Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080228759 | ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING AN ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD CONTROL PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD CONTROL METHOD - An electronic bulletin board apparatus and method enabling a second user to answer a question of a first user using an answer input picture, including generating guide information for guiding the second user to an answer input picture as a guide destination picture through which to respond to a first question of the first user based on a second question that is similar to the first question, and posting the guide information in an answer input picture as a posting destination picture through which to respond to the second question. The electronic bulletin board apparatus and method displays the guide destination picture based on the guide information selected by the second user among pieces of guide information posted in the posting destination picture | 09-18-2008 |
20090026264 | Entrustee information transmitting program, entrustee information transmitting apparatus, and entrustee information transmitting method - An entrustee information transmitting method includes an entrustment managing storage storing entrustment relationship information indicating correspondence between entrusters who are voters performing entrustment and entrustees who are voters entrusted by the entrusters in an entrustment managing storage unit; an attendance managing storage storing attendance information of respective voters in an attendance managing storage unit in units of bills; an indirect-entrustment voter extracting operation of extracting one or more indirect-entrustment voter who indirectly entrust an attendee by using the entrustment relationship information and the attendance information; an entrustee determining operation of determining attendees who are indirectly entrusted by the indirect-entrustment voters to be recommended entrustees; and an entrustee information transmitting operation of transmitting information of the recommended entrustees. | 01-29-2009 |
20090055212 | RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH DELEGATION MEDIATING PROGRAM IS RECORDED, DELEGATION MEDIATING APPARATUS AND DELEGATION MEDIATING METHOD - A delegation mediating apparatus which presents a voter who wants to collect delegations to another voter who is looking for a delegatee, in a decision to be made by voting by multiple voters, the apparatus including, voting history storage unit for storing each voter's past voting history in a voting history storage unit, similarity degree calculation unit for calculating a degree of voting action similarity between the voter who wants to collect delegations and the other voter who is looking for a delegatee, with the use of the past voting history stored in the voting history storage unit, and delegatee presentation unit for presenting the voter who wants to collect delegations if the degree of similarity to the other voter who is looking for a delegatee is high, to the other voter who is looking for a delegatee. | 02-26-2009 |
20090119317 | CATCH PHRASE GENERATION DEVICE - A catch phrase generation device stores keywords in association with each other. Each keyword indicates a characteristic of a user, and a property to which each of keywords belongs. A plurality of templates are also stored. Each template has an insertion section for which a keyword property that should be inserted is determined in advance. A template corresponding to guidance information based on a predetermined condition is selected. A keyword acquisition unit analyzes an access history, which has been created by the user or to which the user has made reference, and acquires, based on an analyzed result, a stored keyword. | 05-07-2009 |
20090138209 | PROGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND PROGNOSTIC METHOD - A computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute, (a) extracting prediction factors from gene expression data, (b) predicting based on gene expression data of a patient to be prognosticated, whether expression levels of the prediction factors of the patient are similar to the expression levels of a good prognosis group or the expression levels of a poor prognosis group, and (c) extracting prediction factors indicating a poor prognosis from the prediction factors of the patient as poor prognosis determining factors. Poor prognosis determining factors are extracted in which increase and decrease trends of the expression levels coincide with increase and decrease trends of expression levels supposed when abnormal phenomena related to predetermined diseases occur, and the poor prognosis determining factors extracted for the respective abnormal phenomena are outputted. | 05-28-2009 |
20090150228 | VOTING PROMOTION ACTIVITY SUPPORT PROGRAM AND VOTING PROMOTION ACTIVITY SUPPORT APPARATUS - An apparatus accepts, from each voter, registration of a free delegation relationship. Then, the apparatus presents voting information such as a vote topic, choices and a voting expiration date to the voter. Next, the apparatus presumes how delegated votes are delegated, during a voting state at a total calculation date, in accordance with the delegation relationships, and estimates a voting result in consideration of delegation of votes. Next, the estimation apparatus sends the estimated voting result to the voters and the administrator for encouraging voter to vote. | 06-11-2009 |
20120002844 | Computer product, information display apparatus, and information display method - A 3-dimesional model of an antigen is regarded as a display subject and a 3-dimesional model of an antibody is regarded as a comparison subject. A portion of the molecular surface of the display subject at a distance enabling binding with the comparison subject is cut out as a display surface. The 3-dimensional model of the antigen, which is the display subject, is displayed in a rotated state, where the normal of the display surface is rotated to point in a counter viewing direction, whereby the 3-dimensional model is rotated in a viewing coordinate system. The display surface alone is displayed in color, whereas other portions of the molecular surface are not, thereby enabling the display surface of the antigen that is at a distance enabling binding with the antibody to be displayed at a position easily viewed by the user. | 01-05-2012 |
20140012428 | OPERATION PLAN PREPARATION METHOD, OPERATION PLAN PREPARATION DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An operation plan preparation device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: generating a plurality of scenarios representing the possible set of supply and demand power curves that could occur under a given condition; first calculating an optimal operation plan by which the best evaluation value for a scenario in operation of a storage battery is obtained, and recording the evaluation value of that plan as a first evaluation value of that scenario; second calculating a second evaluation value for an operation plan candidate in the case when a scenario occurs in the operation of the storage battery; third calculating a difference between the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value relative to each scenario; and selecting the operation plan of the storage battery from among the plural operation plan candidates based on the difference. | 01-09-2014 |
20140207837 | CALCULATING DEVICE, CALCULATING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A calculating device selects an action and a corresponding state; acquires an evaluation value by evaluating the combination of the selected action and the selected state; identifies for each selected action, a lowest evaluation value among acquired evaluation values; determines the lowest evaluation value among evaluation values of all the states selected for each action as a minimax candidate, and determines, as a minimax, an evaluation value that is highest among the lowest evaluation values corresponding to the actions; each time an evaluation value is acquired for a combination of a state and an action after the minimax candidate is determined, compares the acquired evaluation value and the minimax candidate, and terminates selection of a state corresponding to the action when the evaluation value is lower than the minimax candidate and selects an unselected action from the action set; and outputs an action corresponding to the determined minimax. | 07-24-2014 |
20140358307 | OPERATION PLAN CREATING METHOD, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND OPERATION PLAN CREATING APPARATUS - An operation plan creating system, by simulation based on a supply and demand scenario, extracts for each time point during operation for one day, a scenario that raises the effect of correction of the operation at the time point. The operation plan creating system classifies action-requiring scenarios by action similarity. The operation plan creating system determines an action-requiring scenario group for which actions are similar, and a correction time. The operation plan creating system judges whether an early action scenario group can be identified by data available at an early action time on the current day. If identifiable, the operation plan creating system | 12-04-2014 |