Hitachi, Ltd.

Hideki Kuwamoto

Tadashi Kuwabara

Keiichi Nakane

Masaki Fujiwara

Hiroyuki Koreeda

Naomichi Nonaka

Kiyoshi Masuda

Takao Iwatani

Koji Suzuki

Masahiro Yamazaki

Hitoshi Tamura

Tsukasa Hasegawa

Chiyo Akamatsu

Takahiko Nozoe

Shigeyuki Taguchi

A mobile terminal for automatically decompressing a prescribed application program based on the location of the mobile terminal. A table is created to indicate relationships between application programs and their respective corresponding locations. The mobile terminal constantly acquires information of its own location. Based on the information of the table and the location of the mobile terminal, the corresponding application program is decompressed and ready to be used by the user.

Mobile terminal and control method therefor

An electronic mail system and method enabling a recipient of electronic mail to intuitively and easily perform the processing requested by the sender in the electronic mail. The sender of the electronic mail with the system of the present invention generates information including icons information representing processing functions and operations to be performed by the recipient of the electronic mail and attaches the generated information as added information to the message of the electronic mail to be sent so that appropriate processing is effected by the recipient.

Electronic mail system and method

A system having at least one information processing apparatus such as a word processor and a printing apparatus as a print server for printing print data which is given from the information processing apparatus using print programs. When the print data which the information processing apparatus itself has is printed by the printing apparatus, the information processing apparatus transfers a print program suitable to print the print data to the printing apparatus, so that the printing apparatus prints the print data by using the print program transferred. In the case where a plurality of data are stored in a memory apparatus in the print server, the data is outputted to the printing apparatus in accordance with a predetermined order. However, when the print server receives an output request of the data from the information processing apparatus from the information processing apparatus, in the case where there is no data which is being outputted to the printing apparatus or whose output is waited, the output requested data is supplied to the printing apparatus without being stored into the memory device.

Output control method and system of servers

When dot density conversion processing of page data is effected by managing the position, size and data kind of each area for the page data including the portions which are formed as the data of different areas for at least two kinds of data of a plurality of data kinds each having at least one kind such as text data, graphic data, image data, and so forth, dot conversion means disposed for each area in such a manner as to correspond to each data kind is selected and conversion is made so that the result of conversion is drawn at a predetermined output position of each area.

Dot density conversion method and system

A system which comprises a message data base for storing help messages, a history buffer for storing the past statuses of an interactive processing system, an inference engine for determining a help message to be outputted, and a rule data base for storing the rules for determining a help message by said inference engine, determines an output help message on the basis of at least the past status history using said inference engine, furthermore outputs a help message by a user's command, selects a message data base to be used by the system at that time from a plurality of message data bases, or selects a rule data base to be used by the system at that time from a plurality of said rule data bases

History sensitive help control method and system

A method of help-information control for displaying help information on a display unit of an information processing system executing a plurality of application programs. A status management table for storing the executing status of application programs is provided as common to these programs. During execution of a given application program, the contents of the status information table are updated successively in accordance with the executing status. Whenever an operator makes a help request, the contents of the status management table in effect at that point in time are referenced. The table is searched for the help information corresponding to the request. When found and retrieved, the information is displayed. The search is performed using a program identifier, a message identifier, and a help message searching table that includes the position information containing the corresponding help data. Each application program is equipped with a control data part that makes it possible to reference help data of other application programs.

Method and system of help-information control

Method and system of help-information control method and system

A method for managing resources and an information processing system having three or more information processing units, with one unit functioning as a server and the other two or more units functioning as clients. A client unit can send a first resource, such as a document file, to the server unit for processing, such as printing the first resource. A second resource, such as character fonts, is generally required for processing the first resource if the server does not hold the second resource information. Together with the first resource, the client unit sends address information about the location of the second resource to the server unit. If the private character code is included in the character string, the server reads the private character font corresponding to the client which created the document file. Unfavorable change of a private character sent from a client to the server each time a new client is added to the system is avoided. Consequently, the document file may be processed, e.g. printed, by the server unit.

Method for managing resources and information processing system

A shared source managing method and device are provided for managing as shared sources a plurality of I/O devices by a plurality of information processing devices. The shared source managing method and device are designed to display a sketch of an inside of a building in which I/O devices are installed on the screen of each information processing device, display the design representing the I/O device at the installed location of each I/O device, and indicate the installed location of each I/O device to a user. Further, the method and device serve to display the type and the operating state of each I/O device together with the design of the I/O device so that the user can know the type and the operating state of each I/O device.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideki Kuwamoto