Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Yoshifumi Matsunaga

Akinori Komura

Hideto Yuzawa

Tomokazu Yago

Hiroyuki Hattori

Toshikatsu Suzuki

Eiji Ishida

Kazuo Shibuta

Shinichiro Taniguchi

Hirohito Shibata

Hiroyuki Ishima

Tadanobu Miyauchi

Juhei Nakagaki

A workspace management method for managing a plurality of windows displayed in response to start-up of an application as a workspace for user interface, the method including: managing management information regarding the windows; detecting a change in a state of each of the windows; detecting, in a case where a movement of one window of the windows is detected in the detecting of the change, the other windows positioned in the neighborhood of the one window or overlapping the one window by referring to the management information; displaying, in a case where the other windows are detected in the detecting of the other windows, a docking position to be docked in each of the one window and the other windows; and docking, in a case where a stop of the movement of the one window is detected in the detecting of the change, the one window with the other windows via the docking position.

Workspace management method, workspace management system, and computer readable medium

An attention calling apparatus includes: a measurement unit for measuring at least one first job related physical quantity related to a performance status of a first job of a user; and an attention calling processing execution unit for executing processing for calling user's attention so as to perform a second job based on the first job related physical quantity measured by the measurement unit and at least one second job related physical quantity indicating a status of the second job which a user can perform.

Attention calling apparatus and method and information processing system

There is provided an operation supporting apparatus including a memory portion that stores characteristics of an operation to be multiplexed, and a determination portion that determines appropriateness of multiple operations to be multiplexed on the basis of the characteristics thereof stored in the memory portion.

Operation supporting system and operation supporting method

An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of displays; a plurality of display instruction units; and an assignment unit that assigns a target selected on at least any one of the displays to one of the display instruction units so as to configure the display instruction unit that the target is to be displayed on one of the displays in accordance with a command input by the assigned one of the display instruction units.

Information processing apparatus, assignment method and display method of information processing apparatus, and computer-readable program product

A multilayered task supporting apparatus includes: a display area that is divided into three or more; an input unit that is provided with a group of control buttons for assigning a display object; and a control unit that controls a content to be displayed on the display area on the basis of an input from the input unit.

Multilayered task supporting apparatus and method for supporting multilayered task

An information processing system including a support section that displays a document in a given region and supports creation of the document, an acceptance section that accepts a search request in relation to a search target when the search target is selected from the document in the given region, and a search section that searches for information related to the search target based on the search request in relation to the search target.

Information processing system and information processing method that searches for peripheral information

A data outputting system realizes tacit viewing by representing pieces of peripheral data related to focused data to which a user pays attention at an appropriate timing. In the system, the data to which the user pays attention is selected by a data designating element as focused data from the plural pieces of data held by a database, and a focused data representing element makes the outputting element output the focused data. A peripheral data determining element selects the pieces of peripheral data from the plural pieces of data held by the database based on the degree of relation to the focused data, and a timing determining element determines the timing of representation of the peripheral data in accordance with the attributes of the focused data, the history of representation of the focused data in the past, the attributes of the user, and so on. Then a peripheral data representing element makes the outputting element output the pieces of peripheral data at the determined timing.

Tacit viewing system, method and medium for representing peripheral data

A data management system which enables a user to flexibly make corresponding relation between data stored in a existing database, and a data file and a program for processing the data file, is disclosed. A user register in advance corresponding relation between a data unit stored in a existing database, and a data file and a program for processing the data file, both of which exist outside of said first database. After the retrieval of the data unit from the existing database, if the corresponding relation for the retrieved data unit is registered, the program related to the data unit is activated for processing the related data file in response to the user's instruction.

Data management system, that enables a user to connect existing data to

A data unit group handling apparatus which handles a file system for storing a plurality of files defined by different kind of file formats, and at least one of the files is a data unit group which is defined by a predetermined file format, includes data units and can be located in any location in the file system. In the apparatus, at least one data unit group is retrieved from the file system in accordance with the file format, a selection instruction is received from a user to select at least one of the data unit group from the retrieved at least one data unit group, retrieval condition to retrieve at least one data unit is also received, and at least one of the data unit matching to the received retrieval condition from the at least one of the data unit group which is selected in accordance with the received selection instruction.

Data unit group handling apparatus

A data management system in which a plurality of data each data comprising a set of three elements: a data name, a data body and a data retrieving keyword group whose content is not so described that the system is able to handle hierarchically and logically differentiating it and display areas of a data retrieval/display window or an editing window are arranged to manage data based on the above three sets. A data name can be automatically set as a retrieval key at the time of data editing. The system can handle a title or an index attached to each data of a data base, a character string corresponding to the title or index or a retrieval keyword as same with other data or an independent accessible manner. Further, the system creates another display area different in size from a display area for display of the retrieved data to display the same data as displayed on the display area for the retrieved data. The system comprises a new data retriever creating unit for integrating more than one data displayed on one or more display areas to create a new data retriever to allow easy creation of such a new data source as the data retriever on the basis of data extracted from a data retriever.

Data management system for a personal data base

An information evaluating calculator reads stored information units and calculates evaluation values for the information units while, if necessary, referring to externally stored conditions. A position calculator receives the evaluation values and converts the evaluation values to position data. An image generator generates an image for display, in which image elements represent respective information units. The image elements are arranged at positions indicated by the position data. Information units are presented in correspondence to displayed image elements by user selections.

Apparatus for presenting information according to evaluations of units

A server in a network for performing services according to requests for service from clients on the network. The server includes a memory area for storing user commands, a memory area for storing a file program, an information exchange area, a temporary storage area, a service program area, and a control program area.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshifumi Matsunaga