Nec Corporation

Keisuke Hayakawa

Toshiyasu Nakao

Atsushi Kashitani

Mie Takahashi

In a communications network where first and second communication terminals are interconnected via a common communication medium such as a local area network, the terminals jointly establish an infrared light private communication link if they are brought close to each other. The first and second terminals communicate their network addresses to each other either via the local area network or via the private communication link, and establish a session between the communicated network addresses via the local area network if the strength of the infrared-light private communication link at the receiving end is higher than a decision threshold.

Network terminal with means for wirelessly establishing secure private link with external terminal

A page information display method for displaying electronic information includes a page turning operation detecting step of outputting a page turning operation detecting signal when a dragging is made on an operation unit in parallel or unparallel to a predefined page turning direction at a current page read from a storage unit that is to be displayed at present, a next display page setting step of setting a preceding page or a succeeding page immediately before or after a current page depending on a direction of a dragging operation to a next display page to be displayed next, when a page turning operation detecting signal is detected in the page turning operation detecting step, and a page turning process step of displaying the next display page set in the next display page setting step in place of the current page on a display unit.

Page information display method and device and storage medium storing program for displaying page information

To provide a user interface for viewing the information which is easily understood by all people, irrespective of the computer experiences, the present invention adopts a user interface having a metaphor like a book, newspaper or magazine, and for realizing the metaphor of this book, the electronic information is allowed to view in a unit of page of predetermined size therefore, the electronic information is displayed in a unit of page of predetermined size in an information viewing area of a display portion.

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Tokyo, Japan

Keisuke Hayakawa