Freebit Co., Ltd.

Atsuki Ishida

Hiroshi Oizumi

Hiroki Ikeda

Nobuaki Tanaka

Noriaki Misawa

Takafumi Kusano

Takashi Shimizu

Jun Kitamura

Shinpei Yashima

Hirotaka Niisato

Jo Sakai

Akihiro Takehi

Yutaka Ishizaki

A system for managing connection from a smartphoneprovided to a child to specific connection destinations via the Internet, comprising: a filter serverfor restricting packet transmission to the Internet based on a destination of the packet and a source IP of the smartphone; a VPN serverfor establishing a tunnel connectionbetween the VPN serverand the smartphone, wherein the tunnel connectionpasses all communication traffic from the smartphone, and also transmitting to the filter server the packet which passed through the tunnel connection; and an API serverconnected to the VPN serverfor confirming existence of the tunnel connectionat predetermined timing and, when lack of the existence is determined, blocking the Internet connection itself of the information communication device.

Internet connection management system for information communication device, method therefor, and internet connection management program installed in information communication device

There is provided an app management softwarefor cooperating with a bandwidth control systemfor dynamically changing a communication bandwidth of the mobile information terminalfor each type of applicationwhich is installed on the mobile information terminal. This software comprises: a modulefor causing the mobile information terminalto detect a type of applicationwhich communicates from the mobile information terminal; a modulefor causing the mobile information terminalto obtain mobile information terminal identification information for uniquely identifying the mobile information terminal on a communication network; a modulefor causing the mobile information terminalto send the type of application as well as information for identifying the mobile information terminal to the bandwidth control system; and a display sectionfor causing the mobile information terminalto receive a communication status for each application from the bandwidth control system and displaying the communication status on a display of the mobile information terminal.

Application state change notification program and method therefor

According to the present invention, there is provided a method for setting up a cloud account for a mobile operating system on a smartphone equipped with the mobile operating system, comprising the steps of: (1) connecting to a support service providing server by the smartphone, (2) authenticating the smartphone by the support service providing server; (3) remotely accessing the smartphone by the support service providing server to thereby obtain a cloud account from a cloud service providing server through the smartphone; and (4) performing identity validation for the cloud account by the support service providing server between the support service providing server and the cloud service providing server.

Method and system for setting smartphone account

An image shooting system capable of generating high-quality and high-definition images is provided through a camera even when a user of the camera has no knowledge on the camera's settings or photo-shooting techniques, or when the performance of the camera itself is low. There is provided an image shooting system having an image shooting apparatus and a server connected to the image shooting apparatus through the Internet, wherein the image shooting apparatus comprises: a unit for recording image shooting condition parameters as meta-information in a file of an image taken; a communication interface for connecting to the image shooting apparatus to the server, sending the image file to the server, receiving from the server and storing, optimal image shooting condition parameters for optimizing an image quality of the image file; and a unit for reading the optimal image shooting condition parameters received from the server and setting them as an image shooting condition for the image shooting apparatus based on user selections, wherein the server comprises: a unit for obtaining a image file from the image shooting apparatus; a unit for reading settings described in meta-information and determining a model of the apparatus; and an optimal image shooting condition parameter calculation unit for analyzing the image quality of the image file based on a predetermined algorithm as well as calculating, based on the determined model, the optimal image shooting condition parameters for the model to take the image.

Automated parameter optimization for an image shooting system

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an Internet connection system capable of performing bidirectional communications between a home network and the Internet by relatively simple means and enabling manufacturers of client-side home network appliances to find a unique added value. In order to attain the above object, according to a first primary aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for connecting a client device to a server, comprising the steps of: (a) notifying a relay device of an IP address of the server; (b) establishing a TCP/IP session by a tunneling connection between the relay device and the server using the notified IP address; and (c) based on information of the relay device or the client device, grouping by the server a plurality of relay devices or client devices for each of which a tunneling connection with the server is established.

Server for routing connection to client device

A simple means is used to realize a virtual network communication via an home network and Internet. A relay devicecomprises bridge moduleprovided between a network protocol stackand each of network devicesfor bridging for packets which are not addressed to the relay device or VLAN, or not broadcast request packets; a server address storage sectionfor storing the global address of a server; a tunneling session establishing sectionfor establishing a tunneling connection with the server based on the global address; a capsulating processing sectionfor capsulating a originating address and sending it to the server via the tunneling connection; and a virtual IP address/private IP address conversion sectionfor decapsulating a packet addressed to the relay device, converting a destination virtual network address included in this packet to a private IP address on the LAN of a client apparatus, and sending it onto the LAN via the bridge module.

Relay device and method for connecting client apparatus with server

Bidirectional communication is performed by an application employing particular communication protocols without depending on any specific network environment enabled by an OS and the like. There is provided a communication module installed in a client apparatus for connecting an application software program to a virtual network via a server on the Internet. This module interposes between the application software program in a computer and a group of local communication protocol stacks of an operating system installed in the computer; retains a virtual network address for the application software program; performs the tunneling processing on packets from the application software program to the virtual network to thereby pass the processed packets to the server through the local communication protocol stacks; and is provided with Layerandprotocol stacks that are independent of a group of local communication protocol stacks.

Communication module for connecting application program to virtual private network

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an Internet connection system which is capable of benefiting from the IPv6 by relatively easy manner and in which manufacturers of client-side devices can create added values for users. IPv6 packets are transmitted by a tunneling connection between a home network and a server on the Internet. Also terminal devices present in the home network can be uniquely recognized and controlled from outside via the server. Since all communications are performed via the server on the Internet regardless of the carrier and the ISP, the terminal device and all connections to the terminal device can be freely configured and controlled by the owner or the manufacturer of the server on the Internet.

System for the internet connections, and server for routing connection to a client machine

The objective of the present invention is to provide an Internet connection system capable of bi-directional communications between the home network and the Internet by relatively simple means, enabling manufacturers of client-end home network appliances to create added values for users. In order to attain the above objective, there is provided a method for connecting a client device and a server. The method is implemented on an Internet connection system, which has the client device, a relay device, and the server, the server being connected to the Internet and also to the client device through the relay device and the Internet. The method includes the steps of: (a) notifying the relay device of an IP address of the server; (b) enabling the relay device to establish a TCP/IP session by means of a tunneling connection between the relay device and the server by use of the IP address; and (c) enabling the relay device to route communications via the TCP/IP session from the server to the client device.

Server for routing connections between the server and a client machine

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an Internet connection system which is capable of benefiting from the IPv6 by relatively easy means and in which manufacturers of client-side devices can create added values for users. IPv6 packets are transmitted by a tunneling connection between a home network and a server on the Internet. Also terminal devices present in the home network can be uniquely recognized and controlled from outside via the server. Since all communications are performed via the server on the Internet regardless of the carrier and the ISP, the terminal device and all connections to the terminal device can be freely configured and controlled by the owner or the manufacturer of the server on the Internet.

System for the internet connections, and server for routing connections to a client machine

A system for Internet connections, which connects a user terminal to a network. The system generally comprises a section for relaying a network connection from a user through an access point, a monitoring section for monitoring the network connection from the user through the access point, and a network connection fee calculation section for calculating a network connection fee for the user based on a monitoring result of the monitoring unit. The connection fee calculation section comprises a line connection fee calculation section for calculating a line connection fee for a line connection made by the user to the access point based on user signal source information, which is provided from a telephone company, and a charge amount calculation section for calculating a charge amount for the user based on the line connection fee, calculated by the line connection fee calculation section.

System for internet connections, method for calculating connection fees for network connection services, billing system for network connection services, and system for network connection management

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Tokyo, Japan

Atsuki Ishida