Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Kohji Yamada

Shintaro Mizuno

The setting of the connection of devices to a home gateway apparatus is simplified by providing the apparatus with a gateway function interconnecting a residential network and an external network; a database holding information setting the states of devices getting connected to the residential network and software for the setting, as settings information for each device; and a device setting processing part, setting, for a device newly requesting connection, the state of the device via the residential network by using the settings information, and, when getting accessed from the external network, making settings, with respect to the gateway function for making the firewall settings and the network address translation settings, on the basis of the network information further included in the settings information and the IP address granted to the device.

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Ebina, Japan

Kohji Yamada