Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

The University of Tokyo

Yuichi Futa

Natsume Matsuzaki

Motoji Ohmori

Masao Nonaka

Toshihisa Nakano

Yuji Unagami

Manabu Maeda

Kaoru Yokota

Hideki Matsushima

Hiroki Shizuya

Shingo Hasegawa

Shuji Isobe

Makoto Tatebayashi

Tomoyuki Haga

Eisuke Koizumi

Masao Sakai

Masaya Yamamoto

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Masaya Miyazaki

Kaoru Murase

Masato Yamamichi

Masami Yamamichi, Legal Representative

Satomi Yamamichi, Legal Representative

Keiko Yamamichi, Legal Representative

Hiroshi Amano

Takayuki Ito

Senichi Onoda

Kotaro Hakoda

Hiroki Yamauchi

Shunji Harada

Taichi Sato

Yuusaku Ohta

Ayaka Ichijo

Masahiro Mambo

Hisashi Takayama

Yoshikatsu Ito

Kazukuni Kobara

Hideki Imai

Marika Minagawa

Masayuki Kozuka

Kouji Miura

Rieko Asai

Tetsuya Inoue

Masaki Yoshida

Atsuko Miyaji

Toshihisa Abe

Hirohito Kitatora

Ryo Nojima

Makoto Carlos Miyauchi

Yuko Tsusaka

Soichiro Fujioka

Takatoshi Ono

Yosuke Tajika

Kouji Kobayashi

Daisuke Kobayashi

Kazuhiro Aizu

Junya Iwazaki

Shigeru Yamada

Hiromichi Nishiyama

Shuichi Ohki

Yoji Kumazaki

Atsushi Umeta

Kaoru Yokotoa

Takeshi Gomi

Hiroyuki Shizuya

Natsume c/o Matsushita Ind Co Ltd Matsuzaki

Hiroki c/o Matsushita Ind Co Ltd Yamauchi

Yuusaku c/o Matsushita Electric IndCoLtd Ohta

An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.

Information management method

An information providing method and apparatus a) transmits a request via a network, for recommended driving information for a first user to be received and displayed on a display of the first user, b) receives from the network driving data from a plurality of vehicles about how a plurality of users drive their vehicles including the first user, c) extracts a similar user from among the plurality of users who drives a vehicle with a predetermined similarity to how the first user drives a vehicle, and determines recommended driving information of the similar user from the similar user's driving history, d) transmits over the network to the first user the recommended driving information of the similar user, and e) displays on a display of the first user the recommended driving information of the similar user.

Information providing method and information providing device

To provide an advertisement distribution method of determining a distribution destination of an advertisement of a product that has a low direct relevance to execution pieces of information collected from home appliances. The advertisement distribution method includes: a collecting step of collecting, from each of one or more of home appliances owned by each of users, one or more pieces of execution information each indicating a function that has been executed by the home appliance; a detecting step of, with respect to each user, detecting an unused function that has not been used in each home appliance by analyzing the collected pieces of execution information and functions of the home appliance; and a transmitting step of extracting a user who is expected to purchase a product based on a detection result, and transmitting an advertisement to one or more of the home appliances owned by the extracted user.

Advertisement distribution method and advertisement distribution system

Address information of a mail to be transmitted by a mail communication function is extracted from the mail to be transmitted; a transmission time of the mail to be transmitted is extracted from a portable information terminal; and judgment is made as to whether the address information matches predetermined address information and whether the transmission time belongs to a predetermined time zone. When the address information matches the predetermined address information, and the address information belongs to the predetermined time zone, an activation time at which a household appliance is to be activated is determined on the basis of the transmission time, and a control command for activating the household appliance at the activation time is transmitted to a network.

Method and program for controlling portable information terminal

A first user among a plurality of users is associated with a second user having an evaluation tendency similar to evaluation data of the first user for management. Further, a third user is selected by a terminal device of the first user as a user having preference information that suits preference of the first user. The third user is associated with the first user and the second user for management. This configuration makes it possible to select not only a user automatically selected by a system but also another user whom a targeted user is interested in as a similar user, allowing provision of information that better suits hobby and preference of the targeted user.

An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is stopped on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.

A data providing method is carried out by a computer () built in a data processing system () which is designed to collect log information from electronic devices through a network () and provide services based on that log information for authenticated users. The data providing method includes: receiving an air conditioner ()'s log information through the network; generating display data by reference to pieces of information which are included in the air conditioner's log information and which indicate (i) a preset temperature of the air conditioner, (ii) an outdoor temperature outside a living space in which the air conditioner is installed, and (iii) an indoor temperature of the living space in which the air conditioner is installed, the display data representing a trend of change of a turnaround time that indicates how long it takes from when the air conditioner starts operating until the indoor temperature reaches the preset temperature; and providing the display data for an authenticated user's display terminal ().

Data provision method using air conditioner log information

An information management method includes collecting log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses, generating display screen data indicating a status of the log information of the apparatuses corresponding service providers based on the collected log information, where the display screen data includes groups of information each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus, and provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable, providing the display screen data via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device, receiving information from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed, and stopping provision of the log information on the selected group when a determination is made that the refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.

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Yuichi Futa