Hitachi, Ltd.

Rituko Kanazawa

Hiroshi Shimizu

Naoki Yamamoto

Akira Nakajima

Tadashi Kuwabara

Jun Ito

Yutaka Igarashi

Yasumasa Matsuda

Hiroyuki Koreeda

Tsukasa Hasegawa

Shinichiro Fukushima

Yukinobu Tada

Shigeto Oeda

Toru Numata

Hiroyuki Kumai

Tsukasa Yamauchi

Yasuhiko Kasai

Mayumi Ueyama

Yoshiisa Inoue

Maki Furui

Hajime Asuma

Hiromi Tomita

Katsuki Ikuta

Misuzu Mochizuki

Shigeki Hataya

For changing services to readers who desires to obtain electronic books exactly or minutely, an electronic book management systemdistributes at least electronic purchase certificates relating to books which are stocked at a bookstores owing a bookstore terminal device, in advance, to that bookstore terminal device. When buying the book(s), a reader obtains in an IC cardowned by her/him a purchase certificate(s) of that book(s) which she/he bought, from the bookstore terminal. When ordering to obtain the electronic book(s), the reader transmits the purchase certificate(s) from a reader terminal deviceto the electronic book management systemthrough a communication network. The electronic book management systemchanges over it's service when supplying the electronic book(s) to that reader depending upon the existence of the purchase certificate(s).

Electronic book distributing system by use of purchase certificate and devices therefor

When conference conditions are set by a conference sponsor, a conference sponsor agent inquires of schedule management agents of requested attendants about available time within a range of set dates, determines an optimum conference schedule on the basis of the available time of the individual requested attendants, sends to the conference sponsor the conference schedule for confirmation thereof, and sends a conference notification to the requested attendants. In order to permit an input value set by a user to have a range in accordance with the kind of parameter requiring the input value and conditions at that time, an input value acquiring element acquires an input value of a parameter necessary for a processing realized by an application element, the input value being set by the user by an input element. An allowable value determining element determines an allowable value to be added to the input value on the basis of information supplied from the application element and corresponding to the kind of the parameter and conditions at that time, and an allowable value adding element determines a different input value from the acquired input value by adding the allowable value to the acquired input value and delivers the acquired input value and the thus determined different input value, as input values of the parameter, to the application element.

Schedule management support system

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Kamakura, Japan

Rituko Kanazawa