Abstract: The network server stores the order information and the customer information received from the order entry channel in a database with identification information of the retailer system that has mediated the order, extracts, in response to a request from the retailer system, at least one of the order information, the customer information corresponding to the identification information of the retailer system having made the request, and information obtained based on at least one of the order information and the customer information from the database, and provides to the retailer system. The network order system includes the network server for receiving and managing at least the order information.

Abstract: A service server comprising: a database for registering a voice message; an access information issuing device which issues access information required for inputting the voice message from a user terminal through a network; a print instructing device which sends the access information to a printer along with a given picture to cause the printer to print the access information and the picture on the same print medium; an access information input device in which access information obtained on a user terminal is inputted from the user terminal through the network on the basis of the print medium; a voice message input device in which a voice message is inputted through the network from a user terminal sending the access information; a voice message registration device which registers the voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the access information in the database in association with the access information; and a voice message output device which outputs the voice message registered in the data

Abstract: An image uploaded from a camera-equipped cellular phone, and additional information attached to the image such as voice information and the like are managed in a database in a service server. Then, an URL for accessing the additional information is issued and converted into a QR code. Order information including the image and the QR code are sent to the print device, and a photo print having the image and the QR code printed on a print paper is produced. When the camera-equipped cellular phone reads the QR code on the photo print and accesses by use of the URL acquired by decrypting the above described QR code, the managed additional information on the image is read from the database correspondingly to the URL, and sent to the camera-equipped cellular phone which has accessed.

Abstract: In an image network system used for network print service which receives an order for printing or the like by using a communication network such as the Internet, there are provided a center server capable of providing service which is different depending upon points given to a customer according to an order track record, at a time of using the system, capable of suitably setting a storage capacity and a storage period of an image for a user without placing a burden on the user while importance is placed on an operational efficiency of the system, capable of allowing a user to upload images as many as possible in an album, and useful for prompting an order, and an image network system including the center server.

Abstract: The network server stores the order information and the customer information received from the order entry channel in a database with identification information of the retailer system that has mediated the order, extracts, in response to a request from the retailer system, at least one of the order information, the customer information corresponding to the identification information of the retailer system having made the request, and information obtained based on at least one of the order information and the customer information from the database, and provides to the retailer system. The network order system includes the network server for receiving and managing at least the order information.

Abstract: There are provided a network server connected to an order entry channel for receiving image data and an order and a lab system for creating a product according to the order through a communication network. The network server includes an order receiving function section which accepts the order from the order entry channel; an image management function section which manages the image data sent from the order entry channel; a lab order receiving server which stores order information and the image data in relation to each other; a counting function section which counts the image data sent from the order entry channel to the network server or the order information stored in the lab order receiving server for a predetermined period; and a processing function section which processes a counting result obtained by the counting function section with a predetermined unit.

Abstract: A network system for carrying out communication between a control station and a plurality of devices connected to a network. The communication includes data communication which requires real-time attributes and message communication which does not require real-time attributes. The data communication includes a first data communication, and a second data communication. The system includes a plurality of transmission queues for temporarily storing transmission data provided in the control station, wherein one of the queues holds transmission data for the second communication. After the first data communication is carried out in accordance with a predetermined cycle time, an appropriate switching between the message communication and the second communication is carried out in the remaining time of the cycle time to complete one cycle, whereafter the cycle is repeatedly carried out.

Abstract: The present invention provides a voice file generating system which generates a voice file in a reproduction format which is a voice reproduction format specific to the model of a cellular phone which accesses the system in accordance with access information embedded in a two-dimensional code, comprising a receiving section which receives a voice file in a recording format different from the reproduction format and a converting section which converts the received voice file in the recording format to the voice file in the reproduction format of a sound quality in a given range so that the voice file is reduced to a size that can be downloaded to the cellular phone.

Abstract: A service server comprising: a database for registering a voice message; an access information issuing device which issues access information required for inputting the voice message from a user terminal through a network; a print instructing device which sends the access information to a printer along with a given picture to cause the printer to print the access information and the picture on the same print medium; an access information input device in which access information obtained on a user terminal is inputted from the user terminal through the network on the basis of the print medium; a voice message input device in which a voice message is inputted through the network from a user terminal sending the access information; a voice message registration device which registers the voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the access information in the database in association with the access information; and a voice message output device which outputs the voice message registered in the data bas

Abstract: According to the present invention, a taken picture or additional information on the picture can be easily accessed from any user's user terminal on the basis of an index print or an instant film and users can easily enjoy the picture or additional information. Moreover, the present invention makes the best of a marginal frame section on an instant film to please a user with services other than just decorating the space.

Abstract: A service server for communicating with a user terminal via a network and delivering a voice message about a picture the server has received an order to print from the user to the user terminal, comprising: a database for managing a voice message to be provided for a user and a playing condition for the voice message; an inputting device for inputting a voice message and a playing condition to be managed in the database; an access information issuing device for issuing access information to obtain the voice message via a network for the database to manage in association with the voice message and playing condition; a print instruction device for sending the picture for which the server has received an order to print with access information to a printer to record the picture and access information on the same print medium; a determination device for determining whether the current condition matches a playing condition managed in the database when the service server accessed from a user terminal by using access

Abstract: An image uploaded from a camera-equipped cellular phone, and additional information attached to the image such as voice information and the like are managed in a database in a service server. Then, an URL for accessing the additional information is issued and converted into a QR code. Order information including the image and the QR code are sent to the print device, and a photo print having the image and the QR code printed on a print paper is produced. When the camera-equipped cellular phone reads the QR code on the photo print and accesses by means of the URL acquired by decrypting the above described QR code, the managed additional information on the image is read from the database correspondingly to the URL, and sent to the camera-equipped cellular phone which has accessed.

Abstract: A network system for carrying out communication between a control station and a plurality of devices connected to a network, wherein such communication includes data communication which requires real-time attributes and message communication which does not require real-time attributes, and wherein the data communication includes a first data communication in which data is transmitted from the control station to the devices and data in response to this transmission is transmitted from the devices to the control station, and a second data communication in which data is transmitted from the control station at a prescribed timing, includes a plurality of transmission queues for temporarily storing transmission data provided in the control station, wherein one of the queues holds transmission data for the second communication; wherein after the first data communication is carried out in accordance with a predetermined cycle time, an appropriate switching between the message communication and the second communicati