Fujitsu Corporation

Takahiro Nakai

Seigo Kotani

Jun Kamada

Etsuo Ono

Hiroshi Horiguchi

Kousei Isomichi

Hisayuki Gomyo

Massayuki Hatanaka

Yasushi Makino

Toyoaki Nakamoto

The apparatus controls access to the contents. The apparatus comprises MO device, MPEG2 decoder, and MO media as physical elements. Information for identifying these physical elements (identifying information) is allocated to each of these physical elements. License information, indicating whether access to the contents is to be allowed or not, is recorded on a MO media. Access to the contents recorded on the MO media is controlled based on the license information and the identifying information.

Apparatus, a system and method for controlling access to contents

The present invention relates to a gateway system which relays a request from a user for a service provided by another system and to a recording medium therefor. An object of the present invention is to provide a desired information service with a single user ID and password entered on the side of each user by transmitting a request from each user received by a gateway to another desired information provider server or gateway with the user ID and password being converted and by returning a response to the request to the user through a reverse conversion process when the response is received. The gateway system according to the present invention includes a unit which authenticates the user upon receiving the request from the user, a unit which makes the request using link information and authentication information corresponding to the requested service, and a unit which incorporates link information concerning the gateway system into link information included in returned data corresponding to the requested service.

Gateway system and recording medium

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takahiro Nakai