Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Masahiro Chiba

Toru Ueda

Kazuhiro Miki

Kazuyuki Nako

Masaki Hashiura

Kazunori Shibata

Masaya Nakamura

Satoshi Kitagawa

In the present disclosure, an appropriate control-target device is caused to carry out an operation without the control-target device being designated. A linking system () includes: a linking server (); a device controlling server (); one or more devices (); and an information providing server (). In a case where the device controlling server () has received from the linking server () an instruction for carrying out an operation in accordance with a linking rule, the device controlling server transmits () a command to carry out the operation to at least one device, the at least one device having been identified by the device controlling server () from among the one or more devices () in accordance with a user specified in the linking rule. The information providing server () transmits, to the linking server (), notification of a trigger for the operation.

Linkage system and device control server

Within a certain time period, an action is executed according to a circumstance in which a plurality of events occur. A linking server () includes (i) an event detecting section () which detects an occurrence of each of a plurality of events specified in a linking rule and (ii) an action execution control section () which controls a device controlling server () to execute an action in a case where an occurrence of one of the plurality of events is detected and then, within the certain time period, occurrences of all of remaining ones of the plurality of events are detected.

Operation execution control server, rule generation server, terminal device, linkage system, method for controlling operation execution control server, method for controlling rule generation server, method for controlling terminal device, and computer-readable recording medium

A network system includes a plurality of terminals including at least a first terminal and a second terminal, one or more devices including at least a first device, and a server adapted to refer to group information. The server refers to the group information and determines whether to accept a request for the first device from the second terminal, when in a state of accepting a request for the first device from the first terminal.

Network system, server, terminal, and information processing method

A provider server () includes: a receiving section () for obtaining a redirection URL (); an information registering section () for registering user information (); an access authorizing section () for authorizing the consumer server () to make access to the user information; a sending section () for sending the redirection URL () to a smartphone (); an authorization judging section () for judging whether or not the access is authorized; and a sending section () for sending the user information () to the consumer server ().

Information processing device and method for controlling information processing device

A speech server (SS) managing one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information (STSI) and user-specifying information (USI), each of pieces of STSI allowing a corresponding one of one or a plurality of speech terminals to be specified, USI being of a user who is capable of causing the corresponding one of the one or a plurality of speech terminals to output speech. The SS receives USI and transmit the one or a plurality of pieces of STSI associated with USI. The SS receives (i) STSI selected from the one or a plurality of pieces of STSI transmitted and (ii) speech information indicative of speech content to be outputted as speech. The SS instructs a speech terminal to output the speech content as speech, the speech terminal being identified among the one or a plurality of speech terminals by STSI received.

Speech server managing one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information and user-specifying information

A transfer apparatus transfers a data item included in a web page to a predetermined terminal. The transfer apparatus includes a data region extraction unit extracting a plurality of data items from a web page transmitted towards a client computer, a button-added web page generation unit generating transmission data causing a select button of a relevant data item to appear in response to specifying a display region of the corresponding data item at the client computer according to the extracted data item, and a data format conversion unit receiving request data from a client computer in response to transmission data, and converting the data format of the requested data for transfer to a terminal.

Information transfer apparatus and method transferring to another terminal information transmitted from server to client, and machine-readable recording medium recorded with program realizing information transfer method

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Osaka, Japan

Masahiro Chiba