Sony Corporation

Visionarts, Inc.

Hitoshi Endoh

Takeshi Fujita

Nariaki Hatta

Yasufumi Fujikawa

Yutaka Sato

Fumio Tsuyama

Ryota Makiyama

Seiji Kanai

Mariko Kobayashi

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

The invention provides a data-recording medium, a data-displaying apparatus, a data-providing apparatus and a data-providing system, each of which is useful in the course of exchanging information with other people through communications means such as telephone lines or dedicated lines, radio waves or optical communication. The medium, data-displaying apparatus, data-providing apparatus and data-providing system may be of the type that is user-friendly in, for example, applying an entry for a prize contest or a lottery or reservation by using a novel icon that makes it easy for the user to access data sources, retrieve data from the sources and file the data. An application menu is contained in the information related to the primary icon, the secondary icon or any lower-order icon displayed in the second management region (). When the application menu is selected, a computer performs a prescribed process, displaying a data sheet in the first management region (). When prescribed data is written in the data sheet, thereby making a reservation. Then, the computer has access to a data-providing server (C) and acquires a result-obtaining icon () selected on the basis of the conditions stored in the data-providing server (C). The result-obtaining icon is displayed in the second management region ().

Information recorded medium, information display, information providing device, and information providing system

A computer readable recording medium on which an image file, including data used to display an image, is recorded, wherein at least one of identification information inherent to the image file, pointers of one or a plurality of information, an index of a menu item corresponding to the image file, and an entity of a predetermined program is recorded in said image file.

Computer-readable recorded medium on which image file is recorded, device for producing the recorded medium, medium on which image file creating program is recorded, device for transmitting image file, device for processing image file, and medium on which image file processing program is recorded

In a network auction, bidder clients are enabled to recognize ongoing auction sessions substantially on real time. An information image which integrates as a single handling unit an image information pertaining to an auction exhibit item and a related information which guides to establish communication with a particular network auction server through operation of the operator in accordance with this image information is created, and down-linked to the bidder clients to speed up the auction procedure. Thereby, enabling the bidder client to access to a bidding home page on the auction site simply and easily, and to know the ongoing bidding competitive situation almost on real time by tracking the information image created.

Methods of network auction and network auction support, systems of network auction server and auction support server, and recording medium

The present invention has an object to facilitate investigation of access status in internet. To achieve this object, when the HTTP server () transmits prescribed image data, identity information meeting the access from the terminal unit () is generated in the identity information adding process (), and added to prescribed image data. The corresponding relationship between the identity information and the image data containing the added identity information is recorded in the database ().

Information providing system and identification information adding device

The present invention aims to share such a unit for controllably operating a wide variety of electronic apparatuses to be uniformly compatible with each of them. Concretely, such data pictures comprising picture data and relevant data as a single dealing unit are utilized. Data pictures are individually displayed on a display unit of the inventive operating device to enable user to specify () any of them. When a certain data picture has been specified by user's operation, a relevant data is extracted () from the specified data picture, and then, based on the extracted relevant data, a controlling data is transmitted.

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Saitama, Japan

Hitoshi Endoh