Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Microsoftware Systems, Inc.

Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Information Network, Ltd.

Hitachi Microsofyware Systems, Inc.

Tadashi Kuwabara

Hiroaki Aotsu

Koichi Kimura

Toshihiko Ogura

Mitsuru Ikegami

Hiromichi Enomoto

Tadashi Kyoda

Keiichi Nakane

Hiroyuki Koreeda

Naomichi Nonaka

Tomochika Ozaki

Hideki Kuwamoto

Kiyoshi Masuda

Yuichi Yagawa

Kazunari Suzuki

Shigeki Hirasawa

Michio Morioka

Akio Yajima

Masaki Fujiwara

Hiroshi Shimizu

Shigeki Taniguchi

Hitoshi Tamura

Yoshimichi Kudo

Mayuko Tanaka

Shigeto Oeda

Michihiro Mese

Masaki Kawase

Tomohiro Esaki

Tooru Yokozawa

Junichi Seki

Takao Iwatani

Yoshihiko Kunimori

Toshio Kushida

Takahiro Yamada

Naoki Yamamoto

Yutaka Igarashi

Naoya Ikeda

Muneaki Yamaguchi

Yasumasa Matsuda

Takashi Takeuchi

Isao Nakagawa

Tsukasa Hasegawa

Shinichiro Fukushima

Yukinobu Tada

Hiromichi Ito

Toru Numata

Chiyo Akamatsu

Kazuyoshi Tokunaga

Hidefumi Goto

Toshio Kamimura

Yoshihiro Yamada

Hiroshi Kodaka

Toshiyuki Oda

Nobuteru Asai

Yasuo Sakai

Masatoshi Kasahara

Mayumi Ueyama

Yujiro Tatsuno

Takahiko Nozoe

Maki Furui

Katsuki Ikuta

Kyoji Mukumoto

Rituko Kanazawa

Kozo Mineki

Wataru Kitayama

Mika Nishiyama

Jun Miyauchi

Kouichi Hibi

Yuuichi Makaya

Misuzu Mochizuki

Shigeyuki Taguchi

An object of the present invention is to provide network devices and a network device control method which enable control network devices connected to an IP network, AV devices connected over 1394IF through gateway devices from the IP network, and home devices connected to ECHONET to be controlled without distinction among them. To achieve this object, a network device to serve as a controller comprises a controller application that detects a service of a target network device, using a message complying with an information exchange protocol common to the network, collects information such as an access method for the service, a function name, and parameters, and controls the network device upon request, and an information exchange protocol processing part that exchanges messages according to a protocol common to the network devices. The network device targeted for control comprises service that provides information for the controlling network device to perform control to the controller, and the information exchange protocol processing part.

Network device and network device control method

A non-IP device holds an interface ID defined by Ipv6. A gateway generates and holds an Ipv6 address for the non-IP device. The gateway serves to convert the protocol of a packet destined to the non-IP device from a portable telephone or a personal computer coupled to an internet into the protocol for a network connected to the non-IP device and transmit the packet to the non-IP device.

Gateway device and control method for communication with IP and IPV6 protocols

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

A device and method of displaying images and data on a display device. The device and method displays still and moving images in which at least one icon is associated and displayed with each image on a screen. A single screen may contain several images which change over time. As the images change so do the icons associated with them. Upon selection of an icon by a viewer, the device and method will display one of several possible advertisements or information associated with the icon. The selection of which advertisement or piece of information is based on information stored about the viewer. This information would include data concerning the viewer's age, income, address and hobbies. A list of selections made by a viewer is maintained and may be displayed at the viewer's request. The system may also force the display of advertisements if desired by advertisers.

Method and apparatus for displaying an image and data related to the image conditioned on user identifier

A memory device which includes dynamic random access memories for effecting data read and write operations, first and second data terminals for receiving data, and a controller having a first data input connected to receive first data, a second data input connected to receive second data, a third data input connected to receive a function mode signal, and operation unit for executing operations between the first data and the second data. The operation unit includes a function setting unit for setting a function indicated by a function mode signal prior to receipt of the first data. The second data is read out of a selected part of the storage locations. The operation corresponding to the set function is executed for the first and second data. The operation result is written into the selected part of the storage locations during one memory cycle.

Memory device

In an information sending and receiving system in which an information sending equipment and at least one information receiving equipment send and receive information through a transmission medium, a management message is sent from the information sending equipment to the information receiving equipment thereby to create a list of a content code expressing a data message registered on the information receiving equipment side within the information receiving equipment. Then, a data message containing a content code and data is transmitted from the information sending equipment to the information receiving equipment. The information receiving equipment selects a data message by comparing a content code of a data message and a list of its own content code. The content code list may be created within the information sending equipment based on a property value in an answer message from the information receiving equipment.

Method of sending and receiving information and system using such method

Information associated with broadcasting, information associated with a network, and information associated with a package are included in data. A terminal device has means for acquiring data from broadcasting, data from the network, and data from the package. The terminal device further has a means for displaying the data acquired by the above-mentioned means together or a means for displaying information included in the data as a link. This novel constitution allows positive information provision to users by a combination of three types of media, broadcasting, network, and package. At the same time, this novel constitution allows provision of new services by making the most of mass storage provided by package and up-to-date information provided over network.

Media-integrating system, terminal device, recording medium and broadcasting method for use in the media-integrating system

A memory device formed on an IC chip includes dynamic random access memories for effecting data read and write operations, first and second data terminals for receiving data from an external side of the IC chip, and a controller having a first data input connected to the first data terminal to receive first data, a second input connected to receive second data read, a third data input connected to the second data terminal to receive a function mode signal, and operation unit for executing operations between the first data provided from the first data input and the second data provided from the second input. The operation unit includes a function setting unit responsive to the function mode signal for setting a function indicated by the function mode signal prior to receipt of the first data. The second data is read out of a selected part of the storage locations. The operation corresponding to the function set by the function setting unit is executed for the first and second data. The result of the execution is written into the selected part of the storage locations via the input of the dynamic random access memories during one memory cycle.

One chip semiconductor integrated circuit device having two modes of data write operation and bits setting operation

One chip semiconductor integrated circuit device having two modes of

Information obtained through a network and information distributed from a package medium are mixedly displayed. A package medium 3 has a URL (Universal Resource Locator) and information for converting a directory structure in the package medium. A terminal has information for managing correspondence between data of a received electronic mail 6 and a URL of the data. The URL is used for designating data. When the designated URL exists in the terminal, data is read from the terminal. When the designated URL exists in the package medium, data is read from the package medium. The read data is mixedly displayed on one screen.

Package medium system having URL hyper-linked to data in removable

In the handheld terminal device, when a message reception unit receives from a host computer a new arrival message indicating a new arrival of a file (or electronic mail), a control unit analyzes the new arrival message to obtain identifier information for identifying the file (or electronic mail) and a telephone number of the host computer. After a line connection to the host computer is established by a handheld phone transceiver unit, a fetch request command for fetching the file (or electronic mail) is transmitted to automatically fetch the file (or electronic mail) from the host computer and make the user know the contents of the file (or electronic mail) by using a display unit. A FAX transmitting user designates a destination handheld terminal device and transmits FAX image data to a communication server (CS). CS stores the received FAX image data and transmits a FAX arrival message to a pager connected to the destination handheld terminal device. A user of the handheld terminal device informed of a FAX arrival by the pager confirms the FAX brief image data contained in the message, and if necessary, calls CS by a handheld phone connected to the handheld terminal device to make CS transmit the FAX image data and refer to the detailed contents thereof.

Data transfer system and handheld terminal device used therefor

Memory circuit

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Tadashi Kuwabara