Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett-packard Company

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Hewlett-packard Development, L.p.

Marc McEachern

Toshiaki Sugimura

Shinya Nakagawa

Toshiki Iso

Hironori Bouno

Hidenori Shimizu

Taro Sugahara

Fumitoshi Ukai

Shoji Kurakake

Kiyotaka Otsuji

Hiroki Suzuki

Kei Yuasa

Karl Kamb

Hans Wolters

Masaji Katagiri

Motohiro Machida

An information management apparatusaccording to the present invention comprises: a databasefor storing information relevant to a printertherein; output request reception meansfor receiving an output request transmitted from a portable terminal; inquiry signal transmission meansfor transmitting an inquiry signal on the printerbeing an output destination to the portable terminal; communication means for receiving image data transmitted from the portable terminal; recognition meansfor recognizing the identification information of the printerby analyzing the image data transmitted in response to the inquiry signal; retrieval meansfor retrieving the information relevant to the printerfrom the data baseon the basis of the acquired recognition information; and printing meansfor outputting the information to the printeron the basis of the information relevant to the printerretrieved by the retrieval means

Information management apparatus, information output system, portable terminal, and information outputting method

A guide apparatusaccording to the present invention is provided with a service information DBstoring service information containing a service providing place and attribute information of a target user; a recognizing devicefor acquiring an ID from image data transmitted from a cell phone; a retrieving devicefor retrieving service information from the service information DBon the basis of the acquired ID and for retrieving such service information that attribute information of the user of cell phonecoincides with attribute information of a target user, out of service information provided at service providing places near the service providing place; and a route retrieving devicefor retrieving a route between the information about the service providing place retrieved and the cell phone; and transmits the route information and service information as guide information to the cell phone

Guide apparatus, guide system, and guide method

Data and/or services associated with a given object are easily searched by using a search system having a global unique object identifier, a metadata store, an input for entering the global unique identifier, a metadata reader for reading a set of metadata including the input global unique identifier from the metadata store, and a metadata search engine for searching for specific metadata by searching for a specific description sentence included in each metadata of the read set of metadata.

Data search system and data search method using a global unique identifier

Radio frequency tuner

Method and computer program product stored on a tangible medium that store instructions including providing a procedure file, storing and managing a plurality of tickets, each ticket including a first identifier given to a commodity, and searching, based on the first identifier and a ticket request submitted by a user, a ticket of the plurality of tickets corresponding to the first identifier. The method and computer program product then presents information about the commodity included in the ticket, information about a service that provides the commodity, and service provision content information acquired during the search.

System and method for searching and retrieving information regarding related goods and services

Liquid crystal television receiver including a tuner mounted thereon

Liquid crystal television receiver

Disclosed is a method of targeting a multi-cast message, comprising the steps of gathering user information related to one or more users, categorizing the user information into one or more interest categories, associating respective ones of the users with ones of the interest categories, receiving service information from a service provider, determining an association between the received service information and ones of the interest categories to determine at least one associated interest category, selecting users using the at least one associated interest category to determine selected users and communicating the received service information to the selected users using the multi-cast message.

System for and method for dispatching service messages over a multicast network

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Tokyo, Japan

Marc McEachern