Justsystem Corporation

Kazunori Ukigawa

Hiroki Yamashita

Hatsuko Ukigawa

Akira Yamada

Hiroki Amou

Seiko Wakatsuki

Akinori Sakai

An agent device is connected to a user device for browsing a merchant site, for selling products online and being served up on the Internet, the merchant site, and a server device of a credit-card company. In the case where an instruction of purchasing a product browsed by the user device is output, the instruction is sent to the agent device. The agent device extracts a credit card number of a credit card held by a user having purchased the product, and inquires of the server device of the credit card company whether the product is to be purchased with the credit card. As an inquiry result, in the case where the product can be purchased online with the credit card, the agent device sends an instruction that the user purchases the product online with the credit card.

Account settlement method in online shopping

A server device, which has a content storage section, a content provider, a program table provider, a request processor and the like and can be accessed by a plurality of client devices, is arranged on the Internet. The content provider has a list, in which information about contents with relevance to their transmission times are registered. The content provider reads out the contents from the content storage section based on the list. The request processor controls the content provider to sent the read contents to a client device which has sent a request for transmission of the contents. The program table provider provides the client device, whose request is processed by the request processor, with a program table storing classifications of contents with relevance to their corresponding transmission times. This program table includes information for setting reservation for transmission of contents. The client device, which has received the program table, inputs a request for transmission of contents in accordance with the program table, makes the server device to send the contents to the client device, and makes the server device to send the contents at a time which is reserved and set as transmission time in accordance with the program table.

Information server system

Prepare a server comprising an information provider, a login processor, a user storage unit, a mail sender, and the like, on the internet. The information provider provides information while improving contents of incentive (prize or the like) as increase of the number of terminals which have logged in via the internet. The login processor refers to the user storage unit. If the terminal being login is a new corner, the login processor notifies the information provider of it. The information provider counts the number of the terminals which are logging in based on the notification. The mail sender sends mails for promoting usage of new information (promotional mail) to users who have already utilized the similar service. The mail sender also sends the promotional mails to persons who have introduced by the members of the service.

Method for providing digital contents with offering access incentive

A server device having a content provider, a voice provider and an access number counter, etc. is arranged on the Internet. The content provider provides terminal devices connected to the Internet with the contents (e.g., contents of a chat) which are updated at predetermined intervals. The access number counter counts the number of terminal devices which have currently logged in to the contents provided by the content provider and have not logged out therefrom. The voice provider sets a voice level in accordance with a value counted by the access number counter, every time new contents are provided by the content provider, and provides voice data.

Network system and method for providing voice information to participants in a chat session set at an audible level corresponding to the number of participants currently logged in the chat session

Image data and natural language data indicating a visual impression of an image prepared based on the image data are correlated to each other and stored in the correlated form in the image database, and when retrieving an image using the retrieving section, natural language data indicating a text for retrieval is inputted from a natural language input section, and image data relating to natural language data having a common visual impression is extracted from the image database by collating the inputted natural language data to natural language data on the image database.

Method and apparatus for managing images, a method and apparatus for

The present invention comprises a Chinese character information outputting step for outputting Chinese character information corresponding to an input arbitrary character string by referring to a Chinese dictionary in which Chinese character information comprising a command and/or at least one Chinese character correlated to a character string. Chinese character information is received from the Chinese character information outputting step and the correlated Chinese character is displayed as a candidate for conversion in a list. The present invention includes a selecting step of selecting a desired Chinese character or a command from the Chinese character information displayed in the list and a determining step for determining which of a Chinese character and a command has been selected. The command is executed when a command has been selected and the input character string is replaced with Chinese characters displayed when it is determined in the determining step that a Chinese character has been selected.

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Tokushima, Japan

Kazunori Ukigawa