Method and device for managing computer network
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsKazuo Takaragi, Seiichi Domyo, Hiroshi Yoshiura
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Abstract
A method and a device for managing a computer network, especially a technique for ensuring the security of a network. A computer network system in which computers are connected to each other through transmission lines, each computer stores the data which constitutes a moving type software exclusively used for security and transmitted together with a message when the computer transmits the message to another computer of the system, and executes the moving type software by using the stored data upon receiving a message from another computer.
Claims41
A computer network managing method for use in a computer network in which a plurality of computers are coupled to each other via transmission lines, said method comprising:
- appending data forming said moving type security dedicated software to a message when said each computer sends said message to another computer, and when said each computer receives a message from another computer, retrieving said data forming a moving type security dedicated software and executing said moving type security dedicated software in accordance with said retrieved data constituting said moving type security dedicated software, said data being added to the message.
A computer network managing device for use in a computer network in which a plurality of computers are coupled to each other via transmission lines, wherein each of the computers includes:
- a fixed type security dedicated module for executing a moving type security dedicated software in accordance with data forming said moving type security dedicated software, and
- wherein said fixed type security dedicated module appends, when said each computer sends a message to another computer, said data to said message;
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- wherein said fixed type security dedicated module retrieves, when said each computer receives a message from another computer, said data forming a moving type security dedicated software;
- and executes said moving type security dedicated software in accordance with said retrieved data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.