Patent ID: 8751673

Claim:
An apparatus for authenticating a request, the apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives a request which is transmitted via a communication device by a service user to request a service-related process, the request containing process request information and connection identification information, the process request information indicating the contents of the process that the service user requests and the connection identification information being unique to the communication device; a transmitting unit that determines whether or not the request is a login request in which the connection identification information is added to user identification information of the service user, and transmits, when the request is determined to be the login request, the user identification information contained in the login request; a determining unit that determines, when the request is determined not to be the login request, whether the connection identification information contained in the request exactly corresponds to connection identification information of a communication device that has established a connection that allows authorized use of the service; and a permitting unit that permits performing a process that corresponds to the process request information contained in the request, when the result of the determination by the determining unit indicates that the two pieces of the connection identification information exactly correspond to each other.