Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yuko Nagashige

Takayuki Kunieda

Tatsuo Miyachi

Yoshikazu Azuma

A communications system includes a first communications part configured to perform communications with a terminal apparatus, a second communications part configured to perform communications via a network, a connection controller configured to start establishing a connection or release a connection between the first communications part and the second communications part, a display part configured to display authentication information transmitted from the terminal apparatus, an input part configured to receive an input from a user, and a connection manager configured to manage a time to allow the user to have a connection to the network in accordance with an instruction input by the user when the authentication information displayed by the display part matches authentication information reported in advance to the user who has been allowed to have the connection to the network.

System and method for managing and authenticating communications connections

A control device controls two terminating devices virtually directly connected to each other on a network, and includes a memory, an acquisition unit, a generation unit, and a transmission unit. The memory stores address information of each of the terminating devices belonging to mutually different segments on the network. The acquisition unit acquires, from the each of the terminating devices, information of a communication device residing in the segment to which the each of the terminating devices belongs. The generation unit generates, with the address information of the each of the terminating devices stored in the memory and the acquired information of the communication device residing in the segment, a processing rule to be used by the each of the terminating devices to perform a process of transferring input information. The transmission unit transmits the processing rule generated by the generation unit to the each of the terminating devices.

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Osaka, Japan

Yuko Nagashige