Abstract: A communication management apparatus for managing communication exchanged between communication apparatuses, including: a communication information management control portion for receiving, after communication under a communication session between first and second communication apparatuses, first information of quantity of the communication from the first communication apparatus and for receiving second information of quantity of the communication from the second communication apparatus; a communication information storage portion for storing both the first and second information received from the communication information management control portion; and a communication information verification portion for comparing the first and second information of quantity of the communication to verify any falsification thereof in a statistical process.

Abstract: A system is provided that includes session management servers which mediate a secure communication performed between communication apparatuses. The session management servers create and maintain communication logs for recording at a start and end of the secure communication. The system includes log management servers which manage the communication logs of the secure communication. The communication source apparatus, the communication destination apparatus and the session management servers transmit their own communication logs to the corresponding log management server in the same domain to which they belong. One of the log management servers obtains those communication logs from the others based on a request and performs verification of consistency among them. Accordingly, it is possible to create reliable communication logs of the secure communication performed between the communication source apparatus and the communication destination apparatus.

Abstract: In inter-peer communication between an application server for providing service such as Voice over IP or contents distribution and a client using the service, the client or the application server notifies a log management server of a communication log by a log information process. The log management server verifies consistency of the notified communication log by a log compare process requested by the client or the application server. Because the log information process and the log compare process are executed periodically during inter-peer communication, the client and the application server can detect inconsistency of the communication log instantaneously and notify each other of the consistency of the communication log.