Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Akihito Nishikawa

Koichi Tanaka

Toshio Yonezawa

Masaji Ueno

Akira Kanuma

Hajime Shiraishi

Toshiyuki Yaguchi

Eiichi Katsumata

Yoshihiro Motowaki

Shinichi Iida

A product sales supporting tool is provided where potential requirements for services accompanying product sales which will directly contribute to increased product sales, and systematic and easy formulation of product sales growth strategy are possible. This method comprises: generating required service characteristic information that shows user requirements for a service accompanying subject product offer, which are obtained from user preference data related to the service; prompting input of user evaluation data regarding each piece of generated required service characteristic information and user satisfaction level data regarding each piece of the required service characteristic information; outputting the input evaluation data and the input satisfaction level data in a visually recognizable manner on a display for each piece of the required service characteristic information; and outputting for display a quantitative metric importance level calculated for each respective quantitative metric, based on input of a correlation value between the required service characteristic information and a quantitative metric measuring the required service characteristic information.

Product sales support method and product sales support apparatus

Disclosed herein are a product design process and apparatus for quickly and easily defining an optimal product concept capable of conveying a high degree of customer satisfaction. In the process of the present invention, wants and needs information is analyzed, and, based on the analyzed wants and needs information, weighting is carried out with respect to evaluation indices which have been previously stored in a storage device and which are quantitative measures of the degree to which the user is likely to perceive a benefit latent in the product under consideration and inherent in the wants and needs information to have been achieved, an evaluation index having the highest weighting among a plurality of weighted evaluation indices is selected as a primary evaluation index and a product design concept for which the primary evaluation index selected is a maximum or minimum is defined.

Product design process and product design apparatus

A data communication control device controls data transmission between a network bus and a system bus. The data communication control device includes a network bus interface connected to the network bus, a system bus interface connected to the system bus. A port 1 of the two-port memory in an FIFo/RAM is connected to the network bus interface, microprocessor, direct memory access through a first bus. A port 2 of the two-port memory in the FIFo/RAM is connected to the direct memory access through a second bus. The microprocessor is connected to the system bus interface through a third bus. The direct memory access is connected to the system bus interface through a fourth bus.

High speed data communication control device having an uncompetitive bus

It is an object of this invention to provide a novel network interface system which is able to connect automatically to the respective network stations having different data transfer speeds, in order to avoid the above problems. According to this invention, there is provided a detector and a selector in the communication interface to automatically select the appropriate data transfer speed. In the above structure, the speed of communication data transferred by a network is one of two detected by the detector which is able to detect a transfer speed and provide outputs at a first level signal when the transfer speed is at one level and outputs a second level signal when it is at a second level. The selecting means selects the frequency to connect a network station in response to the signal output from the detector. As a result, users need not select the module by themselves, the system automatically select the module.

Network interface system

A multiprocessor system is comprised of a bus and a plurality of processor modules. Each processor module includes a bus arbitration block, a bus access control block, an address output block, a data input/output block, a clock signal generating block, a stop request block for requesting the stop of supplying a clock signal, an operation processing block for processing data, and a stop control block. The stop control block stores the contents of the bus access (a type of the bus, the address and data concerning the access, etc.) as is made by the operation processing block when the clock signal is stopped, and to what clock of that access cycle the bus access proceeds. The stop control block controls the bus arbitration block to electrically disconnect the processor module from the bus. After the restart of supplying the clock signal, the bus arbitration block, the bus access control block, the address output block and the data input/output block are restored on the basis of the contents of the bus access. Then the bus access that was stopped is resumed from its beginning. When the number of clocks of the clock signal is equal to that stored in the memory block after the restart of supplying the clock signal, the stop control block supplies again the clock signal to the operation processing block. Subsequently, the operation processing block continues the bus access.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Akihito Nishikawa