Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Xing Inc.

Xing Co.

Kentaro Ushiyama

Yuji Kiyohara

Koichi Iijima

Hiroaki Suzuki

Yoshihiko Hibino

Hideki Matsuo

Kazuyuki Shudo

Tomohiro Kudo

Osamu Tatebe

Yuetsu Kodama

Tsuyoshi Ohashi

Takuya Nagai

Kazunari Taki

Koichi Hayashi

Yasushi Yanagihara

Tsubasa Umetsu

A terminal device including a controller configured to display a video on a display in accordance with a display range, the video being configured such that its display range to be displayed on the display within a corresponding one of image frames constituting the video is variable depending on each playback position of the video, accept an instruction to indicate a specified display range that is a partial display range within a corresponding one of image frames constituting the video displayed on the display, and acquire particular display range information indicating a particular display range that is within a predetermined distance from the specified display range within an image frame corresponding to a playback position at a moment when the instruction is accepted, from a storage device storing a plurality of pieces of display range information indicating display ranges to be displayed within respective image frames corresponding to playback positions.

Terminal device, information processing device, and computer-readable medium

An information communication system comprising a plurality of node devices connected to a network, in which data to be distributed and stored in the plurality of node devices, and the data is divided into a plurality of items of division data, and the other node device acquires the division data from the node device storing the division data. The node device comprises a controlling unit configured to permit the node device indicated by a second identification information contained in the request information to acquire the division data indicated by a first identification information contained in the request information, in early order of the time when the request information is received based on the time information stored in the second storing unit.

Information communication system, node device, information processing method and computer-readable storage medium

A node apparatus of an information communication system in which a content is distributed and stored by an overlay network configured by a plurality of node apparatuses and which has a center server that manages the content to be submitted to the overlay network, the node apparatus includes: a first creation unit configured to create meta-information that is used in submitting the content to the overlay network; a transmission unit configured to transmit the meta-information created by the first creation unit to the center server; a first reception unit configured to receive the meta-information and an electronic signature verifying the meta-information, which is determined to be proper by the center server, from the center server, and a permission unit configured to permit the meta-information received by the first reception unit to be acquired on the overlay network.

Information communication system, information communication method, node apparatus and recording medium

A first information processing device configures an information communication system for communicating information through a plurality of overlay networks comprising a plurality of node devices connected to a network, the first information processing device that comprises an acquisition unit configured to acquire range information indicative of a range of the network of the request node device, a generation unit configured to generate identification information indicative of identifying a group to which the request node has transmitted the request message is belonged, based on the range information, and a control unit configured to control the request node device to join-in the overlay network corresponding to the range information.

Information communication system, first information processing device, method for processing information, and computer readable storage medium

A node device in an information communicating system: determines whether or not the node device is communicable over the IPv4; determines whether or not the node device is communicable over the IPv6; acquires a first routing table that is generated using a first node device communicable over the IPv4 from a predetermined device that is connected to a network if communication is possible over the IPv4; and acquires a second routing table that is generated using a second node device communicable over the IPv6 from the predetermined device that is connected to the network if communication is possible over the IPv6. If the controller determines that communication is possible over the IPv4 and the controller determines that communication is possible over the IPv6, the controller acquires one of the first one of the first routing table and the second routing table according to a priority order.

Node device, information communication method and computer readable recording medium

In a content distributed-storage system in which divided content data obtained by dividing content data of a single unit having a plurality of pieces of frame image data into a plurality of pieces is stored so as to be distributed to a plurality of node devices, unique identification information is assigned to each of the divided content data, each of the node devices can obtain the divided content data on the basis of the identification information. In the system, content catalog information having the identification information of at least one piece of the divided content data and key frame information including information indicative of an offset position of the frame image data in each of the divided content data, is stored. An instruction related to playback of the content data from the user is received.

Content distributed-storage system, frame image obtaining method, node device, and recording medium on which node processing program is recorded

A node is provided in an information distribution system having a plurality of nodes capable of performing communication with each other via a network and in which at least one piece of distribution information is copied and stored into a plurality of nodes, the node managing node information indicative of a node that stores the copied distribution information. The node includes: node information storing means for storing the node information; dividing determining means, when amount of the stored node information becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined reference amount, for determining that a part of the node information is divided and managed by a new node; and, node information deleting means for deleting the node information managed by the new node from the node information storing means.

Information distribution system, information distributing method, node, and recording medium

A node apparatus acquires root link information including a serial number of root page information, information for checking the root page information for tampering, and a digital signature for checking the root link information for tampering from a management apparatus or another node apparatus that stores the root link information through a network and determines a range of page information assigned to each node apparatus according to predetermined rules. The node apparatus determines whether page information that is a child of the root page information indicated by the acquired root link information is within the assigned range. If so, the node apparatus acquires the child page information and pieces of page information linked together from the child to leaf page information from the management apparatus or another node apparatus as page information assigned to the node apparatus and stores the acquired page information in a storage area.

Distributed storage system, management apparatus, node apparatus, recording medium on which node program is recorded, page information acquisition method, recording medium on which page information sending program is recorded, and page information sending method

The present invention is to provide an information communication system with its communication load of the communication network as a whole reduced. The above problem is solved with the information communication system formed by participation of a plurality of node devices mutually connected through the communication network, wherein a node device having a memory means for memorizing an IP address indicative of the specific node device of one or more, and an node ID corresponding to the IP address, wherein in a case where the node ID of other node device (node A) is further memorized in an area of a memory means, to which a node ID corresponding to a node device (node K) of a sending source of received information belongs, and in a case where a HOP number of from the node K to the own node device is smaller than a HOP number of from the node A to the own node device, an IP address and identification information of the node K being the information sending source is memorized in the memory means in place of the IP address and the node ID of the node A memorizing the node ID.

Information communication system, information communication method, node device included in information communication system and recording medium recording information processing program

An information communication system has features that efficient transmission of information to plural node devices can be carried out without a managing server, etc. and efficient collection of responses from the node devices can be carried out while suppressing loads imposed on a network. The information communication system has a means for receiving an information collection message from other node devices to the group, a means for transmitting an information collection message to one of the node devices in each of the groups when the group is further divided into plural groups, a means for receiving reply messages including response information, a means for generating new response information based on the response information in the reply message and its own response information, and a means for sending reply messages including the new response information to the other node devices.

Information communication system, information collection method, node device, and recording medium

A node device in an overlay network formed by a plurality of node devices comprises: a memory unit that memorizes a plurality of routing tables where a plurality of node identification information are registered, the node identification information is indicative of identifying the node device from other node devices; and a searching unit that searches the node device as a destination of a message transmission by referring to the routing tables. The node device also comprises a transmitting unit that transmits the message to the node device searched by the searching unit. An amount of the node identification information which can be registered in the routing table to be first referred to by the searching unit is more than an amount of the node identification information which can be registered in the routing table other than the routing table to be first referred.

Node device, information process method, and recording medium recording node device program

An information creating apparatus creates a leaf page information including one or more records with a key information to be compared with a retrieval key information inputted for retrieval of a record. The apparatus creates, based on the key information of the record included in the leaf page information, a judgment information used to judge a possibility that the leaf page information located in a position of child of the node page information located between the root and leaf page informations, and in lower positions than it, includes the record to be retrieved with the retrieval key information, and creates the node page information including the judgment information. The apparatus creates the root page information including the judgment information included in the node page information located in the positions of the child of the root page information, and stores the root, node and leaf page informations in a tree structure.

Information creating apparatus, recording medium, method and retrieval method utilizing data structure containing hint and link information

A terminal device includes: a time information receiving unit which receives measured time and an estimated error of another terminal device; an estimated error calculating unit which calculates an error containing the estimated error of another terminal device received by the time information receiving unit as an updating-use estimated error; and a time updating unit which, when the updating-use estimated error calculated by the estimated error calculating unit is smaller than an estimated error stored in an estimated error memory unit, stores the updating-use estimated error calculated by the estimated error calculating unit in the estimated error memory unit thus updating the estimated error stored in the estimated error memory unit, and adjusts a measured time measured by a time measuring unit in response to the measured time of another terminal device received by the time information receiving unit.

Terminal device, time adjusting method of terminal device and communication system

When acquisition processing of content information starts, a terminal apparatus executes acquisition permission determination processing of content information where permission probability is increased along with a lapse of time from starting of the acquisition processing of the content information for every predetermined period. When a result of the determination processing allows the acquisition of the content information, the terminal apparatus acquires the content information from another terminal apparatus.

Communication system, terminal apparatus, recording medium which records program of terminal apparatus and content information acquiring method

A management apparatus generates leaf page information including one or more records. The management apparatus generates root page information including falsification check information for checking falsification of child page information in position of a child of root page information or a record in position of a child of the root page information, and a serial number of the child page information in the position of the child of the root page information. The management apparatus also generates node page information including falsification check information for checking falsification of child page information in position of a child of node page information or a record in position of a child of the node page information positioned between the root page information and the leaf page information, and a serial number of the child page information in the position of the child of the node page information. The management apparatus stores the root page information, the node page information, and the leaf page information in the tree structure.

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Kentaro Ushiyama