Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Cell-Infortech Inc.

Yasushi Kawakura

Masayuki Yoshida

Takeshi Aikawa

Takashi Suzuoka

Sachio Kizu

Hideo Hirahara

Takunari Yoshizawa

Miho Uno

Akira Morishita

Satoshi Ito

Seiji Maeda

Tetsuro Kimura

Toshiki Kizu

Yoichi Takebayashi

Mika Fukui

Hisako Tanaka

Seiji Miike

Mitsuru Kakimoto

Takeshi Yokokawa

Yoshiaki Kurosawa

Akihiko Nakase

Hiroshi Mizoguchi

Yoshikuni Matsumura

Shigenobu Seto

Hideaki Shinchi

A data relay and information processing method including storing in a database section identification information for identifying language-dependent data and replacement data corresponding to the language-dependent data in association with each other, receiving server data from the server system, detecting the replacement data from the database section on the basis of the identification information contained in the server data, replacing the language-dependent data as contained in the server data by the replacement data, and transmitting the server data as replaced to a client system. Thus, even in the case where the language used in the server system providing a service on the Internet is different from the language used in the client system, it is possible to recognize the information from the server by the client with reference to the replacement data.

Data relay method and information processing method

A data relay system for relaying data exchange between a server system of a service provider and a client system in accordance with the present invention comprises: a database section which is configured to store identification information for identifying language-dependent data and replacement data corresponding to the language-dependent data in association with each other; a server data receiving section which is configured to receive server data from the server system; a data processing section which is configured to detect the replacement data from the database section on the basis of the identification information contained in the server data; a data generating section which is configured to replace the language-dependent data as contained in the server data by the replacement data; and a client data transmitting section which is configured to transmit the server data as replaced to a client system.

Data relay system, data relay method, data relay program, information processing method, and information processing program

The encoded contents of a piece of delivered information is accompanied by an applicable time data indicating a specific time period for authorizing a particular mode of utilization. When a request for utilizing the contents is issued in an information utilization apparatus, it determines if the current time agrees with the time authorizing the requested utilization by referring to the time data annexed to the encoded contents. If the request is acceptable at the current time, a set of processing steps is carried out for decoding the encoded contents and other necessary operations. Thus, an information access control method can be adapted to have flexibility in setting charges and access requirements for the contents of information that can change the value and the mode of utilization with time.

Access control method and information utilization apparatus

A method and a system for displaying multimedia data including video data. A display of video data and related information are controlled according to a movement of a pointing selection marker, a type of related information, or a distribution of pointing selection possible regions over frames of video data. Linked related information can be displayed in synchronization with a progress of a display of the video data. Information indicating a presence/absence of pointing selection possible region for currently displayed video data can also be displayed. A useful information can be obtained by collecting a statistical information on the desired positions specified by the user's pointing selection inputs. Each frame of video data can be partitioned and related information can be provided in correspondence to partitioned parts of each frame.

Method and system for displaying multimedia data using pointing

An input apparatus for a portable electronic device capable of detecting the unintentional erroneous input operations and separating the intended correct input operations effectively. The apparatus includes an input unit for allowing a user to enter inputs by a prescribed input operation, an input movement monitoring unit for monitoring a movement of the user at a time of the input operation and a processing unit for processing the inputs entered at the input unit according to the input operation made by the user at the input unit and the movement of the user monitored by the input movement monitoring unit. The apparatus can be adapted to a pen input type electronic device, a slide control type electronic device, and a button control type electronic device. The movement monitored by the input movement monitoring unit can also be utilized as a control command for controlling the operation of the electronic device.

Input apparatus suitable for portable electronic device

A message transmission and page processing scheme for a hypermedia document processing system, in which the source information which contains a source server identifier for identifying a source server in the system, a source page identifier for identifying a source page in the system, a request page identifier for identifying the request page in the system, and a request target server identifier for identifying a request target server in the system, is transmitted from a client device to a server device either directly or through a relay server device. A prescribed processing according to the source information is then carried out at the server device. In a case of using the relay server device, the relay server device can counts a number of source information, or separate the source information from a request message transmitted from the client device, or generate the source information from the page message from the server device and the request message from the client device.

Message transmission scheme and page processing scheme for hypermedia

A data retrieval system capable of carrying out the retrieval using the secondary information of the primary data to be retrieved such as environmental information or structural information as the retrieval key. In the system, the primary data which are filing target to be stored and retrieved are stored in a first memory while secondary information associated with the primary data, which are not directly related with data content of the primary data, are stored in a second memory in correspondence to the primary data stored in the first memory. Then, when a retrieval key specifying a desired retrieval of the primary data from the first memory is entered, the secondary information is selected from the second memory in accordance with the retrieval key, and the primary data corresponding to the secondary information selected in accordance with the retrieval key is retrieved and outputted as a retrieval result.

Data retrieval system using secondary information of primary data to be

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasushi Kawakura