Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080263143 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - Upon receiving a request from a personal computer for obtaining data of an advertisement image, an advertisement server reads data of an advertisement image stored in a storage. A superimposition image DB stores data of superimposition images to be superimposed on part of advertisement images and data of superimposition areas in the advertisement images where the superimposition images are superimposed. A superimposition image is superimposed on a superimposition area in the advertisement image. Data of the advertisement image superimposed with the superimposition image is transmitted to the personal computer. The personal computer receives position data input as a result of operation performed on the advertisement image superimposed with the superimposition image and transmits the position data to the advertisement server. The advertisement server receives the position data and determines whether the position data exists within the superimposition area whose data is stored in the superimposition image DB. | 10-23-2008 |
20090007278 | PRIVACY PROTECTION DEVICE, PRIVACY PROTECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PRIVACY PROTECTION PROGRAM - A privacy protection device acquires provider location information and browser location information indicating the current location of a browser terminal used by a browser who intends to browse the content. The privacy protection device stores determination data for determining whether to mask privacy information included in the content. The privacy protection device determines whether to mask the privacy information by comparing the distance, which is calculated based on the current location of the provider terminal indicated by the provider location information and the current location of the browser terminal indicated by the browser location information, to the determination data stored in the determination data storage part. Finally, the privacy protection device edits the privacy information included in the content so that the privacy information is concealed from the browser when the privacy masking determination part determines to mask the privacy information. | 01-01-2009 |
20090036060 | WIRELESS TAG DETERMINATION METHOD, WIRELESS TAG DETERMINATION SYSTEM, READER CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A system and method for determining a failed wireless tag includes capturing images of articles having wireless tags, recognizing an image including wireless tags from among captured images calculating a number of wireless tags and distance information from the reader to each wireless tag based on the recognized image including wireless tags; changing a read range of the reader based on a location wireless tag having a predetermined distance information from the reader; and changing the read range of the reader when a number of wireless tags read by the reader and a number of wireless tags calculated do not match and determining a failed wireless tag based on the changed read range and distance information calculated. | 02-05-2009 |
20090063848 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING/RECEIVING DATA, CENTRAL APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A product data category for sale among product data to be stored in a memory unit of a wireless tag is sent from a first client to a web server. The web server sends the product data category to a second client. The second client sends purchase data for the product data category to the web server. The web server sends an encryption key to the first client. The first client encrypts the product data with the encryption key and writes the encrypted product data in the memory unit of the wireless tag via a reader/writer. The web server sends a decryption key to the second client. On receiving the decryption key, the second client reads the encrypted product data in the wireless tag via a reader/writer to decrypt the encrypted product data with the decryption key. | 03-05-2009 |
20090082033 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, DATA TRANSFER METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING DATA TRANSFER PROGRAM RECORDED - A data transfer apparatus includes a data transmitting portion, a destination point recording portion, an arrival time calculating portion, a required transfer rate calculating portion, and an occupied transfer rate calculating portion. The data transmitting portion transmits the pieces of untransmitted data to the respective mobile terminals through the communication line in accordance with the respective occupied data transfer rates calculated by the occupied transfer rate calculating portion. | 03-26-2009 |
20090284071 | FEED INTERMEDIATE APPARATUS, FEEDING SYSTEM, AND FEED INTERMEDIATE METHOD - A feed hub includes a priority receiving unit that acquires priority indicating degree of need of electricity feed, for each of plural terminals, a feed relation determining unit that selects two communication devices having different priorities acquired by the priority receiving unit, determines the communication device having lower priority as a feed source and the communication device having higher priority as a feed destination from the selected communication devices, an electricity switching unit that connects the feed source and the feed destination determined by the feed relation determining unit, and a feed requesting unit that requests the feed source determined by the feed relation determining unit to feed electricity. | 11-19-2009 |
20090323654 | WIRELESS AD HOC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication terminal performs wireless ad hoc communication with another terminal via a first wireless interface dedicated to reception and a second wireless interface for both transmission and reception. The terminal executes defining a communication area to be divided into cells of first polygonal shapes and each of the cells to be divided into a plurality of sub-cells of second polygonal shapes different from the first polygonal shapes; allocating, so as to prevent adjacent cells from belonging to a set of two identical wireless channels, a first wireless channel and a second wireless channel as the set of wireless channels to the cells; and setting the first wireless channel and the second wireless channel so that the same transmission channel is set for sub-cells brought into contact between the adjacent cells while different transmission channels are set for adjacent sub-cells in an own cell where an own terminal is present. | 12-31-2009 |
20100088407 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - An information distribution system includes a visit determination unit ( | 04-08-2010 |
20100097341 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is provided with a signature window data generating unit that, by combining template window data stored in a template data storage unit with confirmation note item data and confirmation note content data acquired by a confirmation note data acquiring unit, generates signature window data indicating a signature window on which the confirmation note item data and the confirmation note content data are displayed in at least a portion of an input area, and a signature window display unit that causes a display apparatus to display the signature window indicated by the signature window data generated by the signature window data generating unit. | 04-22-2010 |
20100144347 | WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A wireless terminal device includes: a receiving section for receiving information on a distance from a range covered by a connectable access point from another wireless terminal device; a search time determination section for determining a time to start searching for the access point based on the information on the distance received by the receiving section; and a search section for sleeping until the time determined by the search time determination section, and starting to search for the connectable access point at the determined time. | 06-10-2010 |
20100182925 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A radio communication apparatus including: a receiver receiving a traffic evaluation index value of a contention node as a connection node one layer below a self node with a root node of a radio network set as the top layer; parameter determining unit determining a parameter related to priority control of the contention node or a priority for determining the parameter, based on the traffic evaluation index value of the contention node, so that a traffic congestion is prevented and cleared; and a transmitter transmitting the parameter related to the priority control of the contention node or the priority to the contention node. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185766 | LOAD DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, LOAD DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A load distribution apparatus includes: a control unit that refers to a load information storage unit that stores load values of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, selects an information processing apparatus with the load value smaller than a predetermined threshold from the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and determines the information processing apparatus with the load value smaller than a predetermined threshold as an allocation destination of processing requests until the load value of the information processing apparatus reaches the predetermined threshold; and a transmitting unit that transmits the processing requests to the allocation destination determined by the control unit. | 07-22-2010 |
20100235390 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SEARCH PROGRAM - The search method includes: receiving a search request including plural search conditions; separating the plural search conditions into search conditions for individual databases; storing, for each database, the search condition and the database identifier in a condition record; searching a search result management table by the database identifier and the search condition; determining anterior search databases; searching each of the anterior search databases by the search condition to acquire a first search result; determining common entity identifiers included in common in the first search results; and searching each of posterior search databases by the common entity identifiers and the search condition. | 09-16-2010 |
20100259380 | EVENT DETECTION CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - The event message is transmitted from an operative event detection device to the application, the transmission history is held by a device different from the operative event detection device, an event identifier of an event message and a time stamp in the generation history held by a standby event detection device is compared with an event identifier of an event message and a time stamp in the transmission history when the standby event detection device detects an abnormal condition of the operative event detection device, thereby transmitting an event message that has not been transmitted by the operative event detection device through the standby event detection device, and allowing the standby event detection device to transfer from the standby event detection device to an operative system. | 10-14-2010 |
20100325172 | Information Processing Apparatus and Method - An information processing method, to verify condition data specifying conditions as to multiple attribute values of an object and attribute values obtained from said object, includes verifying processing to obtain a new attribute value after change for an attribute value having the smallest change frequency of attribute values not satisfying the conditions specified by said condition data, and verify whether or not the new attribute value after said change satisfy the conditions of said condition data; and further executing said verifying processing as to other attribute values not satisfying the conditions specified by said condition data in the case that said new attribute value after change for the attribute value having the smallest change frequency satisfies said conditions. | 12-23-2010 |
20110055219 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - A database system includes a database device for managing a database including data records, each data record including identification information and an attribute value, index devices for managing an index database including index records, each index record including search information determined by the attribute value and the identification information, each index devices managing each of parts of the index database, and a management device executing a process including detecting an update frequency of the attribute value stored in the database, generating search information by combining the attribute values, each attribute values having the update frequency higher than a predetermined frequency, generating the index record including the generated search information and the identification information associated with the combined attribute values included in the generated search condition information, and determining one of the plurality of index devices for managing the generated index record. | 03-03-2011 |
20110172912 | POSITION-FIXING CONTROL APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING POSITION-FIXING CONTROL PROGRAM - A position-fixing control apparatus includes a position-fixing device fixes a position of the position-fixing control apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires a travel speed and vibration information of the position-fixing control apparatus, a first modifier modifies a measurement period of position fixing of the position-fixing device to a first period when the speed exceeds a specific speed, a second modifier modifies the measurement period of position fixing of the position-fixing device to a second period shorter than the first period when the speed is equal to or below the specific speed, a storage unit stores a vibration pattern, and a third modifier modifies the measurement period of position fixing of the position-fixing device to a third period equal to or longer than the first period when the vibration information acquired subsequent to the modification of the measurement period to the second period matches the vibration pattern. | 07-14-2011 |
20110178979 | MOVEMENT DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND MOVEMENT DETERMINATION METHOD - A movement determination apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of position information of an object at desired periods, a classifying unit that classifies the plurality of position information acquired by the acquiring unit into a plurality of measurement segments, an estimating unit that estimates existence regions of the object in the plurality of measurement segments, on a basis of the classified plurality of position information, and a determining unit that determines movement of the object position by comparing the existence regions. | 07-21-2011 |
20110208765 | USER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR CONTENT PROVISION, PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - A user information management device configured to manage user information regarding content provision service users, and to provide a content acquisition method to a user client device, the user information management device includes, a user information storage unit configured to store user information for each user, the user information including an address of the content acquisition method and attribute information including a user's attributes using attribute values classified into predetermined attribute categories; an access attribute information storage unit configured to store access attribute information for each set of content; a content provision unit that acquires from the user information storage unit, a content provision request including content information; an access acquisition unit configured such that, upon receiving a content acquisition request from the user client device including content information, attribute criteria, and user attribute information. | 08-25-2011 |
20110219007 | METHOD EXECUTED BY MANAGEMENT SERVER, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A method executed by a management server controlling a plurality of index servers for searching a database storing an object identifier and an attribute value, each of the plurality of index servers handling a part of the database, storing index information including the attribute value within a range predefined for the each of the plurality of index servers and the associated object identifier stored in the database, the method has deleting one of index information stored in one of the index servers in reference to the range of each of the index servers when an updated attribute value coming to be out of the range of the one of the index servers, obtaining a frequency of the deleting and the storing the one of the index information, and enabling the index server to obtain an attribute value from the database when the obtained frequency being more than a predetermined value. | 09-08-2011 |
20110231408 | PRIVACY PROTECTION DEVICE, PRIVACY PROTECTION METHOD, AND LIFE LOG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A privacy protection device includes an attribute update frequency management unit configured to calculate and record therein an update frequency of each attribute included in a life log of a user in response to storing of the life log; a static attribute extraction unit configured to calculate a threshold value of a change frequency on the basis of a static attribute, an attribute the update frequency of which is less than or equal to the calculated threshold value of the change frequency, the update frequency being recorded by the attribute update frequency management unit; and a notification request reception unit configured to extract the number of users satisfying the notification condition of the notification request, accept the registration of the notification request from the service provider when the extracted number of users exceeds the limit number of persons. | 09-22-2011 |
20120161962 | Service providing method, information processing apparatus and computer readable information recording medium - A service providing method of being notified of position information by terminals and providing services corresponding to the notified position information of the terminals includes determining movements of the terminals based on the notified position information; in a case where it has been determined that a difference between the movements of the terminals is equal to or less than a threshold, storing information indicating the determined terminals in an associating information database in a manner of being associated with each other; transmitting signals indicating notification modes of reduced notification frequencies of the position information to the associated terminals; and when the position information is notified by one of the associated terminals, using the notified position information as the position information of the one of the associated terminals and also as the position information of another one of the associated terminals. | 06-28-2012 |
20120172053 | RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING POSITION ESTIMATION PROGRAM, POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE, AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD - A computer executes processing of acquiring, by using a positioning unit to output error region information indicating an ellipse-shaped error region represented by a position acquired from positioning performed by receiving a signal from a plurality of transmitters and a measurement error of the position, a plurality of pieces of the error region information by performing the positioning a plurality of times, processing of extending the error region indicated by each piece of the acquired error region information in a major axis direction, and processing of estimating a position of a positioning target based on an intersect region at which the extended error regions intersect with one another. | 07-05-2012 |
20140380440 | AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OF ASSOCIATED FIRST AND SECOND AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION FOR USER AUTHENTICATION - An authentication information management program of an authentication information management apparatus allowing the authentication information management apparatus to execute: changing the first authentication information in correspondence information which is information including the first authentication information and second authentication information in association with each other and stored in a storage section of the authentication information management apparatus; transmitting the authentication apparatus of the changed first authentication information; determining, in response to a request from the apparatus to be authenticated, whether the second authentication information in the authentication request coincides with the second authentication information in the correspondence information; and returning, in the case where it is determined that the second authentication information in the authentication request coincides with the second authentication information in the correspondence information, the first authentication information associated with the second authentication information read from the storage section. | 12-25-2014 |