Information processing apparatus configured to determine a transmission source device of a packet and information processing method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTakeshi Ejima
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus connected to a plurality of networks, includes: a plurality of device drivers each of which is receives a packet from each of the networks; and circuitry determines a network to which a transmission source device of the packet belongs based on information indicating which of the device drivers has received the packet.
Claims10
An information processing apparatus connected to a plurality of networks, comprising:
- a plurality of device drivers each of which is configured to receive a packet from each of the networks;
- a plurality of interfaces corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of the device drivers;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to determine a source network from among the plurality of networks to which a transmission source device of the packet belongs based on information indicating which of the plurality of interfaces has received the packet.
An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus connected to a plurality of networks, the information processing apparatus including a plurality of device drivers each of which is configured to receive a packet from each of the networks and a plurality of interfaces corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of the device drivers, the information processing method comprising:
- acquiring information indicating which of the plurality of interfaces corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of the device drivers has received the packet;
- and
- determining a source network from among the plurality of networks to which a transmission source device of the packet belongs based on the information indicating which of the plurality of interfaces has received the packet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.