Abstract: A communication method executed by an information processing apparatus, the communication method including determining whether coupling of a second external device with a first external device is available based on attribute information on the first external device and attribute information on the second external device in a memory, each of the first external device and the second external device being coupled to the information processing apparatus through wireless communication respectively, cutting off coupling between the first external device and the information processing apparatus when it is determined that the coupling of the second external device with the first external device is available, and transmitting coupling information to the second external device, the coupling information being information for coupling with the first external device and being stored in the memory.

Abstract: A terminal device including: a first network interface configured to perform a first wireless communication with a first device, the first network interface being configured to couple to a specified network via the first device, a second network interface configured to perform a second wireless communication with a second device, and a processor configured to: select one of the first network interface and the second network interface, the first network interface being selected when the second network interface not being configured to couple to the specified network via the second device, the second network interface being selected when the second network interface being configured to couple to the specified network via the second device, and control the selected one of the first network interface and the second network interface to perform a wireless communication.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive a request of changing information that is displayed on an image in a superimposed manner corresponding to a position of an object included in the image; and associate second information with the object based on the request in place of first information displayed on the image in the superimposed manner corresponding to the position of the object.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor that is connected to the memory. The processor executes a process including: determining, when startup of an application is instructed, whether the application needs user authentication; executing, when it is determined that the user authentication is needed, the user authentication by starting up an authentication application that is different from the application; and executing, when the result of the user authentication indicates that the user authentication is successful, the application that is instructed to start up.

Abstract: An information processing method including: starting, by an information processing device, an application program designating a peripheral device type of a plurality of peripheral device types, each of the plurality of peripheral device types corresponding to each peripheral device set, the application program utilizing a specified peripheral device included in a specified peripheral device set to which the designated peripheral device type corresponds, detecting at least one peripheral device that is configured to cooperate with the information processing device, determining the specified peripheral device of the designated peripheral device type, from among the detected at least one peripheral device, and obtaining a specified driver program for utilizing the determined specified peripheral device, wherein the application program utilizes the determined specified peripheral device based on the obtained specified driver program.

Abstract: A storage device includes a switching unit which switches an access destination in a storage area between a first storage area and a second storage area in response to an access request from a host device; and a nonvolatile storage medium which stores a first host device information used to identify the host device in the second storage area, and a software module executed by a CPU provided in the host device, the software module comprising causing an authority grant unit which transmits a control signal for switching the access destination to the first storage area to the switching unit of the storage device, when the acquired first and second host device information are compared to find that the first and second host device information match with each other.

Abstract: An information processing method executed in a computer, the processing method including: starting a network application that belongs to a specified network domain, starting a security application that restricts accesses from the network application except for specified accesses including accesses within same network domain, detecting a peripheral device coupled to the computer, and generating an interface for accessing to the detected peripheral device so that the generated interface belongs to the same specified network domain as the network application.

Abstract: A communication control device configured to access an information processing apparatus in which data is stored. The device and method acquires an operational condition of an information processing apparatus, and notifies the information processing apparatus of a security command for causing the information processing apparatus to execute a security process on the data in an event that an operational condition is activated and, in an event that the operational condition is a standby mode, a hibernate mode, or a shutdown mode, notifies the information processing apparatus of an activation command for activating the information processing apparatus, and notifies of a security command for causing the information processing apparatus to execute a security process on the data.

Abstract: An information processing device capable of performing external communication through a communication device for performing communication includes a subsystem arranged between the communication device and a main unit of the information processing device including a central processing unit and an operating system. The subsystem temporarily stores communication data between the communication device and the central processing unit when the central processing unit is in a power source turned-off state or a suspended state, and the subsystem transfers the communication data between the communication device and the central processing unit when the central processing unit is in a power source turned-on state. Accordingly, external communication is enabled without altering the connection manager of the OS even when the subsystem is placed between the communication device and the OS.

Abstract: An authentication information managing method including: storing each of at least one application identifier, each of at least one user identifier, each of at least one password, and each of at least one positional relation in association with each other to a memory, when a specified application has a plurality of input fields and is identified by a specified application identifier, detecting a first input field for a specified password based on a specified attribution that is associated with the first input field, the specified attribution indicating that the first input field is used for a password and being detected from outside the specified application, inputting the specified password to the first input field, detecting a second input field for a specified user identifier based on a specified positional relation associated with the specified application identifier, and inputting the specified user identifier to the second input field.

Abstract: An information processing device, a destination information updating method, and a destination information updating program in a push-type distribution system that updates destination information without impairing a real-time nature while ensuring security are provided. In updating destination information including an identifier of an application installed onto a terminal, a push server that transmits a push message to a terminal in response to a push message transmission request report from a Web server in the push-type distribution system stores destination information before and after updating, receives the push message transmission request report specifying the destination information before updating, converts the destination information before the updating into the destination information after updating, and transmits the push message to the terminal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive an instruction to transfer a first application to an execution environment, detect a second application that shares a resource with the first application, the resource being information used upon executing the first application and the second application, provide information for causing a user to determine whether to prohibit transferring the second application to the execution environment when the second application is detected, and invalidate a state in which the second application shares the resource with the first application when instruction to prohibit transferring the second application to the execution environment is received.

Abstract: An encryption method for packaging, encrypting, and transmitting a plurality of contents included in a web application to a communication device, the encryption method includes: acquiring performance information relating to performance of the communication device; determining, by circuitry, an encryption algorithm to be applied to each of the plurality of contents, based on the performance information; performing first encryption processing on the plurality of contents using the encryption algorithm respectively; performing second encryption processing on identification information that identifies the encryption algorithm used for the plurality of contents respectively; packaging encrypted contents and encrypted identification information, the encrypted identification information being stored in a location specified by the communication device; and transmitting the encrypted contents and the encrypted identification information, which are packaged, to the communication device.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein an application execution program for causing a computer to execute a process including: associating an external address outside of a terminal device with an application stored in a memory in the terminal device; booting an internal web server to which the external address is assigned, the internal web server being formed in the terminal device; causing a browser to access the internal web server at the external address and acquire the application stored in the memory; and causing the browser to execute the application and access data in a data storage region in the terminal device associated with the external address.

Abstract: A communication control device configured to access an information processing apparatus in which data is stored. The device and method acquires an operational condition of an information processing apparatus, and notifies the information processing apparatus of a security command for causing the information processing apparatus to execute a security process on the data in an event that an operational condition is activated and, in an event that the operational condition is a standby mode, a hibernate mode, or a shutdown mode, notifies the information processing apparatus of an activation command for activating the information processing apparatus, and notifies of a security command for causing the information processing apparatus to execute a security process on the data.

Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium that stores a control program for a client apparatus connectable to a repeater storing execute permission information on a plurality of codes included in an application program received from a server, the control program causing the client apparatus to execute a process including receiving the application program and the execute permission information from the repeater, updating the execute permission information received from the repeater based on evaluation information on the application program received from the repeater, and executing the application program based on the execute permission information updated based on the evaluation information.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has a program stored therein for causing a computer to execute a process of processing a program by repeating analysis and execution of a source code having been read. The process includes associating, when the source code includes a definition of a function, a function name identifying the function, with an intermediate representation of the source code corresponding to the function, to be stored; determining whether the intermediate representation having the function associated is stored, when calling the function; executing a procedure corresponding to the function, by using the intermediate representation, when the intermediate representation is stored; and generating the intermediate representation by analyzing the source code corresponding to the function, when the intermediate representation is not stored.

Abstract: An apparatus includes first and second processors, a common memory, and a switch. The first processor executes an operating system, connects to a communication network and communicates with the communication network. The second processor operates independently of the operating system, connects to the communication network, and communicates with the communication network. The second processor writes, in the common memory, communication setting information being used by the second processor when the switch switches the connection destination from the second processor to the first processor. The first processor acquires the communication setting information, and sets the acquired communication setting information to the first processor. The switch switches the connection destination of the communication network from the second processor to the first processor after the communication setting information has been set to the first processor.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to establish sessions of communication with a plurality of devices in an upper layer of a communication protocol stack, in response to an access request to a first device out of the plurality of devices, switch coupling to the first device by terminating coupling to a second device out of currently-coupled devices among the plurality of devices in a lower layer of the communication protocol stack while holding the sessions established in the upper layer, and when a predetermined period of time is elapsed after the coupling is switched to the first device, switch the coupling to a predetermined device other than the first device out of the plurality of devices by terminating the coupling to the first device in the lower layer while holding the sessions established in the upper layer.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus executes an application program including an application resource and a runtime. The information processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor that executes a procedure in the memory. The procedure includes generating a process space in the memory to invoke the application program, loading the runtime into the process space, loading the application resource into the process space into which the runtime is loaded, generating a process of the application program based on the application resource and the runtime which are loaded into the process space, and executing the process of the application program.