the processor makes a response to the access request if the predetermined condition is satisfied.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein
when the IP address of the information processing apparatus is the global IP address, the processor makes the response to the access request if at least a part of a global IP address of the other apparatus or information of an organization which owns the global IP address of the other apparatus is previously registered even though the predetermined condition is not satisfied.

8. An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving an access request from another apparatus; and
in response to determining that (i) an IP address of the information processing apparatus is a global IP address, and (ii) a predetermined condition between the information processing apparatus and the other apparatus is not satisfied, making no response to, or rejecting, the access request from the other apparatus, wherein
the predetermined condition indicates that the other apparatus belongs to an organization to which the information processing apparatus belongs.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer in an information processing apparatus to execute information processing comprising:
receiving an access request from another apparatus; and
in response to determining that (i) an IP address of the information processing apparatus is a global IP address, and (ii) a predetermined condition between the information processing apparatus and the other apparatus is not satisfied, making no response to, or rejecting, the access request from the other apparatus, wherein
the predetermined condition indicates that the other apparatus belongs to an organization to which the information processing apparatus belongs.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is further programmed to
in response to determining that (i) the IP address of the information processing apparatus is the global IP address, and (ii) the predetermined condition is satisfied, accept the access request from the other apparatus.

11. The information processing method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
in response to determining that (i) the IP address of the information processing apparatus is the global IP address, and (ii) the predetermined condition is satisfied, accepting the access request from the other apparatus.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 9 , wherein
the information processing further comprises:
in response to determining that (i) the IP address of the information processing apparatus is the global IP address, and (ii) the predetermined condition is satisfied, accepting the access request from the other apparatus.

Assignees

• Fuji Xerox Co Ltd

Inventors

• Masui Takanori

Classifications

• H04N1/00127

  Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture · CPC title

• G06F3/1222

  Increasing security of the print job · CPC title

• H04N1/4406

  Restricting access, e.g. according to user identity (mechanisms actuated y cards, PIN or the like in apparatus for dispensing G07F7/08) · CPC title

• G06F3/1238 Primary

  Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs · CPC title

• H04N1/33376

  according to characteristics or state of one of the communicating parties, e.g. available memory capacity · CPC title