Patent ID: 8897142

Claim:
A communication monitoring device to monitor a communication of an information processing device in a network, said communication monitoring device comprising: a first communication guidance unit to guide, to said communication monitoring device, the communication sent by a target device in said information processing devices with intent to be received by a device other than said communication monitoring device; a second communication guidance unit to guide, to said communication monitoring device, the communication sent by an information processing device other than said target device with intent to be received by said target device; a receiving unit to receive the communication addressed to said communication monitoring device; a guidance success determining unit to determine, if said receiving unit receives the communication addressed to said communication monitoring device from said target device, that said first communication guidance unit succeeds in the guidance; and a communication guidance canceling unit to cancel, if said guidance success determining unit determines that said first communication guidance unit succeeds in the guidance, the communication guidance of said second communication guidance unit.