Sony Corporation

Tomohiro Katsube

Takamasa Iwade

Yohei Hashimoto

Kenji Hisanaga

Yoshinori Atake

Takuma Oiwa

Naoshi Suzuki

Masato Yokobori

Atsushi Sato

Keiji Yuzawa

Kouji Miyata

Atsushi Fuse

Takayuki Miura

Tsuyoshi Ono

Hideki Date

Takafumi Masuda

Hiroshi Iwasaki

Yuu Sugita

Junichi Ootani

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a structure analysis unit that analyses display control data including multiple structural units, in each of which information relating to display control is written, and extracts the structural units included in the display control data, a first structuring unit that generates first structured data for display control by linking, except for a structural unit in which information involving script processing is written, the structural units including at least a structural unit in which information relating to a layout of a display screen is written, among the extracted structural units, a second structuring unit that generates second structured data for display control by linking all of the extracted structural units, and a display control unit that displays a display screen using the first structured data, and, at a stage the second structured data is generated, redisplays the display screen using the second structured data.

Two-stage rendering of web page containing scripts

Provided is a data acquisition method including the steps of selecting a link destination whose display is at least partially located in a region of a display screen corresponding to an operating tool, acquiring, before the link destination is selected, information relating to a layout of a display screen and display control data including at least a structural unit in which the information is written, the display control data and the information existing at the link destination, extracting structural units included in the display control data, in a case the prefetched link destination is selected, generating first structured data by linking the extracted structural units in which information involving script-process isn't written, generating second structured data by linking the extracted structural units, displaying a display screen using the first structured data, and redisplaying, at a stage the second structured data is generated, the display screen using the second structured data.

Information processing apparatus, data acquisition method, and program

Provided is a data acquisition method including the steps of selecting one or more of at least one link destination, acquiring, before the link destination is selected, display control data including at least a structural unit in which information relating to a layout of a display screen is written, the display control data existing at the link destination selected in the previous step, extracting structural units included in the display control data before the prefetched link destination is selected, generating, before the prefetched link destination is selected, first structured data for display control by linking the extracted structural units in which information involving script processing is not written, generating, in a case the prefetched link destination is selected, second structured data for display control by linking the structural units, displaying a display screen using the first structured data, and redisplaying the display screen using the second structured data.

The present invention relates to an information processing system, and an information processing apparatus and method in which authentication processing on a network can be easily performed. A setting terminal device sends registration information input by a user to a CE-device registration setting server. The CE-device registration setting server generates connection information for connecting CE devices to the Internet based on the registration information. The setting terminal device receives the connection information from the CE-device registration setting server and stores it in a memory card. When the memory card is attached, the CE device reads the connection information so as to connect to a network. The present invention can be applied to electronic devices connected to a network.

Information processing system, and information processing apparatus and method

A CE apparatus () is a terminal capable of including apparatus authentication information therein with a high degree of safety. A management server () encrypts apparatus authentication information and transmits the encrypted apparatus authentication information to a factory (). A factory worker links a connection means () to a connector of the CE apparatus (). The encrypted apparatus authentication information transmitted by the management server () to the factory () is supplied to the CE apparatus () in a state of being encrypted as it is by way of the connection means (). The CE apparatus () includes an embedded write module for decrypting the encrypted apparatus authentication information and storing the apparatus authentication information in a storage unit. That is to say, the apparatus authentication information supplied by way of the connection means () is decrypted by the write module and stored in the storage unit employed in the CE apparatus (). Since the apparatus authentication information is supplied to the CE apparatus () in a state of being encrypted as it is, the apparatus authentication information can be stored therein with a high degree of safety.

Device authentication information installation system

This invention relates to a service providing system and a service providing method for allowing users to receive a service from a service server without having to submit their security-critical information to that server. A CE devicerequests provision of the service by transmitting authentication information such as a device ID to a surrogate authentication serverThe surrogate authentication serverauthenticates the CE devicebased on the authentication information and transmits a result of the authentication to the service serverIn turn, the service serverprovides the CE devicewith the requested service based on the result of the authentication received from the surrogate authentication serverThe CE devicethen uses the service provided by the service serverThis system can be applied advantageously to network-based marketing systems.

Service providing system and method

Service provision through a network is made available by intuitive operation. A private icon for a utilizing service is displayed in an icon folder. The user can display a content of the service by selecting the private icon by the mouse or the like. Because the private icon is an image representative of a content of the service, the user can select and utilize the service by intuitive operation.

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Chiba, Japan

Tomohiro Katsube