Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Ntt Communications Corporation

Satoshi Fukada

Makoto Saito

Ippei Shake

Yuki Yokohata

Atsuhiko Maeda

Manabu Yoshida

Shin Miyakawa

Takahiro Hata

Kouhei Mori

Toshiyuki Yamasaki

Yasuhiro Shirasaki

Takamasa Uchiyama

Takashi Egashira

Toshiaki Suzuki

Osamu Tokunaga

A lane pricing technique for charging a mobile body traveling on a road for use of a lane is provided. A lane pricing device according to one embodiment is configured to: acquire from a mobile body traveling on a road, at least one of position information of a mobile body measured based on a positioning signal, and/or a camera image that is acquired by capturing an image from the mobile body and includes a part of a lane in which the mobile body is moving; specify, based on at least one of the position information and/or the camera image, a lane in which the mobile body is moving; acquire lane identification information for identifying a specified lane along with time information indicative of time when the mobile body is moving; and determine and output a toll to be charged to the mobile body in units of lanes based on the lane identification information and the time information.

Lane pricing system, lane pricing device, method, and program

A method for establishing an encrypted communication channel between a first apparatus and a second apparatus by using a session management apparatus. The method includes: establishing a first encrypted communication channel between the session management apparatus and the first apparatus by performing mutual authentication between the session management apparatus and the first apparatus; establishing a second encrypted communication channel between the session management apparatus and the second apparatus by performing mutual authentication between the session management apparatus and the second apparatus; and exchanging key information between the first apparatus and the second apparatus via the first encrypted communication channel and the second encrypted communication channel so as to establish an encrypted communication channel between the first apparatus and the second apparatus.

Method, apparatus and program for establishing encrypted communication channel between apparatuses

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Satoshi Fukada