Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090202222 | SLIDE SHOW DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH BGM, SLIDE SHOW DISPLAY METHOD WITH BGM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND PROGRAMS - A slide show display system with BGM includes at least one content provision device that stores at least one of image content and music content, a playback device that plays back the image content and the music content, and an information processing device that controls the playback device to display a slide show with BGM. The information processing device includes a content information notification portion that transmits information on the image content and the music content that will be played back to the playback device, as well as a playback request portion that makes a playback request to the playback device to play back the content. The playback device includes a content acquisition portion that acquires the content from the at least one content provision device and a content playback portion that plays back the content in response to the playback request from the information processing device. | 08-13-2009 |
20100031283 | DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE, DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD, DATA REQUESTING DEVICE, DATA REQUESTING METHOD, AND DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A data communication device is arranged with a setup unit for setting a true title of content data as predetermined data of content data set with viewing restriction, and setting a character string different from the true title of the content data as title data of the content data; a communication unit for performing data communication with a data requesting device; and a control unit for controlling transmission from the communication unit of the true title set as the predetermined data and the character string set as the title data based on whether or not a transmission request received from the data requesting device by the communication unit is a request based on input of predetermined information. | 02-04-2010 |
20110191825 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a wireless communication device including a storage unit for storing authentication information distributed to a plurality of users including a user of the wireless communication device belonging to a community on a network; an authentication unit for authenticating a peripheral wireless communication device based on the authentication information stored in the storage unit; and a control unit for forming a communication group with the peripheral wireless communication device when the authentication of the peripheral wireless communication device by the authentication unit is successful. | 08-04-2011 |
20110280152 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a wireless communication device including a control unit that controls the wireless communication device to act as a group owner or a client, and a communication unit that communicates with another wireless communication device according to control by the control unit, and, when a communication group having a topology where the wireless communication device acts as a group owner and the another wireless communication device acts as a client of the wireless communication device is formed, and a new wireless communication device to enter the communication group appears, the control unit determines whether or not to change a topology of the communication group. | 11-17-2011 |
20120110194 | DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is a data communication method of establishing a plurality of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connections between a first information processing device and a second information processing device and communicating each piece of data, which is divided for each prescribed unit, through the plurality of established TCP connections. In the method, the first information processing device dynamically changes the number of TCP connections with the second information processing device by notifying connection-upper-limit information, which represents the upper limit of the number of TCP connections to be established with the second information processing device, to the second information processing device, and by changing the connection-upper-limit information to be notified. | 05-03-2012 |
20130014225 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, SERVICE OFFERING APPARATUS, SERVICE OFFERING METHOD, COORDINATION APPARATUS, COORDINATION METHOD, PROGRAM, TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM, AND TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD - A communication apparatus includes an input part configured to input user identification information identifying a user ready to receive a service offered by a service offering apparatus via a network; an acquisition part configured to acquire device identification information from a coordination apparatus capable of offering the service in coordination with the service offering apparatus, the device identification information identifying the coordination apparatus; a transmission part configured to transmit to the service offering apparatus the user identification information input by the input part and the device identification information acquired by the acquisition part; a reception part configured to receive from the service offering apparatus authorization information indicating that the coordination of the coordination apparatus is authorized upon offering of the service responding to the transmission of the user identification information and the device identification information, and a notification part configured to notify the coordination apparatus of the authorization information received. | 01-10-2013 |
20130031606 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device, including: an acquisition unit for acquiring information transmitted from terminals; and a generation unit for generating a community according to a similarity degree between the information transmitted from a plurality of terminals, wherein, when a plurality of different types of information are transmitted from one terminal, the community generation unit counts, for each of the plurality of types of information, the number of terminals transmitting information similar to the information, and generates a community in which a user of a terminal is permitted to participate, the terminal transmitting information similar to information which the greatest number of terminals transmit information similar to. | 01-31-2013 |
20130262468 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the communication unit to receive a plurality of pieces of post information sent from a first user, to obtain a plurality of pieces of evaluation information of another user with respect to the received plurality of post information, to classify the plurality of pieces of post information into a plurality of clusters, and to determine, as an advantage cluster of the first user, a cluster with the highest evaluation in the plurality of pieces of evaluation information out of the plurality of clusters. | 10-03-2013 |
20140067972 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus of managing a community site. Upon execution of processor-executable instructions by a processing unit, the processing unit manages the community site in accordance with management data so as to permit access to the community site by a plurality of terminal apparatuses based at least in part on terminal data from each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses. The terminal data indicates at least one of a time or a location associated with the terminal apparatus. The processing unit further stores content uploaded from at least one of the plurality of terminal apparatuses to at least one storage device, the content being accessible via the community site. In response to at least one predetermined condition relating to the usage of the community site being satisfied, the processing unit sends a signal to delete the content from the at least one storage device. | 03-06-2014 |
20140126830 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device, including a cluster reconfiguration determining unit that, in a case where new data having positional information in a feature amount space is added to a data group in which each data has positional information in the feature amount space and is classified into a cluster based on a distance in the feature amount space, decides that a candidate cluster is to be reconfigured when the new data is classified into the cluster if there are a plurality of candidate clusters into which the new data is classifiable based on the distance in the feature amount space among the clusters. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129507 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device, including a predictive calculating unit that alternately recalculates a pair of matrices derived from an input matrix including an unknown element with reference to the input matrix, and generates a pair of feature matrices used to calculate an output matrix including a prediction value of the unknown element. | 05-08-2014 |
20140140678 | SLIDE SHOW DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH BGM, SLIDE SHOW DISPLAY METHOD WITH BGM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND PROGRAMS - A slide show display system with BGM includes at least one content provision device that stores at least one of image content and music content, a playback device that plays back the image content and the music content, and an information processing device that controls the playback device to display a slide show with BGM. The information processing device includes a content information notification portion that transmits information on the image content and the music content that will be played back to the playback device, as well as a playback request portion that makes a playback request to the playback device to play back the content. The playback device includes a content acquisition portion that acquires the content from the at least one content provision device and a content playback portion that plays back the content in response to the playback request from the information processing device. | 05-22-2014 |
20140195371 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a recommendation unit configured to generate a recommendation information for a target user based on a preference information of at least one associated person having a social relationship through a communication service or a locational relationship with the target user, and a communication interface configured to provide the generated recommendation information to be sent to the target user. | 07-10-2014 |
20140244846 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, RESOURCE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a determination unit that determines whether to change a number of processes allocated to one or more program modules, based on a measurement result of a load of each program module when the program modules that form an application are executed using scalable processing resources. | 08-28-2014 |