Abstract: A service activity support method includes, in response to receiving a request for support of a first service activity transmitted from a first terminal device positioned in a specific area determined virtually in a map, identifying a second terminal device positioned in the specific area, the second terminal device being different from the first terminal device, and transmitting information regarding the request to the identified second terminal device.

Abstract: An information processing server includes, a reception circuit configured to transmit a notification that a first measurable condition is satisfied in a case where an executor existence signal indicating existence of a work executor is detected, a notification that a second measurable condition is satisfied in a case where a subject existence signal indicating existence of a work subject is detected, and a notification that a third measurable condition is satisfied in a case where an access state of the work subject to information is detected, and a measurement circuit, coupled to the reception circuit, configured to start measurement of service time that is provided to the work subject when all measurable conditions from the first measurable condition to the third measurable condition are satisfied, and end the measurement of service time when any one of the measurable conditions is no longer satisfied.

Abstract: A system for information delivery includes: an electronic tag for holding a tag identifier being updatable; a server for storing the tag identifier held in the electronic tag and information corresponding to the tag identifier; and a terminal for causing the information corresponding to the tag identifier to be delivered from the server. The terminal includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a process. The process executed by the processor includes reading the tag identifier from the electronic tag, updating the tag identifier in the electronic tag with a new tag identifier that is different in content from the tag identifier read from the electronic tag, and establishing, after updating the tag identifier in the electronic tag, a time period in which a discrepancy between the tag identifier in the electronic tag and the tag identifier stored in the server occurs.

Abstract: A risk evaluation method executed by a processor included in a risk evaluation device, the risk evaluation method includes receiving, from a terminal device that includes a sensor and that is configured to receive a service, sensor information acquired by the sensor during a time period between sensing of a transition of a work situation and sensing of a subsequent transition, performed by the terminal device; calculating, from the received sensor information, a risk evaluation value obtained by indexing a risk around the terminal device; determining whether the risk evaluation value is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and notifying a management device to manage the terminal device of information based on a result of the determining when it is determined that the risk evaluation value is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: An estimation method causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes: extracting at least one event that occurs with respect to a work target in a time period from first performance of specific work to second performance of the specific work performed after the first performance, out of the plurality of events which includes at least one session of the specific work performed for the work target, stored in a storage unit that associates the plurality of events with date and times in which the plurality of events occurred respectively; and estimating service provision time of the specific work at the time of the second performance, based on the at least one event.

Abstract: A system for information delivery includes: an electronic tag for holding a tag identifier being updatable; a server for storing the tag identifier held in the electronic tag and information corresponding to the tag identifier; and a terminal for causing the information corresponding to the tag identifier to be delivered from the server. The terminal includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a process. The process executed by the processor includes reading the tag identifier from the electronic tag, updating the tag identifier in the electronic tag with a new tag identifier that is different in content from the tag identifier read from the electronic tag, and establishing, after updating the tag identifier in the electronic tag, a time period in which a discrepancy between the tag identifier in the electronic tag and the tag identifier stored in the server occurs.

Abstract: An application control method executed by an information processing apparatus the application control method includes: determining a first application from among a plurality of applications that were activated after inactivation of a second application, according to time periods from a time of the inactivation to a time when each of the plurality of the applications were activated, when the second application enters active state, and presenting the first application after another inactivation of the second application.

Abstract: This information search support method includes: upon detecting that a first operation of a user is an operation relating to browsing, performing search associated with data relating to the browsing to obtain a search result; extracting first feature data from the search result; upon detecting that a second operation of the user after the first operation is an operation relating to searching, adding data relating to the second operation to an operation history; extracting second feature data from the operation history; calculating a fitness degree between the first feature data and the second feature data; and upon detecting that the fitness degree is equal to or greater than a threshold, displaying the search result for the user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute a process. The process includes detecting a browsing operation by a user with respect to a web page displayed on a screen; detecting browsing of map information relevant to the web page; storing, in a storage unit, browsing history in which location information corresponding to the obtained map information and the obtained browsing operation are associated with each other; extracting a map attention level corresponding to a browsing operation performed on the map information, with respect to the browsing history stored in the storage unit; and classifying the web page for each item of the location information, by using the obtained map attention level.

Abstract: An application control method executed by an information processing apparatus the application control method includes: determining a first application from among a plurality of applications that were activated after inactivation of a second application, according to time periods from a time of the inactivation to a time when each of the plurality of the applications were activated, when the second application enters active state, and presenting the first application after another inactivation of the second application.

Abstract: A search query generator apparatus includes a computing device including a processor and an information manipulation database. The computing device includes an information manipulation monitor unit to detect information manipulations that a user has performed with a computer by monitoring information manipulations in the computer performed by the user and a task detection unit to detect a task of the user by analyzing data relating to the information manipulations accumulated in the information manipulation database, and wherein the information manipulation database accumulates data relating to information manipulations detected by the information manipulation monitor unit.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a display and a touch panel device that detects an operation on a display screen of the display. The portable terminal includes a determining whether scroll is enabled within an application screen in a scroll direction corresponding to a scroll operation, when the scroll operation on the application screen in the display screen is detected. The portable terminal further includes an entire scrolling the entire application screen in the scroll direction corresponding to the scroll operation, when the determining includes determining that the scroll is not enabled within the application screen.

Abstract: A search index generation apparatus includes: an information manipulation monitor unit detecting an information manipulation performed by a user on a computer by monitoring the information manipulation of the user on the computer; an information manipulation database for accumulation of data relating to an information manipulation detected by the information manipulation monitor unit; and a task detection unit analyzing the data relating to the information manipulation accumulated in the information manipulation database, detecting a task of the user, identifying an information group processed in the task, and recording the data relating to the task in the task database.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a processor. The processor obtains first information relating to communication states between the terminal apparatus and two or more other terminal apparatuses and between the other terminal apparatuses. The processor identifies using trilateration, based on the first information, first relative positional relationships between the terminal apparatus and the other terminal apparatuses. The processor measures, based on second information detected by a sensor, a movement direction and a movement distance of the terminal apparatus when the terminal apparatus has moved. The processor identifies second relative positional relationships between the terminal apparatus and the other terminal apparatuses after the movement of the terminal apparatus.

Abstract: Record history record processing accumulates all user operations relating to program recording in a storage as a recording history. Preference change analysis processing extracts recorded programs in the most recent period from the recording history, obtains the weight of a word in the recorded program from an index from an EPG, adds the weight of the word to a preference in a period. The preference in programs for a period immediately preceding the most recent period is normalized, and a degree of similarity to the preference in the most recent period is calculated. Preference query generation processing emphasizes (five-fold) the weight of the words contained in the recorded programs in the period (June) and generates a preference query.

Abstract: A retrieval information that is a retrieval target, acquired from an information source, is arranged on a vector space. Data of a usage information and a content specifying manners of usage, used by the user in the past is acquired by a usage-information acquisition unit. A user's preference extraction unit extracts a preference of a user from the data, and notifies a number-of-effective-elements reduction unit of the extracted data. The number-of-effective-elements reduction unit evaluates each element of a vector of retrieval information by using the preference of the user, and reduces the number of effective elements by removing the elements smaller than a certain criteria.

Abstract: An information recommendation apparatus and method displaying recommendation information based on a user's preference generated from a search index of information of operation(s) previously performed by the user including calculating a degree of similarity between recommendation information and operation information based on a search index for the recommendation information and a search index for the operation information, and outputting operation information having a degree of similarity that satisfies a specified condition as a recommendation reason for the recommendation information.

Abstract: A plurality of processes executed on an operating system of a computer are monitored, the correspondence relations between each process and pieces of information processed by each process are registered in a process management table. Then, the relations between the pieces of information are extracted by analyzing what processes have been executed between the pieces of information of each process by referring to the result of the monitoring of the processes and to the process management table. The extracted relations between the pieces of information are registered into an attribute information table created for each piece of information of each process. A plural pieces of related information are displayed in a related information list based on the attribute information table of certain information being processed and pieces of related information selected in the list are accessed.

Abstract: Record history record processing accumulates all user operations relating to program recording in a storage as a recording history. Preference change analysis processing extracts recorded programs in the most recent period from the recording history, obtains the weight of a word in the recorded program from an index from an EPG, adds the weight of the word to a preference in a period. The preference in programs for a period immediately preceding the most recent period is normalized, and a degree of similarity to the preference in the most recent period is calculated. Preference query generation processing emphasizes (five-fold) the weight of the words contained in the recorded programs in the period (June) and generates a preference query (FIG. 7).

Abstract: A retrieval information that is a retrieval target, acquired from an information source, is arranged on a vector space. Data of a usage information and a content specifying manners of usage, used by the user in the past is acquired by a usage-information acquisition unit. A user's preference extraction unit extracts a preference of a user from the data, and notifies a number-of-effective-elements reduction unit of the extracted data. The number-of-effective-elements reduction unit evaluates each element of a vector of retrieval information by using the preference of the user, and reduces the number of effective elements by removing the elements smaller than a certain criteria.