| Plat-Ease Corporation Patent applications |
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| 20110119303 | Information processing system, server device, information processing method, and program - Provided is a server device including a storage unit that stores, for each content, facet data composed of a plurality of facet items and facet values hierarchically arranged in a lower level of each of the plurality of facet items, priorities being assigned to the plurality of facet items, a receiving unit that receives content identifying information for identifying one content from a client terminal, a selection unit that selects one or more than one facet item of the one content and any facet value belonging to each of the one or more than one facet item, an acquisition unit that acquires relevant information of the one content based on a selected facet item and a selected facet value selected by the selection unit, and a transmission unit that transmits the relevant information acquired by the acquisition unit to the client terminal. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110093904 | Motion picture providing apparatus, motion picture providing method, and program - There is provided a motion picture providing apparatus including a keyword management section which manages, in order to search a motion picture related to content, a keyword registered with respect to the content, a viewing state acquisition section which acquires a viewing state of content from an outside TV, a keyword specification section which specifies a keyword registered with respect to the content which is being viewed by using the acquired viewing state, a motion picture selection section which selects one or more motion pictures that satisfy a predetermined reference from among one or more motion pictures searched by one or more outside motion picture sharing devices by using the specified keyword, and a motion picture providing section which acquires, from the motion picture sharing devices, a motion picture designated by a viewer from among the selected motion pictures, and provides the acquired motion picture to the TV. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20100169978 | Content usage managing apparatus, content usage managing method and program - There is provided a content usage managing apparatus including a memory unit to store the first relation between a POP and one or more contents included in the POP and the second relation between the POPs linked via a content in a package which includes two or more POPs, a selection unit to select the first content out of contents included in the first POP of the package, a specifying unit to specify the first webpage including the first content, and an examination unit to examine whether the first POP and one or more contents included in the first POP satisfy the first relation and to examine whether the first POP and the second POP linked to the first POP via the second content satisfy the second relation on at least any one of the first webpage or one or more webpages linked to the first webpage. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100131371 | Advertisement providing system, advertisement providing method and program - There is provided an advertisement providing system including an advertisement article data obtaining unit which obtains advertisement article data of an advertisement item expected to be contained in a publication, an advertisement information preparing unit which prepares advertisement information of the advertisement item from the obtained advertisement article data, an item information obtaining unit which obtains item information of the advertisement item from an electric commerce system which sells the advertisement item, a unit information preparing unit which prepares unit information of the advertisement item by relating the obtained advertisement information and the obtained item information, a unit information providing unit which provides the prepared unit information to the electric commerce system which sells the advertisement item, and a sales log obtaining unit which obtains a sales log of the advertisement item which is sold through the electric commerce system with utilizing the provided unit information. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20090210905 | Information providing apparatus, information acquisition terminal, broadcast reception terminal, information providing system, information providing method and program - An ECG server, which provides program contents-related ECG information to a television terminal and a user terminal, comprises a storage unit that stores the program contents-related ECG information, a configuring unit that configures an ECG module in correspondence to the program contents, made up with a plurality of sets of ECG information including tuning information to be used to allow the television terminal to select the program contents, a setting unit that sets timing information, which will allow the ECG module to be provided to the user terminal by linking with consignment of the program contents and a providing unit that provides, in conformance to the timing information, the ECG module to an user terminal capable of providing the tuning information to the television terminal. By utilizing the ECG server, the ratings of the program contents can be improved and the program contents can be more easily selected. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20080228394 | INFORMATION SUPPLYING SYSTEM, APPARATUS MOUNTED IN VEHICLE, INFORMATION SUPPLYING SERVER, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server includes: a detection portion for detecting that a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle; an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institution information indicating an institution in a location where the process is carried out; a recording portion for recording the institution information acquired by the institution information acquiring portion in a memory medium; an information acquiring portion for acquiring information to be outputted from an information supplying server which stores information to be outputted, including map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information; and an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information recorded in the memory medium from the information to be outputted acquired by the information acquiring portion. | 09-18-2008 |
