Data storage device and data storage method with network access management
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorIsao Takahashi
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Abstract
A data storage device includes: a reception unit that receives data transmitted from a transmission device via a network; a storage unit that stores the data which has been received and creates registration history data for the stored data; and a charge processing unit that identifies an access point which has been used by the transmission device when accessing the network based upon access history data created by an access management device which monitors access to the network and the registration history data, and performs charge processing for a user of the transmission device according to a result of identification.
Claims14
A method for conducting data communication between an electric device and a specific server provided by a specific IT service provider through an access point provided by a wireless LAN service provider, the method comprising:
- requesting by the electric device the data communication with the specific server by the access point of the wireless LAN service provider,
- judging by the access point whether or not the data communication is requested by a person who is not a subscriber to the wireless LAN service provider and whether or not the data communication is directed to the specific server,
- specially permitting the data communication by the access point when the access point judges that the data communication is requested by the person who is not a subscriber to the wireless LAN service provider and that the data communication is directed to the specific server, and
- permitting the data communication by the access point to both the specific server and a server other than the specific server when the access point judges that the data communication is requested by a person who is a subscriber to the wireless LAN service provider.
A system for storing data received in data communication conducted through an access point provided by a wireless LAN service provider comprising:
- a server provided by a specific IT service provider that receives and stores data received via data communication specially permitted by the wireless LAN service provider;
- an electric device that requests data communication with the specific server;
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- a control unit for controlling the access point to specially permit the data communication when the data communication is requested by the person who is not the subscriber to the wireless LAN service provider and the data communication is directed to the specific server, and to forbid the data communication directed to a server other than the specific server, wherein
- the specific server includes a data storage that stores therein the data received in the data communication with the control unit for the access point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.