Patent ID: 8117451

Claim:
A computer for controlling a device, comprising: a sending section that sends a message from an execution object with an indication attached to a control section wherein the sending section comprises: an evaluation section that generates an indication indicating reliability of the execution object in response to receiving the message from the execution object; and an indication attachment section that attaches the indication to the received message, wherein the control section comprises: a storage section that stores a plurality of procedures operating the device corresponding to indications, and wherein the control section is configured to check the indication attached to the message in response to receiving the message, and to selectively execute a procedure operating the device, corresponding to the message and the indication, from the plurality of procedures operating the device stored in the storage section, in a case that the procedure is a first procedure among the plurality of procedures operating the device, the procedure is selected in response to the indication, and in a case that the procedure is a second procedure among the plurality of procedures operating the device, the procedure is not selected in response to the indication.