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20150094084 | DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A distribution device according to the present application includes a receiving unit, a calculation unit, and a distribution unit. The receiving unit receives location information from a terminal device owned by a user. The calculation unit calculates, once the receiving unit receives the location information, an expected time within which the user arrives from a first coverage region in which communication is possible by way of an out-of-coverage region in which communication is impossible to a second coverage region. The distribution unit distributes an alert to a predetermined distribution destination if the location information of the second coverage region is not received from the terminal device within the expected time calculated by the calculation unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150067778 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes a reception unit and a control unit. The reception unit receives an access request including identification information of a transmission source from a terminal. The control unit acquires user information that is information about a user using the terminal based on the identification information included in the access request. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067034 | SERVER, DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A server includes a terminal information acquisition unit, a region specifying unit, and a distribution information generation unit. The terminal information acquisition unit acquires from each of a plurality of first terminal devices, terminal information including measurement information used to calculate a distance from each of second terminal devices to each of the plurality of first terminal devices for each second terminal device present near the first terminal device and position information of the first terminal device. The region specifying unit specifies a region in which the second terminal device is disposed at a distance according to the measurement information from the position of each of the first terminal devices. The distribution information generation unit generates the information indicating the distribution of the positions of the first terminal device and the second terminal device based on the region specified by the region specifying unit. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066586 | EVALUATION CALCULATING DEVICE, EVALUATION CALCULATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A delivery device according to the present invention includes a storing unit and a calculating unit. The storing unit stores a number of views a webpage concerning a commercial product and a number of behaviors which result in profitable behavior which leads a profit of a provider who provides the webpage by the user who accesses the webpage in a memory unit for every commercial product. The calculating unit calculates an evaluation value of the commercial product based on the number of views the webpage concerning the commercial product and the number of behaviors of the webpage stored in the memory unit. | 03-05-2015 |
20150065162 | POSITION SPECIFYING SERVER, POSITION SPECIFYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING POSITION SPECIFYING PROGRAM - A position specifying server includes a storage unit, a communication unit, an estimation unit, and a specifying unit. The storage unit stores GMMs corresponding to base stations of radio waves receivable by a terminal device on each floor. The communication unit receives measured values of the radio wave strengths of the radio waves which the terminal device receives from the base stations. The estimation unit estimates a position of the terminal device for each floor based on the received measured values of the radio wave strengths and the GMMs. The specifying unit calculates the estimated values of the radio wave strengths at the estimated position of the terminal device on each floor based on the GMMs and specifies the floor on which the terminal device is present based on the calculated estimated values of the radio wave strengths and the measured values of the radio wave strengths. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063686 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A delivery device according to the present invention includes a learning image storage unit, a first recognition unit, a second recognition unit, and a registration unit. The learning image storage unit stores at least one piece of learning image. The first recognition unit recognizes a recognition target image using the learning image stored in the learning image storage unit. The second recognition unit recognizes the recognition target image with finer precision than that of the first recognition unit, when the first recognition unit fails to recognize the recognition target image. When the second recognition unit succeeds in recognizing the recognition target image, the registration unit registers information on the successfully recognized recognition target image in a storage unit. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063665 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SPECIFYING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes an acquiring unit that acquires target information representing a shooting target shown in an image shot by a user and biological information acquired from the user when the image is shot for each plurality of images shot by the user. The information processing device includes an extracting unit that extracts biological information corresponding to target information representing the shooting target from the biological information acquired by the acquiring unit for each shooting target. The information processing device includes a specifying unit that specifies the user's emotion for the shooting target using the biological information extracted by the extracting unit. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061993 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A terminal apparatus provides a highly convenient user interface. The terminal apparatus includes a designated direction detection unit and a display control unit. The designated direction detection unit detects a designated direction, which is a direction in which the terminal apparatus is directed, with respect to a reference direction as a reference of the direction of the terminal apparatus on the basis of a signal from a sensor that outputs a signal indicating the attitude of the terminal apparatus. The display control unit displays an image, in which the direction in which the object is directed with respect to the reference direction is maintained and the object is disposed at the end of a direction corresponding to the designated direction, on a display device. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061825 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a collecting unit which collects user's biological information. The information processing device includes a determining unit which determines an emotion of the user by using the biological information collected by the collecting unit. The information processing device includes an output unit which outputs in association with information representing the user and the emotion of the user determined by the determining unit to terminal devices which are used by other users. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061824 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a collecting unit that collects biological information of a first user and a second user. The information processing device includes a specifying unit that specifies an emotion of the first user toward the second user and an emotion of the second user toward the first user using the biological information acquired by the collecting unit. The information processing device includes a determining unit that determines whether or not to provide information on the second user to the first user based on respective emotions specified by the specifying unit. | 03-05-2015 |
20140379494 | AUCTION APPARATUS AND AUCTION METHOD - An auction apparatus according to the application includes a communication unit and an auction providing unit. The communication unit communicates with a communication network. The auction providing unit presents a portion of plan information indicating a plan of content which is created by a content creator, presents the other plan information when a request is received from an advertiser who has browsed the portion of the plan information, and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space set to the content. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379493 | AUCTION APPARATUS AND AUCTION METHOD - An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which bid targets are a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content and a right to replace the advertisement displayed in the advertising space. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379492 | AUCTION APPARATUS AND AUCTION METHOD - An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and a providing unit. The plan receiving unit gradually receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content a plurality of times. The providing unit additionally presents the plan information which is gradually received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space set to the content. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379491 | AUCTION APPARATUS AND AUCTION METHOD - An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content by the content creator. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379446 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information management device includes a storage unit that stores distribution information representing whether shop information has been distributed. The information management device includes a determining unit that determines whether the shop information has been distributed when a request for distributing of the shop information from a first user to a second user is received. The information management device includes a distributing unit that distributes the shop information to the second user when the determining unit determines that the shop information has not been distributed. The information management device includes an updating unit that updates the distribution information to distribution information representing that the shop information has been distributed when the distributing unit distributes the shop information to the second user, and updates the distribution information to distribution information representing that the shop information has not been distributed when the second user uses a store related to the shop information. | 12-25-2014 |
20140365308 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD - A wireless terminal according to an embodiment includes a list of identification information of wireless LAN access points according to a behavior history of a user, and receives information corresponding to an entrance place from an information management device when the entrance to a communication area of a wireless LAN access point whose identification information is included in the list is performed. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365306 | USER INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, USER INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A user information providing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a database, an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, and a output unit. The database stores pieces of user information of a business operator. The acquiring unit acquires, as entry information, information of a place corresponding to the business operator and information of a wireless terminal which has entered the place. The extracting unit extracts a piece of user information of the business operator corresponding to the place which the wireless terminal has entered from the database, based on the entry information acquired. The output unit outputs the extracted piece of user information. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an image storage unit, a conversion unit, and an output unit. The image storage unit stores therein multiple images with different viewpoint positions. The conversion unit converts each of the images stored in the image storage unit to each of images to be imaged by imaging devices that are arranged such that respective optical axes pass through a dynamically set position in a target object. The output unit outputs the images converted by the conversion unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20140289608 | TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND SERVER DEVICE - A terminal device includes an input receiving unit and a screen control unit. The input receiving unit receives input operation for inputting arbitrary information in an input field contained in an input screen. The screen control unit displays the input screen, as a confirmation screen, in which the input field is set to an uneditable state, when the information input in the input field through the input operation satisfies an input requirement of the input field. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289088 | LOAN SYSTEM, CREDIT INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, LOAN DETERMINING DEVICE AND LOAN CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD - A loan system includes a loan determining device configured to determine a loan condition, and a credit information generating device configured to provide credit information of a store, which applies for a loan, to the loan determining device. The credit information generating device includes a storage unit that stores store operation result data including accumulation of latest data generated along with a store operation, a score data generating unit configured to generate score data of the store based on the store operation result data in a predetermined period, and a credit information generating unit configured to generate credit information of the store based on the score data. The loan determining device includes a credit information obtaining unit configured to obtain the credit information of the store, and a loan condition determining unit configured to determine a loan condition to the store based on the credit information of the store. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289058 | ADVERTISEMENT GENERATION APPARATUS AND TERMINAL DEVICE - An advertisement generation apparatus includes a generating unit that generates a page to foe displayed on a terminal device that displays an advertisement on a screen. The page includes a content page and an advertising page that are superimposed one on top of the other, where the content page includes an advertising space such that the advertising space is to be scrolled on the screen according to operation, and the advertising page is greater in size than the advertising space. The page is configured to display the content page, and a part of the advertising page located within the advertising space. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289050 | OUTPUT OF ADVERTISEMENT UTILIZING EXCHANGE OF ITEM DATA - A terminal device includes an owner attribute information holding unit, a program execution unit, an item data holding unit, an output unit, an item data reception unit, a partner attribute information holding unit, an advertisement output unit, and network communication unit. The owner attribute information holding unit holds one or more pieces of owner attribute information. The program execution unit executes a program. The item data holding unit holds item data. The output unit outputs the held item data with the held owner attribute information through short-range wireless communication. The item data reception unit receives the item data with partner attribute information. The partner attribute information holding unit holds the received partner attribute information. The advertisement output unit outputs an advertisement on a basis of the held partner attribute information. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289041 | TERMINAL DEVICE, COUPON SERVER DEVICE, COUPON-USING DEVICE, COUPON HISTORY-OF-USE SERVER DEVICE, AND COUPON SHARING SYSTEM - A terminal device includes a coupon file acquisition unit, a share-coupon file generation unit, a user ID holding unit, a first instruction unit, and a coupon file output unit. The coupon file acquisition unit is configured to acquire a sharable coupon file including a coupon information storing portion and a history-of-share information storing portion through a near-field wireless communication. The share-coupon file generation unit is configured to generate a coupon file to be output to be shared. The user ID holding unit is configured to hold a user ID. The first instruction unit is configured to instruct the share-coupon file generation unit to store a user ID in a history-of-share information storing portion in the generated coupon file. The coupon file output unit is configured to output the coupon file generated by the share-coupon file generation unit to share. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289039 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An advertisement distribution device according to the present application includes a distribution unit. The distribution unit distributes advertising content while switching an advertisement distribution process in accordance with a predetermined target figure within the range an advertisement listing fee paid to a provider of a Web page on which the advertising content is placed reaches the predetermined target figure. | 09-25-2014 |
20140288827 | GUIDING SERVER, GUIDING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING GUIDING PROGRAM - A guiding server according to this application includes an image storing unit, a retrieving unit, and a generating unit. The image storing unit stores a signboard image of a signboard. The retrieving unit retrieves, from the image storing unit, a signboard image of a signboard on a way to a destination based on location information and destination information of a user terminal. The generating unit generates guiding information including the signboard image based on the retrieved signboard image, the location information and the destination information and transmits the guiding information to the user terminal. | 09-25-2014 |
20140280273 | ANIMAL ABNORMALITY DETECTING DEVICE, AND ANIMAL ABNORMALITY DETECTING METHOD - An animal abnormality detecting device includes an animal abnormality information storage unit, a retrieval observation data receiving unit, an animal abnormality information specifying unit, and an abnormality information transmitting unit. In the animal abnormality information storage unit, animal abnormality information including animal observation data including one or more pieces of time-series observation data on an animal and animal individual information is stored. The retrieval observation data receiving unit receives retrieval animal observation data including one or more pieces of time-series observation data on an animal and retrieval animal individual information. The animal abnormality information specifying unit specifies the animal abnormality information including the animal observation data and the animal individual information corresponding to the retrieval animal observation data and the retrieval animal individual information. The abnormality information transmitting unit transmits abnormality information when the animal abnormality information specifying unit specifies the animal abnormality information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280135 | TIME-SERIES DATA ANALYZING APPARATUS AND TIME-SERIES DATA ANALYZING METHOD - A time-series data analyzing apparatus includes an observation data storing unit, a feature amount data obtaining unit, a state rule obtaining unit, an action rule obtaining unit, and an output unit. The observation data storing unit stores one or more types of observation data in time series which are observation data of an object for observation. The feature amount data obtaining unit obtains two or more types of feature amount data from one type of the observation data. The state rule obtaining unit obtains a state rule which is a rule related to a state of the object, by using the feature amount data. The action rule obtaining unit obtains an action rule which is a rule related to an action of the object, by using the feature amount data. The output unit outputs the state rule and the action rule. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279046 | ADVERTISEMENT PROVIDING APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT PROVIDING METHOD - An advertisement providing apparatus includes a first advertisement providing unit, a friend list acquisition unit, a score calculation unit, and a second advertisement providing unit. The first advertisement providing unit is configured to provide a first advertisement to a user group including one or a plurality of users. The friend list acquisition unit is configured to acquire a friend list of a user who clicked on the first advertisement among the users included in the user group. The score calculation unit is configured to calculate, for each friend user included in the friend list, a score in which a click tendency of the friend user is reflected. The second advertisement providing unit is configured to provide a second advertisement that is the same as the first advertisement, to a friend user having a score that satisfies a certain condition. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278939 | ADVERTISEMENT EXTRACTION DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT EXTRACTION METHOD - An advertisement extraction device according to the present application has a calculating unit, a tallying unit, and an extracting unit. The calculating unit calculates a hypothetical advertisement effect for each user attribute of a user, based on a delivery history regarding advertisement content delivery to a terminal device used by the user. The tallying unit tallies up an advertisement effect for each piece of advertisement content in which a user attribute as a delivery object has been decided, through the use of the hypothetical advertisement effect corresponding to the user attribute as the delivery object in the advertisement content among the hypothetical advertisement effects for each of the user attributes calculated by the calculating unit. The extracting unit extracts the advertisement content as a delivery candidate, based on the advertisement effect tallied up by the tallying unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140257974 | CORRECTION DEVICE, CORRECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A correction device includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an arrangement position of advertisement information within a predetermined page layout when the advertisement information arranged in the predetermined page layout is displayed on a display screen of a terminal and a click rate at the arrangement position. The correction device includes a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a specific position in the predetermined page layout displayed on the display screen and an attention degree index indicating a degree of attention of the specific position as compared to another position. The correction device includes a correction unit configured to correct a click rate of the advertisement information based on the attention degree index of the specific position corresponding to the arrangement position of the advertisement information. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257970 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An advertisement distribution device includes: an arrangement position acquisition unit configured to acquire an arrangement position on a display screen of a terminal to display advertisement information; an attention degree index extracting unit configured to extract an attention degree index of the arrangement position based on acquisition of a specific position on the display screen and an attention degree index of the specific position; an arrangement position ranking unit configured to rank a plurality of arrangement positions based on a plurality of attention degree indices extracted by the attention degree index extracting unit; a distribution information ranking unit configured to rank a plurality of pieces of advertisement information based on a predetermined ranking process; and a distribution unit configured to distribute the plurality of pieces of advertisement information based on the ranks of the plurality of pieces of advertisement information and the ranks of the plurality of arrangement positions. | 09-11-2014 |
20140249900 | AFFILIATE SYSTEM, AFFILIATE METHOD, AND SERVER - An affiliate system according to the embodiment acquires an introduction request including information on a product or service that a user of a first terminal decides to introduce to a user of a second terminal among products or services purchased or used by the user of the first terminal, selects from among users of respective second terminals, the user of the second terminal who is associated with the user of the first terminal and who visits a purchase site or use site of the product or service specified in the introduction request, and notifies introduction information corresponding to the introduction request to the second terminal of the selected user. If the user of the second terminal purchases or uses the product or service on the basis of the introduction information, a reward is provided to the user of the first terminal. | 09-04-2014 |
20140247806 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication terminal according to an embodiment includes a wireless LAN communication unit, a prediction unit which predicts a moving area of a user, an estimation unit, and a communication control unit. The estimation unit estimates a switching state of a wireless LAN connection in the wireless LAN communication unit, on the basis of a wireless LAN communication environment in the moving area predicted by the prediction unit. The communication unit restricts the wireless LAN connection in the wireless LAN communication unit, on the basis of the switching state estimated by the estimation unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140244553 | MACHINE LEARNING APPARATUS AND MACHINE LEARNING METHOD - A machine learning apparatus includes an analytical information storage unit that stores therein two or more pieces of analytical information each associating input/output information used for machine learning with time-point information indicating a time point of the input/output information, an analysis-object-set specifying unit that specifies an analysis object set containing a unit-period input-output set being a set of pieces of the input/output information corresponding to pieces of the time-point information indicating the time point in a unit period and an amount of the pieces of the input/output information of the set being dependent on a period between the time point of the unit periods and a specific time point, and a machine learning unit that performs machine learning by using the pieces of the input/output information contained in the analysis object set. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244403 | ADVERTISING CHARGE ADJUSTING DEVICE - An advertising charge adjusting device is configured to set a minimum delivery price which determines a lower limit of a bid price. The advertising charge adjusting device includes a minimum delivery price calculating unit configured to calculate the minimum delivery price for each targeting element, based on bid information for using a targeting function and bid information for not using the targeting function, pieces of bid information being submitted by a plurality of advertisers. | 08-28-2014 |
20140236760 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a terminal information acquiring unit, a store information acquiring unit, and a sending unit. The terminal information acquiring unit acquires information on purchase planned products which is sent from a wireless terminal existing in a store in which a wireless LAN communication apparatus is installed, from the wireless LAN communication apparatus. The store information acquiring unit acquires information on sales products corresponding to the information on the purchase planned products which is acquired by the terminal information acquiring unit, from a store information storage unit which stores pieces of information on the sales products in the store. The sending unit sends the information on the sales products which is acquired by the store information acquiring unit to the wireless terminal through the wireless LAN communication apparatus. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236727 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, a storage unit, and a notification unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on a wireless terminal that enters communication areas of the wireless LAN communication units installed in different. The determination unit determines a movement route of a user of the wireless terminal on the basis of the information on the wireless terminal acquired by the acquisition unit. The storage unit stores the information on the movement route determined by the determination unit as a movement route history. The notification unit notifies the user of the wireless terminal that has entered the communication area of the wireless LAN communication unit of predetermined information on the basis of the movement route history stored in the storage unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236717 | ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND ADVERTISING EFFECT DETERMINATION METHOD - An advertising system according to an embodiment includes a remitting customer side wireless LAN communication unit, an attracting customer side wireless LAN communication unit, and a remitting customer result update unit. The attracting customer side wireless LAN communication unit is arranged at a position corresponding to a digital signage on which advertising content is displayed. The attracting customer side wireless LAN communication unit is arranged in a commercial space. The remitting customer result update unit updates information on a result of remitting customer by the advertising content, when a wireless terminal enters a communication area of the attracting customer side wireless LAN communication unit after entering a communication area of the remitting customer side wireless LAN communication unit is detected. | 08-21-2014 |
20140222584 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement distribution management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a detection unit, a storage unit, and an acceptance unit. The detection unit detects information on a wireless terminal which exists in a communication area of a wireless LAN access point and which satisfies a predetermined condition. The storage unit stores information on the wireless terminal detected by the detection unit and attribute information set to the wireless LAN access point in association with each other. The acceptance unit accepts an order request of an advertisement distribution that specifies the attribute information on the basis of the information on the wireless terminal stored in the storage unit in association with the specified attribute information. | 08-07-2014 |
20140211645 | WIRELESS TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - A wireless terminal according to an embodiment includes a display unit, a wireless LAN communication unit, a wireless WAN communication unit, and a control unit. The control unit acquires, when a radio wave intensity of a wireless signal output from a wireless LAN access point detected by the wireless LAN communication unit satisfies a predetermined condition, notification information corresponding to the wireless LAN access point by the wireless WAN communication unit or by the wireless LAN communication unit, and to indicates the notification information with an indication unit. | 07-31-2014 |
20140204926 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - The information providing system according to the embodiment includes a wireless LAN access point and an information providing apparatus. The wireless LAN access point detects a wireless terminal existing in a wireless LAN communication area to transmit the detection information to the information providing apparatus. The information providing apparatus determines either the wireless LAN access point or a wireless WAN base station, on the basis of information on a user of a wireless terminal specified according to the detection information and/or the information on an installation location of the wireless LAN access point, as a communication medium that notifies the notification information. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204925 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system according to an embodiment includes a wireless LAN communication unit, a notification information storage unit, a terminal position acquisition unit, and a notification unit. The notification information storage unit stores notification information corresponding to the wireless LAN communication unit. The terminal position acquisition unit acquires position information indicating a position of a wireless terminal. The notification unit notifies a wireless terminal positioned in a communication area of the wireless LAN communication unit and not communicating with the wireless LAN communication unit of the notification information via a wireless WAN base station. | 07-24-2014 |
20140200996 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An advertising distribution device | 07-17-2014 |
20140195608 | MOBILE INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE SYSTEM, SERVER, AND PROCESSING METHOD - At a mobile information processing terminal, a close-range communication unit performs close-range communications with another mobile information processing terminal, a reception unit receives through the close-range communication unit a user identifier for uniquely identifying a user of an application for a social networking service (SNS) on the other mobile information processing terminal, a determination unit is configured to determine whether there is a match between the social networking service on the other mobile information processing terminal and an SNS used on the mobile information processing terminal, and when the determination unit determines that there is a match, the transmission unit transmits the received user identifier to a server of the SNS so as to register a user identified by the user identifier as a friend. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195375 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND USER DEVICE - An information providing apparatus receives wish information relevant to a wish item that a user wishes to have and position information of the user. The information providing apparatus transmits the wish information to a provider device used by a provider who provides items. The information providing apparatus receives provision information relevant to provision of the wish item from the provider device. The information providing apparatus determines whether a moving cost, which is required for moving from a position indicated by the position information to a providing place at which the provider provides the wish item, satisfies a predetermined condition. The information providing apparatus notifies a user device of the provision information corresponding to a provider in which the moving cost satisfies the predetermined condition. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195340 | ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An advertisement information providing device includes an advertisement content storage unit that stores advertisement content of a plurality of types. The advertisement information providing device includes an expected earning calculation unit that calculates expected earnings per unit impression number for each type of the advertisement content or for a combination of a plurality of types of the advertisement content. The advertisement information providing device includes an advertisement content type determination unit that determines which type of the advertisement content or combination of types of the advertisement content is to be delivered based on the expected earnings. The advertisement information providing device includes an advertisement content delivery unit that acquires the type of the advertisement content or combination of types of the advertisement content and delivers the advertisement content to an advertisement space. | 07-10-2014 |
20140180813 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes an allocation unit and an advertisement delivery unit. The allocation unit selects delivery target users who have the user attribute designated by each of order requests and whose number corresponds to the number of deliveries designated by each of order requests, from a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations, and allocates the selected delivery target users to the order requests. The advertisement delivery unit selects the advertising information of the order request corresponding to a user attribute of a user of a user terminal on the basis of the allocation result of the allocation unit and transmits the selected advertising information to the user terminal. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180812 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a prediction information storage unit, an acquisition unit and an allocation unit. The prediction information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of order requests designating user attributes and the numbers of deliveries. The allocation unit allocates the delivery target users to the plurality of order requests, on the basis of the user attributes and the numbers of deliveries designated by the plurality of order requests, such that the number of predetermined user attributes of the delivery target users who have not been allocated to the order requests is the maximum. | 06-26-2014 |
20140173031 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - An information providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a receiving unit and a distribution unit. The receiving unit receives an access request for accessing first content from a terminal apparatus used by a first user. The distribution unit distributes, to the terminal apparatus, the first content including link information which is posted by a second user related to the first user in a predetermined communication service among pieces of link information to other content when the receiving unit receives the access request. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172586 | ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An advertisement information providing device includes an advertisement content storing unit which stores impression-guaranteed type advertisement content and time basis billing type advertisement content, an advertisement content determining unit which, when receiving a page browsing request from a terminal device of a user, determines advertisement content to be delivered from the impression-guaranteed type advertisement content and the time basis billing type advertisement content stored in the advertisement content storing unit, and an advertisement content delivering unit which delivers the advertisement content determined by the advertisement content determining unit to an ad space included in a page for which the page browsing request is received from the terminal device of the user. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172574 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information transmission device stores attribute information of each product to be provided to a user. The information transmission device acquires positional information of the user from a communication device owned by the user. The information transmission device specifies the user's situation using at least the acquired positional information of the user. The information transmission device specifies the product having the user's specified situation as the attribute information. The information transmission device transmits the specified product to the communication device. | 06-19-2014 |
20140164128 | INFORMATION DELIVERY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DELIVERY METHOD - An information delivery device is provided. Advertisement information, key information, delivery information, and priority information are stored. One piece of advertisement information is transmitted to an advertisement providing device based on priority information. Input information input to a terminal is received. It is determined whether a position of the terminal is within a predetermined region, and whether a correlation between the input information and the key information corresponding to the one piece of advertisement information is within a predetermined permissible range. Based on the result of determination, delivery information corresponding to the one piece of advertisement information is delivered to the terminal. Transmission of relevant information related to the delivery information is detected. The priority information corresponding to the one piece of advertisement information is generated based on at least one of delivery of the delivery information and transmission of the relevant information. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164127 | INFORMATION DELIVERY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DELIVERY METHOD - An information delivery device includes an advertisement information transmitting unit, an input information receiving unit, a terminal position determining unit, an advertisement information database, a correlation determining unit, and an information delivering unit. The advertisement information transmitting unit transmits advertisement information to an advertisement providing device. The input information receiving unit receives input information. The terminal position determining unit determines whether a position of the terminal is within a predetermined region. The advertisement information database stores the advertisement information, predetermined key information, and delivery information in association with one another. The correlation determining unit determines whether a correlation between the input information and the key information is within a predetermined permissible range. The information delivering unit delivers the delivery information associated with the advertisement information to the terminal only when the position of the terminal is within the predetermined region and the correlation is within the permissible range. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164107 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an accepting unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on two or more types of delivery target user groups, each including a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations. The determination unit determines whether each of the delivery target user groups satisfies delivery conditions designated by an advertisement delivery order request. The accepting unit accepts the advertisement delivery order request based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164104 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a predicted information storage unit, an allocating unit, and a reallocating unit. The predicted information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations. The allocating unit allocates the delivery target user to an advertisement delivery order request based on the information stored in the predicted information storage unit. The reallocating unit performs a reallocating process of exchanging the delivery target user allocated to the order request with a non-allocated user who is the delivery target user that has not been allocated to the order request. | 06-12-2014 |
20140157433 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEMBERSHIP MANAGING METHOD, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND MEMBERSHIP MANAGING SYSTEM - A management apparatus stores a usable or non-usable state representing whether a right is usable or non-usable by a user in a facility in which a service is provided by a service provider using a service providing apparatus. And, the management apparatus updates the use usable or non-usable state to a non-usable state in a case where a use request of the right is received and transmits the use request to a terminal apparatus. And, the management apparatus permits the use of the right to the user by updating the usable or non-usable state to a usable state in a case where a notification of satisfaction is received from the terminal apparatus or the service providing apparatus, the notification of satisfaction indicating that the user, who requests the use of the right in the use request, satisfies a use requirements of the right. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156408 | MEMBER REGISTRATION SYSTEM, MEMBER REGISTRATION APPARATUS, AND MEMBER REGISTRATION METHOD - A member registration system according to an embodiment includes an information processing apparatus that performs an enrollment process in a member service of a store in which a wireless communication apparatus is installed. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a wireless terminal present within a communication area of the wireless communication apparatus, a determination unit that determines whether enrollment of a user of the wireless terminal detected by the detection unit in the member service is completed based on information stored in a member database, and a setting unit that registers information on the user of the wireless terminal as member information of the member service in the member database, when the user of the wireless terminal for which the determination unit determines that the enrollment in the member service is not completed is a user satisfying a preset enrollment condition. | 06-05-2014 |
20140149226 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a predictive information storage, a counting unit, and an allocating unit. The predictive information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as a future advertisement delivery destination. The counting unit counts a total of the number of user attributes of delivery target users which are not allocated on an advertisement delivery order request among the plurality of delivery target users. The an allocating unit allocates the delivery target user on the advertisement delivery order request so that a decrease in a total of the number of user attributes counted by the counting unit is minimized before and after the delivery target user is allocated on the advertisement delivery order request. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149212 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a score determining unit and an allocating unit. The score determining unit determines an allocation score representing a adequacy degree of allocation of a delivery target user on an advertisement delivery order request based on the number or the proportion of non-allocated users which are delivery target users which are not allocated on the advertisement delivery order request among a plurality of delivery target users for each user attribute. The allocating unit allocates the delivery target user on the advertisement delivery order request so that a decrease in the allocation score is minimized before and after the delivery target user is allocated on the order request for the advertisement delivery order request. | 05-29-2014 |
20140143153 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information distribution apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires individual identification information, product identification information, and user identification information. The information distribution apparatus includes a storing unit that stores the authentication information and the user identification information in an associated manner in a predetermined storing device. The information distribution apparatus includes a deciding unit that decides, whether the received authentication information and the received user identification information are stored in an associated manner in the predetermined storing device. The information distribution apparatus includes a distributing unit that distributes, when it is decided by the deciding unit that the received authentication information and the received user identification information are stored in an associated manner in the predetermined storing device, content that is identified by product identification information that is associated with the authentication information to the terminal device. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143040 | MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION SYSTEM AND MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION METHOD - A membership registration system according to embodiments includes an information management apparatus and a store membership management apparatus. The information management apparatus receives user information from the terminal apparatus, and stores the user information in a user information storage unit. When the terminal apparatus makes a membership registration request, the store membership management apparatus transmits to the information management apparatus a transmission request of user information corresponding to a user of the terminal apparatus and sets the user information acquired from the information management apparatus in association with a member ID as member information in a store membership management storage unit. | 05-22-2014 |
20140136317 | ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An advertisement information providing device, includes: an advertisement content storing unit configured to store impression-guaranteed type advertisement content and pay-per-click type advertisement content; an advertisement content type determining unit configured to determine which type of advertisement content between the impression-guaranteed type advertisement content and the pay-per-click type advertisement content to deliver when a page browsing request is received from a terminal device of a user; and an advertisement content delivery unit configured to determine advertisement content of the type determined by the advertisement content type determining unit among advertisement content stored in the advertisement content storing unit and deliver the advertisement content determined to an advertisement space included in a page for which the page browsing request is received from the terminal device of the user. | 05-15-2014 |
20140129350 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An advertisement distribution apparatus of the present application includes a storage unit, a calculating unit, a determining unit, and a distributing unit. The storage unit stores a value related to degree of association with content to which advertisement information is allowed to be distributed. The calculating unit calculates degree of association between content and advertisement information upon receiving a distribution request for advertisement information to be distributed to the content. The determining unit determines whether the degree of association calculated by the calculating unit is within a range determined by the value related to the degree of association stored in the storage unit. The distributing unit distributes the advertisement information as advertisement information to be distributed to the content when the determining unit determines that the degree of association is within the range. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129327 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY METHOD - An advertisement delivery device acquires a value regarding a degree of relevance with content to which advertisement information set to the content is allowed to be delivered when a delivery request of advertisement information to be delivered to content is received, calculates a degree of relevance between the content and the advertisement information, determines whether the calculated degree of relevance is higher than the acquired value regarding the degree of relevance, and delivers the advertisement information as the advertisement information to be delivered to the content when the degree of relevance is determined as being higher than the value regarding the degree of relevance. | 05-08-2014 |
20140114756 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A storage unit | 04-24-2014 |
20140100934 | ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND ADVERTISING METHOD - In a display device | 04-10-2014 |
20140095308 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A specifying unit | 04-03-2014 |
20140090025 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - Access restriction is performed on access to a page on which information is posted from a terminal of a subject. It is determined whether positions of terminals used by the subject and a manager, who is associated with the subject in advance, accord with each other. A relaxation operation is received from the terminal of the manager, when it is determined that the positions accord with each other. The access restriction by a restriction unit is relaxed, when the relaxation operation is received. A characteristic word of the page accessed by the terminal of the subject for which the access restriction is relaxed is acquired. The acquired characteristic word is transmitted to the terminal of the manager to display the characteristic word. A recovery operation is received from the terminal of the manager. The access restriction performed by the restriction unit is recovered, when the recovery operation is received. | 03-27-2014 |
20140090015 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An information processing device includes a meeting determination unit, an authentication reception unit, and an authentication determination unit. The meeting determination unit determines whether a user who is an authenticatee meets a user who is an authenticator based on information received from terminals used by the users. The authentication reception unit receives information indicating that an authentication operation is performed for the authenticatee from the terminal of the authenticator who is determined to have met the authenticatee. The authentication determination unit permits the authenticatee to use a predetermined information service, when receiving, from a predetermined number of terminals of authenticators, tho information indicating that the authentication operation is performed for the authenticatee. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089429 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND MESSAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM - As described above, when a communication control device receives a message transmitted from a user terminal, the communication control device specifies a destination of the message from contents of the message, specifies a type of communication service available by a user of the specified destination, and creates a message suitable for the specified type of service. Then, the communication control device transmits the created message to the specified destination. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089110 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD - Provided is a terminal apparatus including a display unit, an acquisition unit, a detection unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires advertisement information from an advertisement delivery apparatus. The detection unit detects a scroll state of a page displayed on the display unit. The display control unit sets an initial display position of the advertisement information to a predetermined position of the page in a case where the page is not scrolling and which sets the initial display position of the advertisement information to a predetermined display position of the display unit in a case where the page is scrolling. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089080 | ADVERTISEMENT CHOOSING DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT CHOOSING METHOD - An advertisement choosing device chooses an advertisement to be displayed in a display space of a predetermined size. The advertisement choosing device includes an advertisement storing unit and an advertisement choosing unit. The advertisement storing unit stores therein sizes of multiple advertisements of various sizes. The advertisement choosing unit chooses, from among the multiple advertisements, one or more advertisements whose total size is equal to or less than the size of the display space as the advertisement to be displayed in the display space. | 03-27-2014 |
20140088815 | DRIVING ASSIST SYSTEM, DRIVING ASSIST DEVICE, AND DRIVING ASSIST METHOD - A driving assist system includes a vehicle, a mobile terminal of a user who drives the vehicle, and a driving assist device. The vehicle includes an output device outputting vehicle condition information. The driving assist device provides driving assist content to the mobile terminal. The driving assist device includes a receiving unit that receives the vehicle condition information and a user identifier of the user, a storage unit that stores the vehicle condition information in association with the user identifier, and stores driving proficiency level determination information specifying a driving proficiency level according to the vehicle condition information and driving assist information specifying driving assist content according to the driving proficiency level, a driving proficiency level determining unit that determines a driving proficiency level of each user, and a driving assist content providing unit that provides driving assist content corresponding to a driving proficiency level to each user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140082748 | USER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND USER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A user information management apparatus stores various types of user information on a user in a storage unit, causes a providing unit to provide a user with an access code used to access the user information on the user stored in the storage unit, and when receiving the access code from the facility device installed in a facility that provides a service, causes the transmitting unit to transmit the user information corresponding to the service provided by the facility having the facility device among the various types of the user information stored in the storage unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081746 | PERMISSION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND PERMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A registration accepting unit accepts registration of a card. A storage unit stores use permission information indicating a disabled state of use permission of the registered card. An instruction accepting unit accepts a use permission enabling instruction of the card from a user terminal. A providing unit provides the user terminal with code information associated with the card for which the use permission enabling instruction has been issued. A changing unit enables the use permission of the card, for which the use permission enabling instruction has been issued and which is stored in the use permission information, for a predetermined period. When receiving the code information from an in-store device installed in a stored, a notifying unit notifies the facility device of whether the use permission of the right that is stored in the use permission information in association with the code information is enabled or disabled. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081723 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information providing apparatus according to the present application includes an identifying unit, a checking unit, and a notifying unit. The identifying unit identifies a store or a site which a user plans to visit by analyzing a posting page posted by the user. The checking unit checks a current location of a user terminal which the user has against a location of the store or the site identified by the identifying unit when the user terminal performs processing to register the current location. The notifying unit notifies an administrator of the store or the site that the user has actually visited the store or the site when the current location of the user terminal is the same as the location of the store or the site as a result of the check performed by the checking unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140080507 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, POSITION REGISTRATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A terminal apparatus of the present application includes a position acquiring unit, a searching unit, and a transmitting unit. The position acquiring unit acquires position information on the location of the terminal apparatus. The searching unit searches other terminal apparatus located near the terminal apparatus through short range communication. The transmitting unit transmits the position information acquired by the position acquiring unit to a predetermined server apparatus, as the current position of the terminal apparatus and the other terminal apparatus searched by the searching unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140068399 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an article acquisition unit that acquires articles indicated as data, a theme setting unit that sets a theme and an extraction condition of an article included in the theme, a selection unit that receives selection of the set theme by a user, an article extraction unit that extracts an article included in the set theme from the articles acquired by the article acquisition unit based on the extraction condition corresponding to the theme, a posting reception unit that receives posting of a comment corresponding to the article extracted by the article extraction unit from the user, a transmission unit that transmits the posted comment to the user selecting the theme including the article, and a condition update unit that updates the extraction condition of the article corresponding to the theme according to an amount of comment posted for each of the articles. | 03-06-2014 |
20140059588 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An advertisement distribution apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a display request including a viewpoint condition and advertisement information; an advertisement space setting unit that sets an advertisement space corresponding to the viewpoint condition to video data of an arbitrary viewpoint position generated based on imaging data having different viewpoint positions; an advertisement information setting unit that sets the advertisement information received by the receiver to the advertisement space set by the advertisement space setting unit; and a video transmitter that transmits the video data of the arbitrary viewpoint position in which the advertisement information is set in the advertisement space to a terminal device. | 02-27-2014 |
20140046769 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY METHOD, TERMINAL ESTIMATING APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL ESTIMATING METHOD - An advertisement delivery apparatus includes a related information acquiring unit, a similarity determining unit, terminal estimating unit, and an advertisement delivery unit. The related information acquiring unit receives a plurality of pieces of related information from each of communication terminals. The related information is information about each of the communication terminals and is unable to identify each of the communication terminals. The similarity determining unit determines similarity of the pieces of the related information received from the communication terminals. The terminal estimating unit estimates that the communication terminals are a same communication terminal based on the similarity. The advertisement delivery unit, when the communication terminals are determined as the same terminal, delivers an advertisement corresponding to a behavior of a same user to the communication terminals each serving as a transmission source of the related information. | 02-13-2014 |
20140032336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COUPON MANAGEMENT - An electronic coupon management system includes a coupon server apparatus. The coupon server apparatus includes an interface unit, a commercial facility ID (Identification) retaining unit, a submission receiving unit, an electronic coupon generating unit, and an electronic coupon publicizing unit. The interface unit is publicized to an external terminal apparatus via a network. The commercial facility ID (Identification) retaining unit retains commercial facility IDs. The submission receiving unit receives submission of an electronic coupon via the interface unit along with selection of at least one commercial facility ID from the commercial facility IDs retained in the commercial facility ID retaining unit. The electronic coupon generating unit generates the submission-received electronic coupon in a lock state which is cancellable by the selected commercial facility. The electronic coupon publicizing unit publicizes the generated electronic coupon via the interface unit to make the electronic coupon available to a customer. | 01-30-2014 |
20140019137 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND SERVER FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS - A speech synthesis system synthesizes speech using a reading text and a speech dictionary set, and includes a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes an interface unit open to the public; a speech input reception unit that receives an input of speech from an external terminal through the interface unit to generate a speech dictionary set; a registration information reception unit that receives registration information relating to a speech owner who inputs the speech from the external terminal through the interface unit; a speech dictionary set maintaining unit that maintains a speech dictionary set generated from the speech of which the input has been received in association with the registration information of a person inputting the speech; and a speech dictionary set selecting unit that allows selection of a speech dictionary set maintained in the speech dictionary set maintaining unit from the external terminal through the interface unit. | 01-16-2014 |
20130346214 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM - There is provided an information providing apparatus including a reception unit, a provision determining unit, and a request reply unit. The reception unit receives provision availability information indicating whether provision of user information for an advertisement delivery apparatus is permitted from a user terminal accessing any one of a plurality of site providing apparatuses or the like. The provision determining unit determines whether the provision availability information corresponding to the user terminal represents a provision permission in a case where an acquisition request for the user information relating to the user terminal is received from the advertisement delivery apparatus. The request reply unit replies to the advertisement delivery apparatus with the user information of the user terminal in a case where the provision permission is determined to be represented by the provision determining unit. | 12-26-2013 |
20130332269 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY - Provided is an advertisement delivery method for delivering an advertisement for causing a user terminal, which transmitted an access request to a web site via a link set in an advertisement, to transmit an access request to the web site again. The advertisement delivery method includes acquiring, by a computer, a behavior pattern of the user terminal in the web site, and delivering to the user terminal, by the computer, a different advertisement depending on the behavior pattern by setting a link to the web site in the different advertisement. | 12-12-2013 |
20130326027 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An information processing apparatus is connected to and communicates with a terminal connected to a first communication network and a second communication network based on a predetermined communication protocol. The first and the second communication network are operable using the predetermined communication protocol. The second communication network is a closed communication network. The information processing apparatus includes first and second communication units. The first communication unit communicates with the terminal via the first communication network based on the predetermined communication protocol. The second communication unit communicates with the terminal based on the predetermined communication protocol via a relay unit arranged in a communication line between the second communication network and the information processing apparatus. The first and the second communication units have the same IP address having an anycast relation as an IP address of the predetermined communication protocol. | 12-05-2013 |
20130282753 | SEARCH INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SEARCH INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information searching apparatus according to an embodiment includes a receiving unit that receives a search request including a search keyword from a user terminal; an acquiring unit that acquires advertisement information corresponding to a specific search keyword from an advertisement information storage unit when the search keyword included in the search request is the specific search keyword; a generating unit that generates a search result page for displaying a search result and a background image based on the advertisement information acquired by the acquiring unit; and a transmitting unit that transmits the search result page generated by the generating unit to the user terminal of a request source. | 10-24-2013 |
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