Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

The University of Tokyo

Motoji Ohmori

Toshihisa Nakano

Yuichi Futa

Yuji Unagami

Makoto Tatebayashi

Natsume Matsuzaki

Kaoru Yokota

Masayuki Kozuka

Masaya Yamamoto

Masao Nonaka

Hideki Matsushima

Tetsuji Fuchikami

Atsushi Saso

Manabu Maeda

Junichiro Soeda

Junji Michiyama

Takako Hirose

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Amano

Masato Yamamichi

Yuuki Hirose

Masami Yamamichi, Legal Representative

Kaoru Murase

Shunji Harada

Masataka Minami

Masaya Miyazaki

Tomoyuki Haga

Naomi Tomiyama

Koichi Kusukame

Hideshi Ishihara

Kotaro Hakoda

Akira Asai

Mikiko Matsuo

Senichi Onoda

Yoshikatsu Ito

Hideo Umetani

Kazuhisa Watanabe

Yoshihiro Ujiie

Shinichi Shikii

Soichiro Fujioka

Takeshi Matsuo

Yoshiyuki Miyabe

Shingo Hasegawa

Shuji Isobe

Hiroki Shizuya

Eiichiro Okuda

Masaki Takahashi

Takashi Morimoto

Kenji Shimizu

Shunji Ohara

Jun Yamaguchi

Takashi Katayama

Tsutomu Sekibe

Kazushige Yamada

Yuri Nishikawa

Yoshiaki Iwata

Naohisa Nishida

Jun Takahashi

Ryo Kitamura

Wataru Ikeda

Makoto Usui

Koichi Hirayama

Yuko Tsusaka

Kazuhiko Yamauchi

Taichi Sato

Mizuho Sakakibara

Rieko Asai

Takahiro Nagai

Tetsuya Inoue

Ryuichi Okamoto

Eiji Ueda

Naoki Yamamoto

Kakuya Yamamoto

Hiroki Takeuchi

Naoki Endoh

Hiroki Murakami

Katsumi Tokuda

Takehisa Kato

Takatoshi Ono

Tomoyuki Okada

Kazuhiro Tsuga

Masaki Yamauchi

Hisashi Takayama

Hiroshi Hamasaka

Kazuo Okamura

Yasushi Uesaka

Kouji Miura

Osamu Sasaki

Mitsuru Endo

Masayoshi Tojima

Fumihiko Sano

Mitsuhiro Inoue

Kazuo Kajimoto

Nanami Fujiwara

Futoshi Nakabe

Ryota Uchida

Masahiro Taguchi

Masato Murayama

Tomokazu Kanamaru

Mamoru Yoshida

A server apparatus receives a device ID indicating one electrical home appliance among one or more electrical home appliances and a gateway ID indicating that the one electrical home appliance belongs to a same owner, a same group, or a same home as the one or more electrical home appliances, determines whether or not the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, using a management database that manages device IDs indicating the one or more electrical home appliances and the gateway ID, and when it is determined made that the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, provides an information device, which is associated with the gateway ID and which differs from the one electrical home appliance, with notification information for confirming whether or not it is to be permitted to collect the log information from the one electrical home appliance.

Information management method

A control method that is used in a content management system including a plurality of servers, each holding a distributed ledger, and that is executed by one of the servers includes acquiring first transaction data from a providing device and storing the acquired first transaction data in the distributed ledger held by each server, the first transaction data including identification information for specifying content provided by the providing device and permission/prohibition information regarding whether to permit or prohibit the browsing of the content.

Control method, contents management system, recording medium, and data structure

A method includes: associating one or more data managers with mutually different models of a plurality of home appliances the one or more data managers managing data items generated by the plurality of home appliances; recording provision record information in which data identification information and manager identification information are associated with each other, the data identification information identifying each of one or more data items generated by the plurality of home appliances, the manager identification information identifying each of the one or more data managers; and determining, when the one or more data items include a used data item used by a data user, an amount to be transferred to a data manager that manages the used data item, based on the provision record information.

Method, server, and recording medium

The present disclosure provides a control method that is executed by one of a plurality of servers in a content management system that includes: the plurality of servers that own distributed ledgers; and a storing device that stores content, the control method including: acquiring transaction data that indicates that a providing device has provided content and includes at least identification information of the content provided by the providing device; and storing the transaction data acquired into the distributed ledgers of the plurality of servers.

Control method, content management system, recording medium, and data structure

A control method includes: obtaining first transaction data that includes a first variable indicating first information on a first contract made between a first user and a second user, and a second variable set to a predetermined value indicating second information is undetermined; storing the first transaction data into the distributed ledger; executing storing processing of reading out the second variable, and storing it into a rewritable storage in a server; obtaining second transaction data that includes a third variable indicating third information on a second contract made between the first user and a third user, and a change command for changing the second variable, based on the third variable; storing the second transaction data into the distributed ledger; and executing change processing of changing, according to the change command, the second variable from the predetermined value, after the second transaction data is stored into the distributed ledger.

Control method, device, and recording medium

A charging station charges an electric energy storage device, and includes: a battery authenticator that performs mutual authentication with the electric energy storage device connected for charging; a communicator that obtains, from the electric energy storage device whose validity is confirmed in the mutual authentication, a degree of deterioration related to deterioration of the electric energy storage device; a recorder that stores the degree of deterioration obtained by the communicator and that is tamper-resistant; and a controller that does not charge the electric energy storage device when the degree of deterioration of the electric energy storage device indicates that the deterioration is advanced beyond a predetermined threshold value.

Charging station, battery management system, and charging method that forgo charging when a degree of deterioration is advanced

A control method includes: receiving first transaction data related to a sign-up for service and storing the first transaction data received into the distributed ledger included in each of the plurality of servers, the service offering, if a goal condition predetermined for the service is satisfied, a token to a participant that is a user who signs up for the service; storing, into the distributed ledger, second transaction data indicating that the user is offered the token predetermined for the service, if it is determined that the goal condition is satisfied; and storing, into the distributed ledger, third transaction data indicating that the user is offered a deposit that is a temporary token predetermined for the service, at a predetermined timing included in a period from the storing of the first transaction data into the distributed ledger until when determination of whether the goal condition is satisfied is performed.

Control method, data structure, server, and recording medium

A control method of a fund management system including a plurality of servers that hold a distributed ledger, and executed by one of the plurality of servers, includes: receiving transaction data, the transaction data pertaining to payment processing for payment of a token from one or more applicants of crowdfunding to a management account, and storing the transaction data that is received in the distributed ledger held in each of the plurality of servers; determining, using a smart contract, whether or not a target condition of the crowdfunding is met; and outputting information indicating a result of the determining.

Control method, fund management system, recording medium, and data structure

An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.

A control method is executed by a first server among a plurality of servers in a system including the plurality of servers and a generating device that generates record information about usage records for users belonging to one group when a service provided by a business operator is used on a group basis. The method includes: obtaining, from the generating device, first record information about a first usage record of a service by a first user belonging to the one group; determining whether the first record information obtained is permitted under a rule based on contract content, stored in the first server, of a contract entered into by the first user and the business operator; and forwarding first transaction data including a determination result to a plurality of second servers and storing a first block including the first transaction data in a distributed ledger managed by the first server.

Control method, server, and recording medium

A method includes: recording provision record information in which provider identification information which identifies a data provider, data identification information which identifies each of one or more items of provided data generated by a home appliance, and value reference information which serves as a reference for calculating a data value of each of the one or more items of provided data are associated with one another; and when the one or more items of provided data include used data that is data used by a data user, determining an incentive for the data provider of the used data based on the provision record information. The value reference information includes an index value determined by each of a plurality of value indexes.

Incentive determination method, server, and recording medium

A control method that, in an information management system including a plurality of servers each having a distributed ledger, is executed by a server from among the plurality of servers, includes: receiving first transaction data that includes identification information and permission or non-permission information, the identification information being associated with user information that is managed in the information management system and relates to a first user, the permission or non-permission information indicating whether provision of the user information to a second user is permitted; and storing the first transaction data received, in the distributed ledger in each of the plurality of servers.

Control method, server, recording medium, and data structure

A control method according to the present disclosure includes: receiving, from a terminal operated by a first user who is one of parties that have concluded a first contract, first transaction data that includes a first smart contract corresponding to the first contract and a first electronic signature associated with the first user; executing a consensus algorithm with a plurality of other servers; and recording a block including the first transaction data in a distributed ledger. The first smart contract includes (i) content of the first contract which is a main contract, (ii) a variable that is provisional and used for identifying a second smart contract corresponding to a second contract which is to be newly concluded as a sub contract of the first contract, and (iii) a condition for creation of the second smart contract.

Control method, server, and data structure

Provided is a control method for a notification system including a notification device located inside a building. The control method includes: (a) obtaining face information of a deliverer of an article from an outside server; (b) obtaining a camera image of a face of a visitor to the building, the camera image being captured by a camera disposed outside the building; (c) verifying whether the visitor is the deliverer by comparing the face information and the camera image; and (d) when the visitor is verified to be the deliverer, notifying, by the notification device, a user of delivery information indicating that the deliverer of the article has arrived at the building.

Control method for notification system, and notification system

A first camera robot includes: a camera that captures an image of surroundings; an image recognizer that detects one or more subjects from within a captured image; a controller that selects an operation pattern of the first camera robot based on an attribute of one or more subjects detected, and causes the robot to operate according to the selected operation pattern; a communicator that transmits, to another camera robot, instruction information for causing the other robot to operate according to the selected operation pattern; and a shutter that outputs an image obtained by capturing the one or more subjects while the first camera robot and the other robot are operating according to the selected operation pattern.

Robot, control processing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing control processing program

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