Patent ID: 7797424

Claim:
A service provision method, comprising: acquiring before shipment of a terminal apparatus a host address of the terminal apparatus included in a first signal as a sending side address transmitted from the terminal apparatus connected to a first network, wherein, in acquiring the host address of the terminal apparatus before shipment of the terminal apparatus, the host address of the terminal apparatus connected to the first network in an apparatus factory is acquired; acquiring owner information of the terminal apparatus; acquiring a network address of a second network in accordance with the acquired owner information from a database storing the network address of the second network and the owner information of the terminal apparatus; acquiring after shipment of the terminal apparatus, when a second signal is transmitted from the terminal apparatus connected to the second network, an IPv6 address of a sending side included in the second signal transmitted from the terminal apparatus; determining the host address of the terminal apparatus acquired before shipment of the terminal apparatus to coincide with lower-order 64 bits of the IPv6 address acquired from the transmitted second signal and the network address of the second network acquired from the database in accordance with the acquired owner information to coincide with higher-order 64 bits of the IPv6 address acquired from the transmitted second signal; and providing a service, via the Internet, to the terminal apparatus via the second network.