Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Kunio Gobara

Hajime Maekawa

Tomoki Ogawa

Masayuki Kozuka

Junya Suzuki

Mitsuki Yamada

Shinya Nakai

Masaya Yamamoto

Yoshishige Yoshikawa

Masashi Hitotsuya

Masanobu Koyama

Naoya Takao

Kenichi Matsumoto

Shota Hario

Makoto Yoshino

Yosuke Matsushita

Atsushi Tanaka

Tadashi Kunihira

Satoru Matsunaga

Kazuki Sato

An information presentation method includes: sequentially obtaining, from a first appliance, appliance data including an operation status of the first appliance; receiving, from a second appliance different from the first appliance, notification of an opportunity of presenting information by the second appliance; determining, after receiving the notification in the receiving, whether to present the information by the second appliance, based on the appliance data obtained in the sequentially obtaining; and instructing the second appliance to present the information when determining to present the information by the second appliance in the determining, and prohibiting the second appliance from presenting the information when determining not to present the information by the second appliance in the determining.

Information presentation method, information presentation system, and information presentation apparatus

A device management system includes: a server; base stations for long-distance wireless communication; and a device that communicatively connect to one of the base stations and that each sequentially transmit, to the server via the one base station, operation information indicating the current operation state of the device. Upon sequentially receiving the operation information, each of the base stations sequentially transmits, to the server, unique information unique to the base station together with the sequentially received operation information. The server sequentially receives, and sequentially stores in association with each other, the operation information and the unique information. When first and second unique information received at first and second times, respectively, are different, the server separately manages first operation information received in a first period ending at the first time and second operation information received in a second period starting at the second time.

Device management system and device management method

A device management method executed in a server communicatively connected, via a network, to a plurality of devices and a first operation device associated with a first user identifier identifying a first user, includes: receiving, from the first operation device, a request to associate the first user identifier and a first device identifier identifying a first device among the plurality of devices; and when, in correspondence information stored in a storage device and including device identifiers identifying devices associated with user identifiers identifying users, (i) the first device identifier is associated with a second user identifier different from the first user identifier and (ii) the first user identifier is associated with a second device identifier identifying a second device different from the first device among the plurality of devices, storing the second device identifier and the second user identifier in association with each other.

Device management method and device management system

A control method for controlling a device that includes a plurality of communication modules including a long-distance communication module that is a communication module for long-distance wireless communication and a short-distance communication module that is a communication module for short-distance wireless communication, the device being capable of being connected through each of the plurality of communication modules to a server that manages the device, the control method includes: receiving information necessary to the short-distance wireless communication by the short-distance communication module, when the long-distance communication module and the short-distance communication module are not operating; determining whether the information satisfies a condition indicating that the information received in the receiving is sufficient for a first connection to the server using the short-distance communication module; and causing the long-distance communication module to start operating, when it is determined that the information does not satisfy the condition.

Control method for a device that includes a long-distance communication module and a short-distance communication module, the device, and a system including the device

Apparatus includes a plurality of wireless communication modules for connecting apparatus to a server that manages the apparatus via a plurality of networks different from one another; storage that stores, for each of the networks, a characteristic regarding communication; acquirer that acquires communication information indicating, for each of communication modules, whether communication via the communication module is possible; identifier that identifies a specific communication module from among communication modules, the specific communication module being indicated by the communication information as being a communication module via which communication is possible, and being selected based on the characteristic; and controller that causes the specific communication module identified by identifier to connect to the server to enable communication.

Apparatus, system, and communication method

A device management system includes: a server communicatively connected to a network; a base station for long-distance wireless communication that is communicatively connected to the network; and a device that is communicatively connected to the base station and transmits, to the server via the base station, state information indicating a state of the device. The server receives the state information from the device, generates notification information in accordance with the received state information, and transmits the generated notification information to the device.

Device management system, device, and device management method

A device includes: N communication modules, a selector that selects one communication module, an obtainer that obtains a reception strength of a signal, a generator that generates an image that includes 2N display regions associated with the N communication modules in order of communication speed from slower to faster per two display regions counted from a reference position along one direction, and a display. The generator generates, as the image, an image displaying (i) a graphic of a first type in, among the two display regions associated with the one communication module, more display regions counted from proximity to the reference position along the one direction, with an increase in the reception strength of the one communication module, and (ii) the graphic of the first type in each of two display regions associated with a communication module that communicates at a slower speed than the one communication module.

Device and method

A content receiving device includes: a content receiver that acquires a content item; a generator that generates a thumbnail of the content item, which is acquired by the content receiver; a thumbnail storage that stores the thumbnail generated by the generator; a request receiver that receives the acquisition request for the thumbnail; and a transmitter. The transmitter transmits the thumbnail stored in the thumbnail storage, to a transmission source of the acquisition request for the thumbnail, in response to the acquisition request for the thumbnail being received by the request receiver.

Content reception device, content reception system, content reception device control method, and program

A connection method is a connection method for a case where a terminal inside home is connected to a router inside home connected to a first network. This connection method includes: an acquisition step of acquiring, by a portable terminal, connection information used for connection for the portable terminal to make direct communication with the terminal inside home from a support server connected to the first network; and a storage step of storing the connection information acquired in the acquisition step in the portable terminal. The connection information includes an IP address and port number which are set in the router inside home to correspond to the terminal inside home.

Connection method, connection system, portable terminal, and program

A server apparatus includes a storage, an acquisition unit, and a controller. The storage stores association information that associates access information on the program processing apparatus corresponding to user identification information with the user identification information. The acquisition unit acquires the user identification information and program-specifying information that specifies a broadcast program. The controller specifies the access information on the association information from the user identification information. Then, the controller causes the program processing apparatus to perform processing regarding the broadcast program specified by the program-specifying information acquired by the acquisition unit by using the access information.

Information processing system and server apparatus

In communication system which includes server, information processing device and receiving device that performs transfer of a content item, information processing device includes a display broadcast station list receiver that receives display information for displaying a list of one or more content items from server through a first connection made based on a first communication mode. Moreover, information processing device includes a P2P connection implementation unit that establishes, between receiving device and information processing device, a second connection made based on a second communication mode for performing communication between receiving device and information processing device without passing via server. Furthermore, information processing device includes: a broadcast station selector that selects at least one content item out of the one or more content items based on the display information; and an already converted broadcast receiver that receives the transfer of the at least one selected content item from receiving device through the established second connection.

Communication system, information processing device, and communication method

A content receiving device includes: a content receiver that acquires a content item; a request receiver that receives an acquisition request for a thumbnail; a generator; and a transmitter. The generator generates a thumbnail of the content item, which is acquired by the content receiver, in response to the acquisition request for the thumbnail being received by the request receiver. The transmitter transmits the thumbnail generated by the generator, to a transmission source of the acquisition request for the thumbnail.

An information processing device includes a display recording list receiver that receives display information for displaying a list of one or more content items from a server through a first connection made based on a first communication mode. Moreover, the information processing device includes: a P2P connection implementation unit that establishes, between a receiving device and the information processing device, a second connection made based on a second communication mode for performing communication between the receiving device and information processing device without passing via the server; a recorded program selector that selects a content item out of the one or more content items based on the display information; and a recorded program receiver that receives the selected content item from the receiving device through the second connection.

Communication system including a first communication mode with a server that is concurrent with a second communication mode with a P2P client, information processing device, and a communication method

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Kunio Gobara