摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and speedily form a private network. <P>SOLUTION: When an IC card 1 is made proximate to the IC card reader/ writer of a hard disk recorder 3, the hard disk recorder 3 writes a profile containing its own IP address or the like on the IC card 1. When a profile list containing a card ID and the profile of a television receiver 2, for example, is read out of the IC card 1, the hard disk recorder 3 performs access to the television receiver 2 on the basis of the list. Then, the hard disk recorder 3 reports the profile list read out of the IC card 1 and newly added with the profile of the hard disk recorder 3 to the television receiver 2 and forms a Virtual Private Network (VPN) 5 with the television receiver 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO |