Patents Assigned to NEC Biglobe, Ltd.
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Publication number: 20140350865Abstract: A communication terminal obtains biological information. The communication terminal determines whether the obtained biological information satisfies preset conditions. When it is determined that the biological information satisfies preset conditions, the communication terminal creates content information indicating the contents of the output information. The communication terminal then provides the created content information to other communication terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: Nec Biglobe, Ltd.Inventor: Michitaro MIYATA
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Publication number: 20140324632Abstract: This product search server is provided with: a WEB server which communicates with an exhibition terminal and a product search terminal; a control unit which performs processes in response to a request such as product offering, search, order, etc.; a clock which holds and returns the current time; an product-offering DB which accumulates offered-product information, registration time, latitudes and longitudes of registration places, and contact information of registrants; and a mail server which transmits order notification. With this structure, the offered product of the entry is displayed only when the distance (unit: kilometer [km]) from the entry registration place to the search place is less than the square value of the elapsed time (unit: hour [H]) from the entry registration to the search, so that the searcher located at a shorter distance from the seller can acquire the right of order earlier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Enomoto, Kazuya Furukawa, Shigenobu Ito, Masao Izumoto, Kenji Shioume
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Publication number: 20140323078Abstract: A memory unit stores a plurality of transmission destinations. A control unit determines an order of priority of transmission destinations based on states of the plurality of transmission destinations that are stored by the memory unit, and then, upon receiving predetermined input, originates a call to the transmission destination having the highest order of priority of transmission destinations that was determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventors: Michitaro MIYATA, Tomonari KAMBA, Kyoji HIRATA, Takahiro MURAKAMI, Kenji SHIOUME, Tadashi HANEISHI
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Patent number: 8874141Abstract: An information providing server acquires, according to a relative position of a mobile terminal to an information source which is a base of provided information transmitted to the mobile terminal, preset provided information among a plurality of pieces of provided information stored in a provided information database, and transmits the acquired provided information to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal displays the received provided information.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Nec Biglobe, Ltd.Inventor: Noriyuki Sakka
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Publication number: 20140292653Abstract: In an AR device, when display control of additional information is performed for an object, a display device acquires a picture including an object in real space. An pointing device outputs, when pointing the object in real space by an operation of a user, information showing a feature for identifying the pointed object. A control device analyzes the picture by the display device and identifies objects in the picture. The control device outputs position information in the picture for the identified object. The control device outputs position information in the picture for the pointed object based on the outputted information from the pointing device. The control device extracts additional information of a target object from an additional information group of objects in real space. The control device performs display control of the additional information based on the calculated position information. The display device displays the additional information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventors: Tomonari Kamba, Kyoji Hirata
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Patent number: 8848103Abstract: It is desired to provide a content data display device having a caption display function which can effectively use the screen of the limited size and achieves a high operability. A content data display device includes: a storage unit configured to store an image data and a content data which includes at least one caption data which respectively corresponds to at least one region on the image data; a display unit configured to display the image data; an input unit configured to select a selected region from the at least one region; and a control unit configured to display a caption data which is one of the at least one caption data and corresponds to the selected region to overlap on the selected region of the image data as a selected caption data.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: NEC Biglobe, Ltd.Inventor: Takuya Sato
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Patent number: 8838616Abstract: A server device of the present invention includes a control unit collecting texts stored in a storage unit in response to an instruction from the outside or when a predetermined time is reached, extracting words from the collected texts, determining, as a general word, a word which appears at a frequency higher than a first predefined value for a first predetermined period, and which appears at a frequency that varies within a second predefined value range for every second predetermined period that is shorter than the first predetermined period, and creating a general word list which enumerates the general words.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: NEC Biglobe, Ltd.Inventor: Norikazu Matsumura
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Patent number: 8830796Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a snooze button; an alarm stop button; an alarm processing unit that outputs the alarm at alarm time to be scheduled get-up time, resumes the alarm when manipulating the snooze button during the alarm after suspending the alarm for a predetermined period, stops the alarm when manipulating the alarm stop button during the alarm, and stops, when manipulating the alarm stop button during the suspension of the alarm, resuming the alarm after suspending the alarm; a computing unit that calculates, when stopping the alarm or stopping resumption of the alarm at the alarm processing unit, a get-up index based on the number of times to manipulate the snooze button from the start of the alarm to the manipulation of the alarm stop button; and a registration unit that registers the get-up index as the information to be browsed in the server.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: NEC Biglobe, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Suzusho, Teppei Tsuchida, Fumitake Yoshikawa, Hiromi Nose
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Publication number: 20140237110Abstract: A monitoring device monitors operation states of servers. If information that indicates the operation states is requested from a supervisor terminal, the monitoring device generates display information that allows the supervisor terminal to graphically display the operation states and process commands for the servers and transmits the generated display information to the supervisor terminal. If process commands are transmitted from the supervisor terminal, the monitoring device causes the servers to execute processes based on the transmitted commands.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventors: TOSHIKO NAKANISHI, RIHITO KATO, MASARU SUGAI
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Patent number: 8793259Abstract: In an exemplary aspect, the present invention includes a control unit that when a keyword for search is entered, collects texts containing that keyword from texts stored in a storage unit, extracts a noun of collected first texts, determines a noun partially matching with the keyword as a first word, extracts a second text containing that first word among the first texts, extracts a word from the second text, the word being one of a noun, a verb, and an adjective, counts the number of times an extracted word is used, determines a word whose number of times of use is placed in predefined highest ranks as a second word, the second word being a related word to the first word, and outputs the first word and the second word.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: NEC Biglobe, Ltd.Inventor: Norikazu Matsumura
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Publication number: 20140194064Abstract: In a transmission and reception system, a transmitting and receiving unit is configured to acquire a message, and generate candidates of a reply message to the acquired message. A wearable computer is configured to perform a short-distance communication with the transmission and reception unit to receive the candidates of the replay message transmitted from the transmission and reception unit, and transmit a desired reply message selected from among the candidates of the replay message to the transmission and reception unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd.Inventor: TAKAHIRO MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20140149194Abstract: A communication terminal uses an application to request that an administrative server provide an invitation code. The administrative server generates and transmits an invitation code that is unique to the communication terminal and that can be used for a plurality of applications used for invitation code requests. The communication terminal discloses the invitation code that was transmitted, and also discloses application information, and when other communication terminals use the application to designate the invitation code, the administrative server grants benefits to the communication terminal according to an invitation number that is the number of communication terminals that have designated the invitation code.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventor: Kouji SUGANUMA
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Publication number: 20130336491Abstract: Waveform generating section 100 generates a waveform, and waveform collecting sections 200-1 to 200-3 collect the waveform generated by waveform generating section 100. Waveform comparing section 300 compares waveforms collected by waveform collecting sections 200-1 to 200-3 with each other. Group generating section 400 groups waveform collecting sections 200-1 to 200-3, which collected identical waveforms, into one group as a result of comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventors: Masaki HARA, Naoto KIUCHI, Noriyoshi ICHINOSE
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Patent number: 8612143Abstract: The passage determination device according to the present invention includes: a storage; a position information obtaining unit that obtains positions of the device at predetermined intervals; and a controller that causes the storage to store a course and a position of a passage point on the course set in advance by the user, and that causes the storage to store the positions obtained by the position information obtaining unit as well as times at which the positions are obtained, wherein the controller determines, if positions of the device enter a predetermined range of the passage point, a time at which the user passes through the passage point based on a position, from among the obtained positions within the predetermined range, that is closest to the passage point and a time at which the position is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignees: NEC Biglobe, Ltd., NEC System Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Haneishi, Tatsugo Ukegawa
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Patent number: 8576669Abstract: A position information acquisition section acquires position information about a mobile terminal, and a storage section stores hour information and position condition information inputted to an interface section in association with each other. When the hour shown by a clock becomes the hour indicated by the hour information stored in the storage section, a comparison section compares the position condition information stored in association with the hour information, with the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section. If the position information corresponds to the position condition information as a result of the comparison, a notification section gives a notification.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: NEC Biglobe Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihiro Onda
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Publication number: 20130235075Abstract: When an incoming call is received by communication section 120, control section 130 changes the state of display on display section 110 to a state of display set in advance, based on the present state of display. When a particular image is being displayed on display section 110, control section 130 changes the state of display on the display section to the state of display set in advance after performing display processing to conceal the particular image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiro ONDA
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Publication number: 20130225214Abstract: A push delivery apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a portion for sending information indicating which of contents kept in the delivery apparatus is to be received by a mobile terminal through a packet network to the mobile terminal in a first text message through a telephone network and for delivering a second text message which is a simplified version of the content to the mobile terminal through the telephone network if the mobile terminal does not acquire the content to be received by the mobile terminal within a predetermined period of time after sending the first text message.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventor: NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd.
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Publication number: 20130159138Abstract: A fraudulent-purchase alarm system for issuing an alarm about a fraudulent purchase of an article for sale includes: a first storage that stores a price of the article for sale; a second storage that stores purchase amounts of articles for sale purchased by a user of the fraudulent-purchase alarm system; a third storage that stores an upper limit of a total purchase amount of the user; and a controller that, upon receiving a purchase request to purchase the article for sale and identification information about the user, refers to the first to third storages to issue an alarm about a fraudulent purchase if a sum of the purchase amounts of articles already purchased by the user identified by the identification information and the price of the article for sale indicated in the purchase request exceeds the upper limit, wherein the controller lowers the upper limit if a predetermined condition for preventing a fraudulent purchase is met.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.Inventor: NEC BIGLOBE, LTD.
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Patent number: 8433666Abstract: A storage unit stores first link information classified into a particular type. A take-in unit takes in a plurality of pieces of electronic information. A classifier unit classifies each piece of the electronic information taken in by the take-in unit into first electronic information which describes the first link information and second electronic information which does not describe the first link information. A generator unit generates third link information based on second link information when the first electronic information describes the second link information that is different from the first link information. An output unit generates possibility information indicative of a possibility that the third link information is classified into a particular type, based on the third link information and at least the first or second electronic information, and outputs the possibility information and the third link information in association with each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: NEC Biglobe, Ltd.Inventor: Norikazu Matsumura
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Patent number: 8392987Abstract: A user terminal displays on its display unit a target web page including an authentication information input field into which input authentication information is inputted by the user terminal. The user terminal judges first to third validity levels for a plurality of login history information by referring to a login information list and a service group information. The user terminal selects a corresponding process from a plurality of predetermined processes for the input authentication information based on existence or absence of the login history information in the first or second validity level and on a result of checking the input authentication information with login information in the login history information in the first to third validity levels. The user terminal executes the corresponding process.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignees: NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd., NEC Informatec Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Sasamura, Masahiro Suzuki, Kouki Miyamoto, Yuuji Aoyagi, Takuya Nishio, Go Mase, Takayuki Sugimori