| Rakuten, Inc. Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
| 20120131050 | RESERVATION INFORMATION AGGREGATION DEVICE, RESERVATION INFORMATION AGGREGATION METHOD, SERVER, TRIP RESERVATION STATUS DISCLOSURE METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An optional tour agency organizing optional tours that are combined with an airline ticket-hotel reservation package at a customer's discretion is provided with booking state information. Optional tour agencies located in various places and organizing optional tours refer to a booking information aggregating device for travel booking information. Each optional tour agency accesses the booking information aggregating device ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131019 | INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS, INFORMATION ACQUIRING PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD AND INFORMATION ACQUIRING SYSTEM - There is provided an information acquiring apparatus which, when the user searches for information using a plurality of keywords, can facilitate an operation of selecting a plurality of keywords by means of a touch panel and improve the operability. The information acquiring apparatus makes an input means ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130816 | SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - While giving priority to a keyword designated by a seller, it is possible to reduce the extent of mismatch between the keyword designated by the seller and a keyword input as a search condition by a user. An advertisement main-search section ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120115458 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - User group DB ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120109725 | AFFILIATE REWARD DIVIDING APPARATUS, AFFILIATE REWARD DIVIDING SYSTEM, AFFILIATE REWARD DIVIDING METHOD, AFFILIATE REWARD DIVIDING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A problem that a load on an affiliate server increases when an affiliate reward is divided among a plurality of people is solved. When a user purchases a commodity or receives service in an EC site, an affiliate reward dividing apparatus adds a full amount of a reward to one of a poster database and an introducer database on the basis of a dividing ratio stored in an affiliate database. A computation of referring to a dividing ratio for each reward and dividing a reward, and a process of accumulating a divided reward in each data base is not necessary, so that a load on a system can be lessened. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120096028 | INFORMATION RETRIEVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RETRIEVING METHOD, INFORMATION RETRIEVING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH INFORMATION RETRIEVING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - The present invention provides an information retrieving apparatus and the like which replies a search result accurately to a question from the user. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120062750 | HORSE BODY INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, HORSE BODY STILL IMAGE DATA EXTRACTION METHOD, HORSE BODY STILL IMAGE DATA EXTRACTION PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - There are provided an information providing system, an information providing method and an information providing program capable of providing information for enabling conditions of a horse entered in a race to be rapidly confirmed. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120005272 | RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT APPARATUS, RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a relationship support apparatus capable of preventing a user from inconsistently applying for relationships. An receiving section ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110208729 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The invention provides an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program that can improve convenience of a user and facilitate participation of a user, with respect to an existing group having members (users). | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110164814 | FOREGROUND REGION EXTRACTION PROGRAM, FOREGROUND REGION EXTRACTION APPARATUS AND FOREGROUND REGION EXTRACTION METHOD - There are provided a foreground region extraction program, a foreground region extraction apparatus, and a foreground region extraction method capable of clipping an object region (foreground region) at high speed. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110078054 | INFORMATION TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD, INFORMATION TRANSMITTING AND PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION TRANSMITTING SYSTEM - There are provided an information transmitting apparatus, an information transmitting method, an information transmitting and processing program, and an information transmitting system capable of transmitting information such as a web page displaying stock quantity or the like while realizing the decreased number of times of obtaining stock quantity and lessening a process burden. In the case where a request for a hypertext generating page information is received, a hypertext including tag information having location information defining location of image data corresponding to stock quantity is transmitted to a terminal device, and the tag information displays the image data. In the case where a request including the location information is received from the terminal device which received the hypertext, stock-quantity information defining the stock quantity corresponding to the location information is obtained from a database. Image data indicating the stock quantity shown by the obtained stock quantity information in characters is generated. The generated image data is transmitted to the terminal device. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110071906 | Advertisement Distribution System, Advertisement Distribution Device, and Advertisement Distribution Method - A travel support server ( | 03-24-2011 |
| 20100293066 | VIRTUAL SHOPPING MALL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present provides a mechanism of leaving, as a record, a fact that a correction of order details of an accepted order is proper in virtual shopping mall service. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100202445 | SERVER DEVICE AND INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD - The present invention provides an information registration system, a server device, a server processing program, and an information registration method which are capable of efficiently registering a telephone number without hesitation of the user and recognizing an identical person using the telephone number thus registered. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100161417 | Advertisement Server Device, Advertisement Display Method, and Advertisement Server Program - An advertisement server device | 06-24-2010 |
| 20080320341 | Information providing system, information providing device, appropriateness judgment information generation method and appropriateness judgment inforamtion generation process program - An information providing device includes:
| 12-25-2008 |