Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080209036 | INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD OF DELIVERING INFORMATION THROUGH NETWORK, AND PROGRAM FOR IT - An apparatus including a section acquiring the information as to the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network, a section alternatively providing service to an access from the first network by using the acquired information, a section receiving and delivering the information from the first network by using the alternatively supplied service, a section changing the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network to the service providing state, when the apparatus receives the information including the contents from the first network and the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network is not in the service providing state, it is possible to change the information processor of the delivery destination to the service providing state and deliver information including the contents to the information processor of the delivery destination. | 08-28-2008 |
20090043769 | KEYWORD EXTRACTION METHOD - To provide a technology that facilitates a Web access based on information (search keyword) in an advertisement by extracting a search keyword from an image simulating a search box of a search engine and making a search with this search keyword. Image information is acquired, the image information is analyzed, a simulated search box area corresponding to a predetermined pattern simulating a search box is specified, and a search keyword is extracted from the simulated search box area. | 02-12-2009 |
20100023594 | CONTENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content processing apparatus includes an extracting part extracting undownloaded contents from a list of downloadable contents, a providing situation storage part that stores a providing situation of the contents that content processing apparatus provided to other apparatuses, a priority order determining part determining the priority order of download in the extracted undownloaded contents based on the providing situation stored in the providing situation storage part, and a downloading part downloading the contents in accordance with the priority order determined by the priority order determining part. | 01-28-2010 |
20110153848 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a control data request signal reception unit configured to receive a request signal for requesting transmission of control data; a control data transmission unit configured to transmit control data required by the received request signal to a communication device; a control data transmission destination recording unit configured to record device identification information used for identification of a communication device in a manner correlated with identification information for identifying this provided data; a device selecting unit configured to select device identification information recorded in the control data transmission destination recording unit in a manner correlated with identification information for identifying the provided data; and a device identification information transmission unit configured to transmit the selected device identification information to a communication device on a P2P network as device identification information used for identification of a communication device in which the provided data is recorded. | 06-23-2011 |
20110208828 | NODE APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A node apparatus includes a second computation portion that references cache information held by the own node apparatus, the cache information indicating a node holding an object that is a search target in an overlay network in association with the object, and calculates, with respect to the object corresponding to the node indicated in the cache information, a distance between an object location and a node of interest in a logical space in which the overlay network is constructed, the object location being a logical location of the object, and the node of interest being a node other than the own node, and a transfer destination selection portion that selects a transfer destination to which the cache information is to be transferred, based on the distance calculated by the second computation portion. The cache information is transferred to the transfer destination selected by the transfer destination selection portion. | 08-25-2011 |
20110231431 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND CONTENT SEARCH METHOD - A communication terminal device includes: a communication unit configured to connect to a network to transmit and receive contents among a plurality of nodes; a memory configured to accumulate a history table that stores a search history of a content search; and a processor configured to execute a process comprising: storing the search history of the content search in the history table; comparing metadata attached to a search object content that is a content search object with metadata attached to a content stored in the history table; determining whether the content stored in the history table is similar to the search object content based on the comparing of the metadata; and making the transmission unit transmit information inquiring about possession of the search object content to a node that possesses a content determined to be similar to the search object content. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231859 | PROCESS ASSIGNING DEVICE, PROCESS ASSIGNING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A process assigning device includes executing an operation including receiving an assignment request including device identification information, content and process identification information, determining whether identification of another device exists on the basis of the content identification information indicated by the received assignment request, storing the device identification information included in the assignment request in association with the content identification information and the process identification information, and the process identification information in association with the device identification information when determining that the identification of the other device does not exist. When the processor determines the identification information of the other device exists, the processor causes the device identification information included in the assignment request, and the assigned part information indicating the part that is included in the content data and that varies by device identification information to be stored. | 09-22-2011 |
20120002944 | REPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND REPLAY APPARATUS - A replay control method of controlling reply means for replaying video content executed by a computer, the method includes: accepting one or more keywords; retrieving, from pieces of correspondence information each containing fraction part information specifying a piece of video content and a fraction part in the piece of video content, and a word string expressed in the fraction part, each piece of correspondence information whose word string contains at least one of the accepted one or more keywords; and making the replay means replay the fraction part specified by each retrieved piece of correspondence information. | 01-05-2012 |
20120253674 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain an atmospheric-pressure value measured by each of a plurality of electronic devices, the plurality of electronic devices being located at corresponding floors in a building and having atmospheric-pressure sensors, respectively, a setting unit configured to perform processing, the processing including calculating a frequency of an atmospheric-pressure value having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values and, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating the classified atmospheric-pressure value with a floor of the building; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices. | 10-04-2012 |
20120281972 | VIDEO-RECORDING RESERVATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM - A first video-recording reservation management apparatus which communicates with a second apparatus and can receive the same channels. The first apparatus includes a video-recording reservation processing unit which registers video-recording reservation information of the first apparatus in a storage unit and notifies the second apparatus of such registration via a network when a video-recording reservation is made with respect to the video-recording function of the first apparatus, and a substitutional video-recording reservation processing unit which acquires registered video-recording reservation information from the second apparatus and registers the information in the storage unit when such a registration notification is received from the network, and executes a substitutional video-recording reservation by using the video-recording function of the first apparatus when the video-recording reservation of the second apparatus corresponding to the substitutional video-recording reservation information is not executed when video-recording cannot be performed due to power outage or failure. | 11-08-2012 |