Sony Corporation

Fumio Tsuyama

Noriyuki Murata

Hiroshi Abe

Hiroshi Nakayama

Fumio Kubono

Kazuo Omori

Yasuo Takeshima

Ryota Makiyama

Seiji Kanai

Takeshi Fujita

Yutaka Sato

Kunio Kawaguchi

Tomoaki Watanabe

Nariaki Hatta

Yasufumi Fujikawa

Hitoshi Endoh

Yohsuke Igarashi

Mariko Kobayashi

Masako Aizawa

Mariko Noda

An electronic money system terminates communication to a management center indistinguishably from a case in which the communication to the management center is completed within a predetermined period when it is impossible to complete the communication to the management center within the predetermined period. By switching an operation mode, a predetermined portable terminal is used instead of a communication line to upload and download data. When it is impossible to obtain data required for processing through the communication line, processing is performed based on data possessed up until that time.

Electronic money system and electronic money terminal

This invention relates to information operation carried out between information processing apparatuses such as computer, etc. mutually connected through network such as internet, etc. More particularly, this invention relates to an information picture utilization system where there is used 'information picture' in which picture information and related information for causing an operator to carry out a predetermined operation on the basis of the picture information are caused to be one handling unit, and a system for allowing notification to server carried out when processing operation based on related information included in information picture is carried out to have lifetime to thereby realize lowering of communications traffic taking place when information pictures are distributed and duplications are increased with time. In more practical sense, this invention relates to a system in which lifetime information is included in information picture itself, a system in which lifetime control is carried out on the basis of history at client, and a system in which lifetime control is carried out at the server side.

Information image use system using information image

The present invention relates to a system having an information image management server, an advertising agency terminal and a client computer connected with one another via a network, in which the information image management server extracted a client computer which meets a client specifying condition on the basis of client specifying condition information from the advertising agency terminal, then a message to carry out update or addition of an information image recorded in a management area of the extracted client computer is transmitted to the extracted client, and the client computer which has received the message carries out update or addition of an information image in accordance with the message.

System and method for selective advertising

An information image utilization system and so forth by which it is possible to particularly set the access right and so forth relating to utilization of an apparatus information image and utilization of an apparatus through the apparatus information image to perform authentication. A client () issues a request for provision of ownership information of an apparatus information image (indicating an apparatus possessed by a user of the client ()) to an information image management server (). The information image management server () extracts user IDs of owners of the apparatus information image and attribute information of copy information image data corresponding to the owners from an apparatus information image management table, and transmits the user IDs and the attribute information to the client (). On the other hand, if an instruction to change the attribute information or to delete the copy information image or the like is transmitted from the client (), then the information image management server () updates contents of the apparatus information image management table and updates contents of a folder management table.

Using an information image to perform a predetermined action

A content information image and an information image utilizing system with an access right and an authentication function. In the information image utilizing system (), copy information image data including identifying information (serial ID, master ID, provider ID, version information, and the like) and attribute information (ownership condition, time limit information, and the like) of the content information image is placed in an information image managing server (), enabling an information image providing unit to grasp and manage an owner of the information image. Use of the content information image is limited to a client () satisfying the identifying information and the attribute information retained by the content information image.

Distributing an information image

There is provided an information image utilizing system for setting in detail access rights with respect to performing communications and sending and receiving information through a user information image, which specifies a communication destination user or the like and performs communications and sending and receiving information, and performing authentication based on such access rights. A client () requests an information image managing server () to provide ownership information of a user information image of its own. The information image managing server () extracts user IDs of owners of the user information image and attribute information of copy information image data corresponding to those owners from an information image managing table. The server () sends the user IDs and the attribute information to the client (). When an instruction to change the attribute information or delete the copy information image is sent from the client (), the information image managing server () updates the contents of the information image managing table. The information image managing server () sends the updated contents to a folder managing server () to update the contents of a folder managing table.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Fumio Tsuyama