Authentication server, authentication method and computer program
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsYasuyuki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Oba, Mitsuru Kanda
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Abstract
There is provided an authentication server including: a network access authenticating unit and an address notifying unit wherein the network access authenticating unit receives, from an authentication relay connected to a network, a first authentication message for a communication device existing under the authentication relay, and execute network access authentication process with the communication device, and the address notifying unit notifies the communication device of the server's address information in accordance with a result of the network access authentication process.
Claims8
An authentication server comprising:
- a network access authenticating unit configured to receive, from an authentication relay connected to a network, a first authentication message for a communication device existing under the authentication relay, and execute network access authentication process with the communication device;
- and
- an address notifying unit configured to notify the communication device of the server's address information in accordance with a result of the network access authentication process.
An authentication method comprising:
- receiving, from an authentication relay connected to a network, a first authentication message for a communication device existing under the authentication relay, and executing network access authentication process with the communication device;
- and
- notifying the communication device of server address information in accordance with a result of the network access authentication process.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored therein which when executed by a processor, causes the processor to execute steps comprising:
- receiving, from an authentication relay connected to a network, a first authentication message for a communication device existing under the authentication relay, and executing network access authentication process with the communication device;
- and
- notifying the communication device of server address information in accordance with a result of the network access authentication process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.