Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Omron Corporation

Takefumi Naganuma

Kazuhiro Yamada

Nobuyuki Watanabe

Dai Kamiya

Takashi Kondo

Masayuki Tsuda

Fukiko Maeda

Hideyuki Nagasawa

Eriko Oseki

Mao Asai

Shoji Kurakake

Yusuke Fukazawa

Hidetoshi Ueno

Masashi Onogi

Kunihiro Fujii

Midori Onogi

Mirai Hara

Akira Nakajima

Yutsuka Shigemori

Tatsuro Oi

Tetsuto Nishiyama

A content evaluation apparatus and a content evaluation method that can distribute contents that a user potentially needs without any omissions. A history class separation unit generates a separation plane for separating in a separation plane a characteristic vector of a selected content and characteristic vectors of non-selected contents stored in a browsing history table. A user characteristic vector calculation unit generates a user characteristic vector based on an orthogonal vector perpendicular to the separation plane thus generated and stores the user characteristic vector in a user characteristic vector management table. Subsequently, when a recommendation request receiving unit receives a recommendation request, a content evaluation unit evaluates the contents based on the stored user characteristic vector.

Recommendation information evaluation apparatus using support vector machine with relative dissatisfactory feature vectors and satisfactory feature vectors

A service recommendation system and a service recommendation method capable of improving the probability of the estimation of a user task and recommending a service depending on a user task can be provided. The user role obtaining unitof the service recommendation serverobtains the role of a user, and the task estimating unitestimates a user task from a task model associated with the obtained user role and stored in the task knowledge DB. The service knowledge retrieving unitretrieves a service capable of assisting a user task obtained from the task estimating unit

Service recommendation system and service recommendation method

A recommendation information generation apparatus and a recommendation information generation method that can select a similar user appropriately even if the amount of history information is small. In an information distribution server, a user characteristic vector calculation unit calculates a user characteristic vector of each of users, and a similar user calculation unit calculates the degree of similarity between the users based on the calculated user characteristic vector of each of the users. The similar user calculation unit then selects a similar user who is similar to a first user based on the calculated degree of similarity. A relevance evaluation unit generates recommendation information for the first user based on the characteristic vector of the selected similar user.

Recommendation information generation apparatus and recommendation information generation method

Providing an information providing system and an information providing method capable of providing detail information required for a user to execute his/her scheduled activity smoothly. An information providing systemcomprises an inhibition storing sectionfor preliminary storing inhibition information relating to inhibition factors corresponding to scheduled information relating to the scheduled activity; a candidate storing sectionfor preliminary storing candidate information relating to candidates of a coping method corresponding to the inhibition information; a schedule receiving sectionfor receiving the scheduled information from a communication terminal; an inhibition selecting sectionfor selecting from the inhibition storing section the inhibition information corresponding to the scheduled information; a candidate selecting sectionfor selecting from the candidate storing section the candidate information corresponding to the inhibition information; a candidate transmitting sectionfor transmitting the candidate information to the communication terminal; a selection receiving sectionfor receiving from the communication terminal, a selection information selected by the communication terminal; and a detail transmitting sectionfor transmitting detail information on the basis of the selection information to the communication terminal

Information providing system and information providing method

The present invention provides a task selection assistance apparatus, and a task selection assistance method, which enable burdens on a user to be alleviated in selecting a task for solving a problem. A domain candidate determining portiondetermines domain candidates to be presented to the user from among domains stored in a task model DB, and a domain candidate transmitting portiontransmits the domain candidates to a portable terminal. A user selected domain obtaining portionobtains a domain, which has been selected by the user, from the portable terminal, and the task candidate determining portiondetermines task candidates to be presented to the user from among tasks stored in the task model DBbased on the domain selected by the user.

Task selection apparatus and task selection assistance method

In the mobile telephonerelating to the present invention, a control sectionperforms control for switching between a non-active state which refuses inputs to an application program, and a rest state in which the application program is temporarily halted. The control sectionperforms control for switching the execution state of the application program from the non-active state to the rest state, in accordance with instructions from an input section. The control sectionfurther performs control for switching the execution state of the application program from the non-active state to the rest state, in accordance with a function contained in an application program.

Mobile communication terminal, method for controlling execution state of application program, application program, and recording medium wherein application program has been recorded

A mobile telephonehaving a function for downloading and executing an application A from a network server comprises a communications module execution control system. The judging sectionacquires and refers to an attribute information file. If the attribute information filecontains a (UseTelephone=call) definition, then the judging sectionjudges that the call sectionis to be executed by the application A, and if there is no UseTelephone key, then it judges that the call sectionis not be executed by the application A. If the UseTelephone value is not 'call', then the judging sectionjudges that the download of the application A is not allowed. The control sectioncontrols the download and execution of the application A, in accordance with the judgement from the judging section

Communications module execution control system, communications module execution control method, application execution control system, and application execution control method

An object of the present invention is to enable smooth performance testing of an application software on a mobile communication terminal and to make execution state information about the application software available solely to authorized persons. The cellular phoneaccording to the present invention comprises a display, wireless unit, and control unit. As used herein, the displayis a display apparatus for displaying information. From a delivery server, the wireless unitreceives application software together with attribute information that indicates whether execution state information stored in a specific storage area by the application software should be displayed. The control unitperforms a control routine such that the execution state information is displayed by the displaywhen the attribute information indicates that the execution state information should be displayed, and the execution state information is not displayed by the displaywhen the attribute information indicates that the execution state information should not be displayed.

Mobile communication terminal, apparatus and system for delivering application software, method for controlling execution state display, program, and recording medium

In the mobile telephonerelating to the present invention, a control sectionperforms control for switching between a non-active state which refuses inputs to an application program, and an active state which permits inputs to an application program. Moreover, the control sectionperforms control for switching the execution state of the application program from the non-active state to the active state, in accordance with instructions from an input section. The control sectionfurther performs control for switching the execution state of the application program from the non-active state to the active state, in accordance with a function contained in an application program.

Mobile communications terminal, application program execution state control method, and execution state control computer program product

The mobile telephonepertaining to the present invention comprises a memory unit, a short-range wireless unit, and a control unit. The memory unitassociates and stores an application ID, keyword, and application software. The short-range wireless unitreceives an application ID and keyword transmitted from outside. The control unitretrieves from the application storage areaand starts application software that corresponds to the received application ID when there is a match between the keyword received by the short-range wireless unitand the keyword stored in the ADF storage area

Mobile communication terminal, application software initiating apparatus, application software initiating system, application software initiating method, and application software initiating program

In order to perform control to optimize a display area during the execution of application software, the cellular phoneaccording to the present invention communicates with an application software distribution apparatus for distributing application software and is characterized by comprising a display unitthat includes a display screenand serves to display information on the display screen; a wireless unitfor receiving, from the application software distribution apparatus, application software, and attribute data that indicates an assumed display area that is to be used as a display area during execution of the application software; and a control unitfor controlling the display area of the application software in the display screenof the displayon the basis of the attribute data received by the wireless unitand displayable area data that indicates the displayable area of the display screen

Mobile communication terminal and display control method

The objective of the present invention is to provide an agent system in which it will not be necessary to respecify the destination and in which the dead time entails in specifying the destination will be minimized. Agent generating unit in the system agent generates mobile object with its attached routing list which indicates the object's destination. MPU converting unit converts agent to MPU code. Intermediate code converting unit changes to intermediate code, and outputs to the next communication device. In the communication device which received the agent, the MPU converting unit converts the agent to MPU code. Agent restoring unit restores the agent of MPU code to the original agent, and stores it in the memory area.

Agent system

The object of this invention is to provide a cooperation control system to make the system maintenance easier, and allow easier modification of the system. To achieve such object, a plurality of control devices according to this invention are divided into a plurality of sub-groups each of which cooperates with each other. The group object controls the sub-group. The plurality of control devices within the sub-group communicate with the group object and they are controlled by the group object.

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Kyoto, Japan

Takefumi Naganuma