Fujitsu Corporation

Kyoko Okuyama

Takahiro Kii

Kazuhiro Ohishi

Naomi Iwayama

The system enables a user to dispose information such as an icon to identify the article that the user posts from the client computer, on the display screen thereof, for example, at the position closer to an icon of an article that another user posted if the former user intends to express the opinion positively to the latter user's posted article. The server computer where many client computers can post articles and read the articles posted from other client computers, manages the coordinate data of the icons respectively disposed at the client computers according to the respective intentions of the articles and reproduces the icons on the display screen of a client computer, at the respective disposed positions so that a user at the client computer can instantly understand the intentions of the posted articles without reading the contents thereof.

Article posting apparatus, article relationship information managing apparatus, article posting system, and recording medium

An article retrieval support apparatus which is capable of limiting the number of identification data of articles among which retrieval is to be executed through displaying images of the identification data of the articles at varied transparency rates or miniaturizing rates corresponding to the novelty of the article or attribute data of the article such as repute of the article.

Apparatus for supporting retrieval of articles by utilizing processed image thereof

A communication apparatus which enables a user to have a more concrete image of a communication partner and to experience the fun of communication through a personal computer, wherein upon receipt of an article, a material representing a person who sent the article or a sending place is reproduced by means of a still picture, animation or sound corresponding to the person who sent the article, to the sending place or to the geographical relationship between the sending place and receiving place.

Communication apparatus for associating multimedia files with electronic

An electronic communication which gives a user a sense of affinity to the system and occasions the user's interest and participation will in the communication, by preparing a sentence filled with the user's attribute information such as a name, hobby, and scheduled events of the belonging group, and information which changes with time such as weather, then outputting the sentence as characters, or by offering news selected by the user from among automatically displaying miniature images, for example, as identification information of the news which is presumed to highly interest the user based on the information such as a hobby included in the user's attribute information.

Electronic communication system and recording medium

An apparatus for controlling article distribution end which provides vague communication manners to casually distribute an article to unspecified readers with no designation of distribution and addresses from a user, even if there is no designation of distribution end address by the user, and also provides flexible communication manners to induce a formation of communication between users in such a way as to surprise a reader to whom an article is distributed that the article is distributed accidentally as well as to allow the reader to reply casually and almost anonymously because the users do not known each other, and further provides the flexible communication manners to give a joy to a distributor that he has received a reply to the article distributed to an unspecified distribution end even if the reply is a casual one such as impression or the like, by automatically obtaining a random distribution end address to which the user is irrelevant in selection, from data base of distribution end addresses.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Kyoko Okuyama