Patent ID: 8095627
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing device connected to a network, comprising: a communication unit which communicates with each device on a network, determines whether to accept data received from a device on the network or not based on a prescribed criterion, determines a target task selected from a plurality of tasks to which the received data is transferred based on a port number contained in the received data, and transfers the received data to the target task in response to the received data being determined to be accepted based on the prescribed criterion; a storage unit storing the prescribed criterion indicating prescribed network addresses for which the received data having a network address as a sender is allowed to be transferred to a corresponding task; and a setting change task execution unit that executes a setting change task making a setting change to the prescribed criterion, wherein the communication unit transfers the received data to the setting change task when the port number contained in the received data corresponds to the setting change task and the received data being determined to be accepted based on the prescribed criterion, wherein the setting change task execution unit comprises: wherein the information processing device further comprises: wherein the criterion is at least one address range, and the communication unit either: