Abstract: An electronic device includes a storage unit that stores configuration data related to the electronic device, a configuration data writing unit that writes configuration data from the storage unit to the external storage device when electronic device power turns off, a configuration data updating unit that, after the configuration data is written to the external storage device, executes a deletion process to delete the configuration data in the storage unit, or an initialization process that resets the configuration data in the storage unit to a default initialization value, a configuration data reading unit that reads the configuration data from the external storage device when electronic device power turns on, a configuration unit that configures the electronic device based on the read configuration data, and a configuration data deletion unit that deletes the configuration data stored in the external storage device after the configuration unit completes configuring the electronic device.

Abstract: Information recorded to a tag device can be used effectively. A terminal device 30 has an input receiving unit (interface unit 40h) that accepts input of information recorded on a tag device 50, a query unit (CPU 40f) that sends input information to the server device and requests verification of the validity of the product, and a presentation unit (display unit 40g) that presents information that is transmitted when the validity of the product is verified. The server device has a recording unit (hard disk drive 10b) that records information related to the product, a verification unit (CPU 10e) that determines validity when the terminal device requests verification of product validity, and a transmission unit (10g) that acquires and sends the corresponding information recorded in the recording unit to the terminal device when validity is verified.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a storage unit that stores configuration data related to the electronic device, a configuration data writing unit that writes configuration data from the storage unit to the external storage device when electronic device power turns off, a configuration data updating unit that, after the configuration data is written to the external storage device, executes a deletion process to delete the configuration data in the storage unit, or an initialization process that resets the configuration data in the storage unit to a default initialization value, a configuration data reading unit that reads the configuration data from the external storage device when electronic device power turns on, a configuration unit that configures the electronic device based on the read configuration data, and a configuration data deletion unit that deletes the configuration data stored in the external storage device after the configuration unit completes configuring the electronic device.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a semiconductor storage apparatus managing system for implementing a semiconductor storage apparatus which can be actually utilized in place of a hard disk apparatus. A semiconductor storage apparatus managing system SY for managing an apparatus lifetime of a semiconductor storage apparatus 10 having a semiconductor memory area 15 for storing data and a defective block substituting area 16 for substituting a defective block in the semiconductor memory area 15,includes a storage apparatus side controller 12 for detecting the number of consumed blocks in the defective block substituting area 16 and a host side controller 31 for predicting the apparatus lifetime of the semiconductor storage apparatus 10 based on a result of the detection and giving a notice of a result of the prediction.

Abstract: A degree of fraud calculating device, a control method for a degree of fraud calculating device, and a store surveillance system can detect fraudulent activity with a high degree of accuracy. A fraud pattern storage unit 71 that stores a fraud pattern, which sets a basic score that is a weight factor for one or more elements of fraud anticipated in the store; a fraud detection unit 72 that detects if one or more the fraud elements occur; a degree of fraud calculating unit 73 that calculates a degree of fraud by summing the basic scores of the fraud elements detected by the fraud detection unit to have occurred; and a degree of fraud recorder 74 that records the calculated results output by the degree of fraud calculator 73 in a fraud database 23.

Abstract: An information processing device, an information processing system, a control method for an information processing device, and a program can detect POS terminal operations without modifying the POS terminal. An output data acquisition unit 21 acquires output data that is output from a POS terminal 1. An operation determination unit 22 evaluates the operation of the POS terminal 1 based on the acquired output data. A data conversion unit 23 converts the result from the operation determination unit 22 to data in a specific format that can be interpreted by a store management server 5. A converted data output unit 24 outputs the converted data converted by the data conversion unit 23 to the store management server 5.

Abstract: A store surveillance system, a warning device for use in such system, a store surveillance control method, and program-based instruction implementations of such method facilitate the detection of fraudulent activity in a retail store, supermarket, or other type of store. A store management server has a pattern storage unit that stores occurrence patterns of specific events that occur in a store; a POS terminal that executes a product transaction process; a employee surveillance camera that monitors component factors of the occurrence patterns; and a card reader.

Abstract: Information recorded to a tag device can be used effectively. A terminal device 30 has an input receiving unit (interface unit 40h) that accepts input of information recorded on a tag device 50, a query unit (CPU 40f) that sends input information to the server device and requests verification of the validity of the product, and a presentation unit (display unit 40g) that presents information that is transmitted when the validity of the product is verified. The server device has a recording unit (hard disk drive 10b) that records information related to the product, a verification unit (CPU 10e) that determines validity when the terminal device requests verification of product validity, and a transmission unit (10g) that acquires and sends the corresponding information recorded in the recording unit to the terminal device when validity is verified.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a semiconductor storage apparatus managing system for implementing a semiconductor storage apparatus which can be actually utilized in place of a hard disk apparatus. A semiconductor storage apparatus managing system SY for managing an apparatus lifetime of a semiconductor storage apparatus 10 having a semiconductor memory area 15 for storing data and a defective block substituting area 16 for substituting a defective block in the semiconductor memory area 15, includes a storage apparatus side controller 12 for detecting the number of consumed blocks in the defective block substituting area 16 and a host side controller 31 for predicting the apparatus lifetime of the semiconductor storage apparatus 10 based on a result of the detection and giving a notice of a result of the prediction.

Abstract: A storage device includes: a ferroelectric memory that temporarily stores data, wherein the ferroelectric memory stores an error correction code that is used for verifying the data by correcting errors possibly occurring on the data stored; a storage medium that has a plurality of storage regions and continually stores the data in one of the plurality of storage regions; and a control section that (1) writes the data and the error correction code to the ferroelectric memory, (2) writes the data written in the ferroelectric memory to one of the storage regions in the storage medium, (3) compares the data that is written in the ferroelectric memory and has been verified by using the error correction code written in the ferroelectric memory with the data written to the one of the storage regions in the storage medium, and (4) rewrites the data that has been verified to another one of the storage regions in the storage medium when both of the data do not match each other.

Abstract: A computer system that supports an advanced operating system and advanced application programs that create high resolution images for display and further supports old operating system and application software that run as subordinate processes to the advanced operating system of the computer and which create low resolution images for display, wherein images from both the advanced and old software are displayed, at high resolution, simultaneously on the computer system's display device, typically in separate windows, has a high resolution graphics control pathway and a low resolution graphics control pathway, both for displaying images over the entire viewable area of a display device. In this way, when one of the images seen in a high resolution window is an image generated by software that only produces enough data to drive a low resolution display, that image can be redisplayed at the resolution that it was originally intended to be displayed at, in order to see that image more clearly.