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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2017
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Yamane, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Ashino, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a communication network determination apparatus, etc. capable of correctly specifying a communication network which can be monitored by a monitoring device even when necessary and sufficient configuration information about the configuration of the communication network cannot be obtained. A communication network determination apparatus calculates a number of types of communication identifier associated with an apparatus identifier of a second information apparatus in monitoring information where a communication identifier allocated to a first information apparatus in a second communication network and an apparatus identifier of a second information apparatus that relays a communication in a first communication network, the monitoring information generated based on communication network via the first communication network; and determines that the first communication network is the same as the second communication network when the calculated number of types is one and determines that the first communication network is different from the second communication network, otherwise.