Patent ID: 7448069

Claim:
An access-request control method of controlling an access request from an application to a communication device, to which at least a general-purpose port is allocated, that performs a communication via a communication network in response to the access request, the access-request control method comprising: permitting a utilization of the communication device prior to the access request from the application; and controlling whether to accept the access request to the communication device from the application, based on a permission status for the utilization of the communication device, wherein the permitting includes setting an access flag indicating a permission of an access to the communication device in response to a request to set the access flag from the application, the permitting includes permitting the utilization of the communication device before a general-purpose-port opening process, the controlling includes, when the access request is accepted from the application, controlling whether to accept the access request to the communication device from the application, based on whether the access flag is set for the application, and the controlling includes controlling whether to accept the access request to the communication device from the application as a part of the general-purpose-port opening process.