Abstract: The present invention provides a heterogeneous spacecraft network including a network management architecture to facilitate communication between a plurality of operations centers and a plurality of data user communities. The network management architecture includes a plurality of network nodes in communication with the plurality of operations centers. The present invention also provides a method of communication for a heterogeneous spacecraft network.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores information concerning a communication path for authentication between a first apparatus and a second apparatus that provides a service, in response to a service access request from the first apparatus; transmits the service access request to the second apparatus by using the information concerning the communication path for authentication; transfers, in response to an authentication request from the second apparatus, the authentication request to the first apparatus by using the information concerning the communication path for authentication; transfers, in response to a response including authentication information from the first apparatus, the response including the authentication information to the second apparatus by using the information concerning the communication path for authentication; and receives data of the service provided by the second apparatus and output a content based on the received content.

Abstract: A system includes circuitry configured to store, as information that identifies an authentication method, identification information shared with an authentication device that performs authentication of a user of an information processing device in association with an event that occurs in accordance with an operation of the information processing device, which is performed by the user, into a memory, transmit, when the event occurs, the identification information stored in association with the event in the memory to the authentication device, receive a result of the authentication of the user by the authentication method in accordance with the identification information in the authentication device from the authentication device, and execute, when the result of the authentication of the user indicates a success, processing in accordance with the event that has occurred.

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: An information processing device receives detection information including a position of a first terminal device corresponding to a position where the first terminal device detects a beacon signal sent from a given beacon device, if no detection information is received from any of a plurality of terminal devices for a given time or more, specifies peripheral equipment based on a storage configured to store position information of the peripheral equipment being present in a position beyond an area where at least one of the plurality of the terminal devices receives the beacon signal if the beacon device is present, notifies coupling information on the specified peripheral equipment to a second terminal device being present in a position communicable with the specified peripheral equipment, obtains first information from the specified peripheral equipment via the second terminal device, and transmits the first information to a given device.

Abstract: An application functionality extension method includes, identifying, by a computer installed in a terminal, a position where a predetermined tag corresponding to a device detected by the terminal is included from an application included in the terminal; and inserting, by the computer, logic for utilizing the device corresponding to the predetermined tag at the identified position of the application.

Abstract: A system includes an apparatus among apparatuses configured to relay communication between equipment, and another apparatus coupled to the apparatuses through a network. The apparatus receives a beacon from one or more equipment for which given operation is executed by a user among a plurality of equipment, the beacon including first identifier whose value is common to the plurality of equipment, each of the plurality of equipment being configured to transmit the beacon; transmits the first identifier and second identifier identifying the one or more equipment, in the beacon, to the another apparatus; and executes relaying communication between equipment relating to a list of second identifier from the another apparatus. The another apparatus transmits, to one of apparatuses, a list of second identifier received in relation to first identifier with a common value in a plurality of the first identifier received from the one of apparatuses.

Abstract: To enhance the convenience of authentication when executing an application, an application server: acquires, from a terminal, context information indicating the status of the terminal; generates, on the basis of the acquired context information, information (an authentication necessity table) pertaining to the necessity for authentication when executing the application; and transmits to the terminal the authentication necessity table and an authentication module described in the table. Then, the terminal, on the basis of the authentication necessity table and an authentication table, determines whether or not authentication is necessary before executing the application, and when it has been determined that authentication is necessary, prior to executing the application, changes the authentication module read destination to the application read destination and executes the authentication module.

Abstract: A pairing management method includes detecting, by a computer, a peripheral device configured to perform short-range wireless communication with the computer; transmitting, by the computer, to a server storing pairing information generated by a pairing process of a management terminal and the peripheral device, an acquisition request for the pairing information of the detected peripheral device; and performing data communication, by the computer, with the detected peripheral device, based on the pairing information, when the pairing information associated with the transmitted acquisition request is received from the server.

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: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an operating system (OS) processor configured to process information by using an OS; and a remote control communication device configured to operate independently from the OS, the remote control communication device including: communication module configured to receive data from an external network, a storage module configured to store therein the reception data received by the communication module, a communication controller configured to transmit, to the OS processor, the reception data received by the communication module and control the storage module so that the storage module stores therein the reception data, an extract module configured to extract, from the reception data stored in the storage module, remote-control data to be processed in the remote control communication device, and a processor configured to control the OS processor, based on the remote-control data extracted by the extract module.

Abstract: A control method executed by an information processing apparatus, the control method includes deleting an application that is installed in the information processing apparatus; displaying a locked screen for which operation is limited; displaying an unlocked screen indicating a confirmation request for confirming that the application is deleted, when an input for releasing the operation limit for the locked screen is detected; and releasing the operation limit for the screen, when a response for the confirmation request is received.

Abstract: A mashup method is disclosed. The Web APIs which the Web application uses are specified by analyzing descriptions of drivers used to access the multiple Web APIs from a Web application to external devices. A Web Application Programing Interface list is created to indicate the Web APIs. The Web application is analyzed. The external devices including the Web APIs which the Web application accesses are estimated. An external device list which indicates the estimated external devices is created. By referring to the external device list, when one or more external devices do not exist, an access to each of the Web APIs pertinent to the Web application is restricted where the one or more external devices include the Web APIs used in a process of the Web application and the process is realized by mashup.

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 headphone includes: a headband; a pair of housing support portions, one and the other of which are provided at one and the other ends of the headband, respectively; a pair of rotational shafts, one and the other of which rotatably connect one and the other of the pair of housing support portions to the headband, respectively; a pair of housings, one and the other of which are provided on one and the other of the pair of housing support portions, respectively, wherein, in a folded state of the housing support portions as a result of a rotation, the pair of housings are disposed in positions contained within an area inside an arc formed by the headband and the housing support portions in an opened state of the housing support portions, and are located side by side without crossing each other; and a pair of ear pads.

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 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 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.