| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090157861 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD - An information communication method includes: accepting first presence information transmitted from a first terminal device which is connected so as to be communicable through a network; specifying a second terminal device as a notification destination to which the first presence information is destined; mapping the notification destination to a transmission source of the first presence information; deciding whether or not an alteration of the notification destination is required according to a state of the notification destination as indicated by second presence information accepted from the second terminal device; selecting, if alteration is required, a third terminal device to succeed the second terminal device; and notifying the first presence information to the third terminal device corresponding to the altered notification destination. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100045426 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information communication system includes a first terminal apparatus which includes a notifying unit for notifying of presence information including status information of an object, a second terminal apparatus which includes a transmitting unit for transmitting a subscribe request of the presence information, and a central apparatus which includes a relay unit for relaying the first and second terminal apparatuses to each other; and a control unit capable of performing operations of determining whether or not a subscription of presence information by the second terminal apparatus is permitted, when the update of the presence information is received from the first terminal apparatus and providing the notification of the presence information to the second terminal apparatus to which the presence information is permitted to be notified. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100170943 | Presence system and method for presence management - A presence server stores a presence that is identified by presence IDs “a | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100325712 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SECURITY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SECURITY PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a key information table memory for storing, in a key information table, key information including first identification information identifying a first nearby device communicating with the information processing apparatus, a communication unit for communicating with a second nearby device present at a location where the second nearby device is communicable with the information processing apparatus, a nearby device information retrieval unit for retrieving nearby device information including second identification information identifying the second nearby device, a movement halt detector for detecting a movement status of the information processing apparatus, a functional limitation determiner for determining, based on the key information, the nearby device information, and/or the movement status, whether to limit execution of a process of a function of the information processing apparatus and a functional limitation executer for controlling the execution of the process based on the determination results. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110055357 | SERVER APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING NAVIGATION INFORMATION - A server apparatus includes, a transceiver unit to transmit to a communication apparatus a web page having link information to each of a plurality of contents, to transmit to the communication apparatus a content requested by the communication apparatus among the plurality of contents, and to transmit to the communication apparatus navigation information that includes link information to any of the plurality of contents; a storage unit to store identification information for identifying each of the plurality of contents and reference information indicating whether each content corresponding to the identification information is transmitted to the communication apparatus; and a generation unit to generate, on the basis of the reference information, the navigation information which does not include the link information corresponding to the content requested by the communication apparatus from among the plurality of contents. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110159915 | DETECTED INFORMATION CORRECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A detected information correction apparatus configured to correct detected information, includes: a usage status detecting configured to detect status information on the basis of detected information detected by one or more sensors, the status information indicating how a portable apparatus is being used; a correction data acquiring configured to acquire correction data at specific timing intervals, the correction data being used to correct the detected information; and a detected information correcting configured to correct the detected information with the correction data. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110221623 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - A control device which controls an operation of a controlled device, includes: an operation information storage unit to store operation information about an acceptable operation; a control information acquisition unit to acquire control information about the controlled device; and an association table generation unit to generate an association table for storing the operation information stored in the operation information storage unit associated with the control information acquired by the control information acquisition unit. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110242038 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ACCEPTING TOUCHING OPERATION INFORMATION - An input method for accepting input information by a touching operation performed on a touch target, includes: acquiring information about the touched region in which the touching operation is performed on the touch target; determining a display mode of an operation target indicator displayed with the touching operation according to the information about the touched region; outputting a display instruction for displaying the operation target indicator in the determined display mode; moving the displayed operation target indicator according to the movement of the touched region; and accepting the input information corresponding to a display position of the operation target indicator when the touching operation is finished. | 10-06-2011 |