Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tomoaki Maruyama

Hiroaki Yamamoto

Kenji Kondo

Masayoshi Tojima

Kotaro Sakata

A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing (S) appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing (S) the appliance use information stored in the storing (S) to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing (S) the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing (S).

User management method for providing a notice to prompt usage of a function of an appliance

A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing the appliance use information stored in the storing to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing.

User management method, server device, and user management system

Provided is a server device capable of increasing the availability of a device by urging a user who uses the device to perform actions related to maintenance service. In this server device, an information transceiver receives operation information about a device. A remaining life determination unit determines the remaining life of the device or a component of the device based on the operation information. When the determined remaining life reaches a predetermined remaining life or becomes shorter than the predetermined remaining life, a transmission destination setting unit sets a device that is possessed by a person having a predetermined relationship with the user of the device as a transmission destination for the transmission of maintenance service information based on relationship information indicating the relationship between the user of the device and another person who is not the user. The information transceiver transmits the maintenance service information to the transmission destination.

Server device, terminal device, maintenance service information transmission method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A control method of the present disclosure is a control method of an information processing apparatus which includes a storage unit that stores predetermined resource information related to a resource required for a living activity of a user, the method including: an acquiring step of acquiring device information; an estimating step of estimating a living activity of the user; a competition extracting step of extracting a living activity group including living activities for which the resources are likely to compete among the living activities, based on the resource information; a resource judging step of judging whether a required resource has been secured for each of the living activities, based on the device information and the resource information; and an inhibition extracting step of extracting, as an inhibited living activity, a living activity for which it has been judged that the required resource has not been secured.

Control method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

It is an object of the present invention to provide a wireless communication system which can allow a wireless LAN terminal device () to establish a connection to a wireless LAN through a simplified procedure. In the wireless communication system, a wireless LAN access point () performs wireless communication with a wireless LAN terminal device () having personal identification information () necessary to identify a person as a registered user. The wireless LAN access point () includes: a wireless interface () operable to receive the personal identification information () outputted from the wireless LAN terminal device (), and a connection permitting unit () operable to have an input and output unit () output the personal identification information () received by the wireless interface (), wherein the connection permitting unit () receives information on whether or not the connection is permitted by a network manager (), and allows the wireless LAN terminal device () to establish the connection when the connection is permitted by the network manager ().

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Osaka, Japan

Tomoaki Maruyama