Sony Corporation

Takashi Hosoda

Akira Yaegashi

Takuji Maekawa

Takahisa Hakoishi

Yasuyuki Hattori

Masaki Takemura

Hiroshi Sugaya

Dietrich Falk

Chu Hui Chu

Boyd Weston

A method for distributing advertisement data to display terminal devices from a distribution server via a relay server. The relay server receives status notifications of the display terminal devices and transmits a tenor of receipt of the status notifications to the display terminal devices. The distribution server receiving status notifications and transmits the tenor of receipt of the status notifications to the relay server. The distribution server determines whether the reproduction schedule of the advertisement data has been changed and transmits a notification on a change. If the distribution server receives a request for acquisition of the as-changed reproduction schedule, the distribution server sends the as-changed reproduction schedule to the relay server. If the relay server determines that the reproduction schedule acquired from the distribution server has been changed, the relay server transmits the notification on the change of the reproduction schedule.

Data processing system and data processing method

A data processing system includes a distributing device that distributes edited advertisement data and display terminal devices that display the edited advertisement data distributed to a first place in a predetermined territory. The display terminal devices are each provided with a first reader/writer configured to read out from and/or write in an IC card having stored memory identification data. The data processing system also includes a second reader/writer configured to read out from and/or write in an IC card. The data processing system also includes a hysteresis management device that manages hysteresis data HD, HDfrom the first reader/writer, correlated with the memory identification data, and hysteresis data HDfrom the second reader/writer, correlated with the memory identification data. The data processing system further includes a hysteresis analysis device that correlates the hysteresis data HD, HDfor each of the memory identification data to generate analysis data.

A user can select a style sheet applied to an XML document as broadcast program information on a screen. In addition, the user can select display mode/non-display mode of broadcast program information. When the user has selected the display mode, he or she can select link information include mode/link information non-include mode for a menu button. Since a style sheet described in an XSL language or a CSS language is text format data, the use can read it. Thus, the user can edit and update a style sheet through a console. As a result, data in a markup language format can be provided in a representation format corresponding to user's favorite. Thus, the efficiency and flexibility of data delivery are improved.

Contents receiving system and contents receiving method

To provide a monitoring system and method that allows customization of a monitoring system and method according to a user's instruction, thereby achieving a higher flexibility in configuring the monitoring scheme. The monitoring system comprises a user system and a security server. The user system includes a capture unit, an input unit, a sensor, an imaging unit and a home server. The home server accepts the user's instructions and configure monitoring program realized by the home server. The user may specify logical connections between imaging unit and sensor, notification rule when the alarm is occurred.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takashi Hosoda