Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Seibu Software, Ltd.

Hiroshi Koike

Nobuya Okayama

Miyoko Namioka

Masayuki Orimo

Tomoko Kimura

Kumiko Igawa

Seiji Ichihara

Hiroya Onimaru

Hiroshi Tomita

Makoto Takahashi

Norio Takahashi

Nobuo Beniyama

Ryoichi Sasaki

Shigeru Arai

Shigetoshi Hayashi

Tetsuya Masuishi

Hiroshi Katada

Osamu Moriya

Hiroyuki Maezawa

Hiroshi Yoneda

Takeshi Arisaka

Taminori Tomita

Yuji Mizote

Shinobu Koizumi

Seiji Sakaguchi

Mitsuteru Omata

Koichi Yamano

Singi Domen

Shigeru Matsuzawa

Yuuichi Yoshida

Junichi Imanishi

Hidehiro Oomae

Kouichi Shimasaki

Yuri Honda

Etsuko Imamura

Shuuichi Kawakita

Kazuyoshi Tanaka

Masashi Amano

Koichi Taguchi

Kaori Kondoh

Hiroshi Isobe

A cyber mall system has a contents sales apparatus for selling digital contents, a contents purchasing apparatus, and a network for connecting these components. When digital contents are registered into the contents sales apparatus, digital contents personal using conditions are generated on the basis of digital contents using conditions and are provided to a customer. If the digital contents are again purchased after the delivery of the digital contents fails, as long as the digital contents personal using conditions provided at the time of purchase are valid, the digital contents are again delivered without again collecting a digital contents value.

Contents sales method and cyber mall system using such method and storage medium storing therein its contents sales program

A Business to Business electronic commerce (BtoB) system includes a message exchanging section, a task processing section and that conforms to BtoB standard specifications, and a difference processing section is added. For an outgoing business document, the difference processing section creates difference information between a past transaction and a new transaction within the range of the BtoB standard message format and sends the message to a business counterpart. For an incoming business document, the difference processing section restores a new transaction based on a past transaction and difference information.

Method for reducing communication data amount in business to business electronic commerce

A data transforming method is provided which can perform a transforming process of transforming collective order data for a plurality of products into individual order data for each individual product and a transforming process in which order data is inherited to a response data transforming process. For each combination of transform source and destination protocols, various designation information is stored beforehand in a mapping definition information area and transaction data is transferred in accordance with the designation information. Designation information includes information of a request for an individual order data division process and a collective response data collection process and information of a correspondence between data items of transaction data.

Method for transforming data between business protocols

In comparison to unnecessary page generation of the prior art, the page generation time according to the current invention is substantially reduced, and the generated page is efficiently accessed. Since in response to at least one of a predetermined set of update events, a page is dynamically generated in advance of a user page request and the dynamically generated page is stored, the current invention allows the efficient page access. The efficient page access is accomplished by storing the dynamically generated page as a static page at a URL identified by a page access call with an argument. Thus, the user accesses the previously generated dynamic page at a high-speed. The use of the prior art technologies such as proxy servers in combination further improves the cost of transmission of the page to the user according to the current invention.

Dynamic web page generation method and system

In a digital content distribution method to distribute digital contents via a network, distribution of a digital content is instructed according to a distribution schedule, the digital content is distributed according to the distribution schedule indicated, and a particular digital content is selected from the digital contents distributed and is then sold, thereby conducting the distribution of digital contents at a high speed.

Method of and a system for distributing digital contents

The present invention relates to a digital contents selling system for selling digital contents. Identification information of digital contents selected by a customer is received. Personal digital contents are generated by setting identification information for identifying the customer in the selected digital contents as status information for permitting the customer to replay the selected digital contents. The generated digital contents are sold. Thereby, a technique is provided for preventing the illegal use of the sold digital contents.

Method and apparatus for selling digital contents, processing program thereof and recording medium for the program

A delivery schedule management method of managing delivery schedule of delivery data in an electronic data in an electronic data in an electronic data distribution system. The system connects a delivery data server for inputting the delivery data, a digitization server for digitizing the delivery data, a storage and management server for storing and managing electronic delivery data, a delivery management sever for managing delivery of the electronic delivery data, and an electronic user terminal for receiving delivered electronic data and treating received electronic data to one another through a network.

Delivery schedule management method, apparatus for implementing the method, processing program thereof and medium having the program recorded therein

In a method of preventing an illegal use of digital contents, a status information for controlling the replay processing of the digital contents is set in the digital contents. The replay processing of the digital contents is controlled in accordance with a value of the status information thus set. Thereby, a technique can be provided which is capable of preventing the illegal use of the digital contents within the various types of shopping centers and retail outlets.

Method and system for preventing illegal use of digital contents, processing program thereof, and recording medium for the program

A cyber mall system has a contents sales apparatus for selling digital contents, a contents purchasing apparatus, and a network for connecting those components. When the digital contents are registered into the contents sales apparatus, in the case where the digital contents are sold by the contents sales apparatus for defining digital contents using conditions constructed by a server side access control to the digital contents which is executed on the contents sales apparatus side and a physical act restriction to control an access to the digital contents which is executed on the contents purchasing apparatus side that purchased the digital contents, digital contents personal using conditions are generated on the basis of the digital contents using conditions and are given to a customer. When the digital contents are again purchased if the delivery of the digital contents fails, so long as the digital contents personal using conditions given at the time of purchase are valid, the digital contents are again delivered without again collecting a digital contents value.

Product data information to be stored in a product database is defined by setting essential items necessary to define products with respect to their essential parts, and setting optional items necessary to define optional products deriving from standards product defined by their essential items. A product definition section produces product data information on standard products based on the set essential items, and produces product data information on optional products based on the set optional items. This product data information is transferred from an electronic shop client to an electronic mall server to be stored into the product database through a product registering section.

Electronic shopping system and method of defining electronic catalogue

The same data is processed in parallel by a plurality of different algorithms for deriving the same processing result from the same data. When an algorithm derives a processing result first, the processing result is used and the processing by the other algorithms is stopped or interrupted and updated to the same data which is reflected by the processing result data. This updated data is processed in parallel once again by a plurality of different algorithms, and when an algorithm derives another processing result first, the processing result is used, and the above processing is repeated, and inference. Consequently, sorting, data compression, simulation, and neurolearning can be processed at the highest possible speed.

Method of parallel processing for inference and a system therefor

A slip processing method for simplifying a processing of a job which uses a form of a predetermined format at a frequency of once a long term such as month, quarter or year and in which an input form is changed at a frequency of once per several times of use. The method comprises storing format information of an input form and data information in one file, providing a format of the input form including a plurality of tables each comprising a plurality of items (cells), storing data in corresponding ones of the items, executing a retrieval of the items and a totalization of data in the items with referencing a file which stores the format information and the data of the input form and storing the format information and the data of the input form and the processed information in a form which is transmittable through a network.

Slip processing method processing data from slips with varying formats

Actual data which is satisfied by a condition string which can be judged within actual data is stored in each .alpha. memory, and combined actual data is generated from each of the .alpha. memories by a combined actual data generator, and the inter-actual data condition of the generated combined actual data is evaluated by an inter-data condition evaluation for actual data so as to specify an instance with no conflict resolution process being performed and to reduce the memory capacity necessary for the evaluation process by a production system.

Method and system for a production system

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