摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image server for reducing the load of password entry and communicating under an optimum condition as well as improving the accuracy of authentication that a terminal is a regular one. <P>SOLUTION: The server transmits a password entry request to the terminal by a Web server 13 when the terminal requests an image, authenticates a user by a response, compresses to transmit images photographed by a camera 11 by an image data producing part 12. The server has an information extracting means 13a for extracting the serial number of the terminal from environment information included in the response; and an access approved user registration table 17b for registering the serial number extracted by the extracting means 13a only when the serial number is authenticated as corresponding to the user's password. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI |