Rakuten, Inc.

Kenjiro Numazu

Yusuke Murata

Ruka Sakurai

A plurality of pieces of send candidate information are stored (S). Each piece of send candidate information has sender identification information identifying a sender of an email, recipient identification information identifying a recipient of the email, item identification information (and), item information that are associated with each other. The item information includes element values of one or more elements. From among the stored pieces of send candidate information, two or more pieces of send candidate information that have different pieces of sender identification information, the same recipient identification information, and related pieces of item identification information are extracted (S). The element values included in the pieces of item information of the two or more extracted pieces of send candidate information are compared, and timings for sending emails corresponding to the two or more extracted pieces of send candidate information are set to at least two different timings, based on the comparison result (S, S, and S).

Email-transmission setting device, email-transmission setting method, program for email-transmission setting device, and storage medium

The information providing system includes the communication unit, the content database, the search unit and the map information generation unit. The communication unit acquires place information indicating a place. The content database stores place information indicating a place and specifying information specifying an expression part where an expression related to the place appears in content in association with each other. The search unit acquires the specifying information stored in association with the place information indicating a place within a specified range from the place indicated by the place information acquired by the communication unit from the content database. The map information generation unit outputs the specifying information acquired by the search unit.

Information provision system, viewing terminal, information provision method, and information provision programme

A plurality of pieces of send candidate information are stored (Step S). Each piece of send candidate information has recipient identification information identifying a recipient of an email and an email substance (and) that are associated with each other. The email substance includes a plurality of components (, and). From among the stored pieces of send candidate information, two or more pieces of send candidate information that have the same recipient identification information and at least one of the components related between their email substances are extracted (S, S, and S). An email substance () to be sent to the recipient is generated, based on common components related between the email substances of the extracted pieces of send candidate information and on components that are included in the email substances of the extracted pieces of send candidate information and that are other than the common components (S).

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenjiro Numazu