Abstract: An online commodity management system in which processing for authorization is executed, when a request for purchase is made from a client to a server system, the request is verified for authorization by a credit authorizing/settling serve, and when the request for purchase is authorized to the purchaser as a result of the authorization, the desired contents and a serial number for identifying the contents and the purchaser are distributed from the server system to the client as a purchaser. With these operations, correlation between contents and the purchaser can be unified for management on the system. Then, when a report on completion of the purchase is transmitted from the client to the server system, the server system executes the processing for accounting with the purchaser.

Abstract: Identification information, access information indicating that a main body of a mail message has not been accessed nor read at a destination terminal, information about the sender, information about the receiver, time and date information, and subject information each collated to each other is stored and managed as a transmitted mail managing information in a mail box. When a mail message is transmitted, a transmitted mail message including a return mail program actuated to return a response, when the transmitted mail message is accessed and read at the destination terminal, an acknowledgement that the transmitted mail message has been accessed and read and identification information for the transmitted mail message as a returned mail to a server.

Abstract: A phrase retrieving/selecting method, in which a first condition for retrieving is set, a plurality of candidate conditions for retrieving used for setting other conditions for retrieving in addition to the set first condition for retrieving are displayed, any candidate condition for retrieving is specified and set from the displayed plurality of candidate conditions for retrieving as a second condition for retrieving, and the required phrase is retrieved and selected from a text expression dictionary according to the first and second conditions for retrieving, and a result of retrieving and selecting is displayed.

Abstract: Image data and natural language data indicating a visual impression of an image prepared based on the image data are correlated to each other and stored in the correlated form in the image database, and when retrieving an image using the retrieving section, natural language data indicating a text for retrieval is inputted from a natural language input section, and image data relating to natural language data having a common visual impression is extracted from the image database by collating the inputted natural language data to natural language data on the image database.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a Chinese character information outputting step for outputting Chinese character information corresponding to an input arbitrary character string by referring to a Chinese dictionary in which Chinese character information comprising a command and/or at least one Chinese character correlated to a character string. Chinese character information is received from the Chinese character information outputting step and the correlated Chinese character is displayed as a candidate for conversion in a list. The present invention includes a selecting step of selecting a desired Chinese character or a command from the Chinese character information displayed in the list and a determining step for determining which of a Chinese character and a command has been selected. The command is executed when a command has been selected and the input character string is replaced with Chinese characters displayed when it is determined in the determining step that a Chinese character has been selected.

Abstract: Voice-generating information, comprising discrete voice data for velocity or pitch of a voice is made by dispensing the discrete data so that the voice data is not dependent on a time lag between phonemes and at the same time is present at a relative level against a reference thereof. The said information includes data on plural types of voice tone, and is stored in a voice-generating information storing section. Voice tone data indicating sound parameters for each voice element, such as phoneme for each voice tone type, is stored in a voice tone storing section. Voice data, corresponding to the type of voice tone in the voice-generating information stored in the voice-generating storing section, is selected from a plurality of voice type data stored in the voice tone storing section under control by a control section. Meter patterns, which occur successively in the direction of a time axis, are developed according to the voice-generating information.

Abstract: The floating point data stored in an arbitrary cell is processed on the basis of a particular formula (S401), if an error due to column truncation occurs in a result of computation (S402) then the all the floating point data is converted to the fixed point data (S405), and the error occurring due to the floating point data is recovered automatically thereby improving the convenience of the recovery process.

Abstract: An online gift-presentation system in which, when a server system transmits encoded gift-contents and gift-presentation data thereof to a client as a gift-presenter and a client as a gift-receiver sends a request for decoding using the gift-presentation data to the server system, the server system transmits a decoding key for decoding the encoded gift-contents to the client as a gift-receiver.

Abstract: The table document preparation module prepares a table document containing cells, the read-out attribute setting module sets a read-out attribute specifying a way of reading-out cell data supplied through the setting screen from the table document preparation module being assisted by the setting display module, and voice-generating data generation module generates voice-generating data for the table document according to the way of reading out specified by the read-out attribute, and the voice synthesis module synthesizes voices according to the voice-generating data.

Abstract: A voice-generating information making apparatus comprises: a talking way data storing section for storing therein talking way data comprising character string information grouped according to the character string information, a character string input unit for inputting a character string (consisting of a control section, an application storing section, a key entry section, and a display section), a retrieving unit for retrieving a group having the same character string information as the inputted character string, a voice tone data storing section for storing therein a plurality of voice tone data, a voice synthesizing section for synthesizing a voice, a voice selecting unit for selecting a desired voice from the synthesized voice, and a voice-generating document storing section for storing therein talking way data corresponding to the selected voice as a voice-generating document in correlation to the inputted character string.

Abstract: An information communication system, having host and remote terminal devices, and method for generating a voice in which one voice tone data is selected from a plurality of types of voice tone data and stored according to received voice generating information. The voice is reproduced by generating a voice waveform according to a meter pattern and selected voice tone data. The discrete voice data may be presented for either one or both of velocity and pitch of a voice correlated to a time lag between discrete voice data. The discrete data is dispensed so that each voice data is not dependent on a time lag between phonemes and at the same time is present at a level relative to a reference value. Voice tone data indicating a sound parameter for each voice element such as a phoneme for each voice tone type is stored in a voice tone data storing section in a terminal device.