Fujitsu Corporation

Toshihiro Ide

Takao Mohri

Satoru Ushijima

Shinichi Matsumoto

Takashi Nishigaya

Yuji Takada

Hiroki Ichiki

Yoshiyuki Seguchi

Ken-ichi Takeshita

Akira Hakata

Naoto Itoh

Masahiro Hirayama

There is disclosed an information providing system having a mediator adapted for receiving renewal information for an index from information servers or information sources to select the received renewal information in accordance with index selection condition. The mediator sends the selected renewal information to a retrieval engine.

Information providing system and mediating apparatus

There is provided a facilitator having a flexible distributed configuration using cells with enhanced security. The facilitator includes a query cellfor receiving a query from a user, a transfer cellfor transferring data to a predetermined cell, an answer cellfor organizing answers to the query from the user, and a dual cellhaving two functions (function of the query cell and the function of the answer cell), wherein respective kinds of cells are organized based on a group, and the dual cellis disposed on the border between the groups. All the data communicated between the groupspasses through the dual cell. The usercan see the answer cell portion of the dual cell, and the servercan see the query cell portion of the dual cell. Respective elements belonging to different groups are concealed from each other. The arrangement of each cell can be altered only by changing the setting of the dual cell

Facilitator having a distributed configuration, a dual cell apparatus used for the same, and an integrated cell apparatus used for the same

A trading system wherein each client and a trader respectively have a metadata generating portion for describing character string type parameters of each operation with metadata including a service type and a service type context which is supplementary information of the service type individually or all together, and a metadata interpreting portion for interpreting the metadata in its entirety. The client requesting a registration, an export, or an import to the trader can include authentication information and authority information in the metadata, whereby an authentication processing portion of the trader performs an authentication processing based on the authentication information and the authority information.

Trading system

In a custom service control system connected to a communication system including a plurality of user terminals and an exchange, a first memory stores service management processes respectively provided for the user terminals. A second memory stores a plurality of service processes respectively providing communications services. The service management processes includes pieces of custom data showing service processes respectively usable by the user terminals. A control unit selects service processes in response to requests from the user terminals in accordance with the service management processes.

Custom service control system

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Fukuoka, Japan

Toshihiro Ide