Hitachi, Ltd.

Takahiro Tanida

Noriyuki Takahashi

Chiaki Hirai

Tetsuji Ohno

Takashi Horibe

Youji Fujihara

Shoji Konno

Mikio Ikoma

Yoshiro Oka

In an object request broker (ORB) for processing requests or responses among distributed objects, a method and an apparatus for realizing a high processing speed of a process to convert from data (communication data) which is used in communication among the ORBs and is not specific to particular computers into a data format (program data) which is specific to a program language. A correspondence between the communication data which was transmitted and received by the ORB and the conversion into the program data corresponding thereto is stored in a cache which can be called at a high speed. When a receiving process of the same communication data cached at the second and subsequent times or a transmitting process of the program data occurs, the cached conversion result is used.

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR CONVERTING DATA FORMAT BETWEEN PROGRAM LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC FORMAT USED IN RESPECTIVE COMPUTERS AND STREAM FORMAT USED FOR COMMUNICATION AMONG COMPUTERS

A work assistance method previously stores at least a plurality of work items required for a predetermined project work, a plurality of work products to be achieved for the respective work items, and a plurality of tools for processing for the respective work products in a mutually related state. The stored work items are displayed for selection, and a particular work products related to the work items among the work products and a plurality of tools for processing are displayed on the same screen. A particular tool is selected from the plurality of tools and executed.

Operation assistance method and system and recording medium for storing operation assistance method

Only important portions in all of messages are extracted in the halfway or after the end of a discussion and are allowed to be referred to the user. The time for discussion is reduced, thereby smoothly proceeding a conference. An electronic conference system is constructed in an electronic conference system server in a manner such that a plurality of user clients are connected to the electronic conference system server through a network (not shown). The electronic conference system is made up of a message database, a message relation extracting unit, a message type setting unit, a message input and display unit, and an electronic conference summarizing system. The electronic conference summarizing system is constructed by a discussion path specifying unit, a message merging unit, a duplication message deleting unit, and a message summary file. All of the conclusions derived from a subject and its discussion tree are extracted, unnecessary portions such as quotations or the like are deleted, and the correspondence of questions and answers is arranged and is formed as a summary.

Electronic conference system

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Yokohama, Japan

Takahiro Tanida