Abstract: A site check method is provided that enables a user to check, when the user accesses a predetermined site, whether the site is legitimate or not. The method includes a first display step in which, when the user accesses a first server managing the site from a first information terminal, the first server has the first information terminal display predetermined check information. The method further includes a second display step in which, when the user accesses a second server from a second information terminal, the second server has the second information terminal display the check information.

Abstract: When a user makes a remote log-in to a server apparatus from a terminal apparatus, a password managing apparatus, which manages the name of a user of the server apparatus, his/her direct log-in password and transformation rule, displays an authentication purpose symbol sequence on a display apparatus. The user transforms the displayed sequence by his/her transformation rule and supplies, via the terminal apparatus, his/her user name and the post-transformation symbol sequence to the server apparatus, which then sends them to the password managing apparatus. If the result of applying the user's transformation rule to any authentication purpose symbol sequence generated in the past coincides with the post-transformation symbol sequence, the password managing apparatus sends the direct log-in password to the server apparatus to pass the remote log-in to the server apparatus by the terminal apparatus as a success.

Abstract: A communication system preferable to a technique of allowing only an ISP (151) connecting a user terminal to the Internet to manage information about the charging for the service provided to the user by an ASP (132) in the Internet so as to prevent credit card information on the credit card of the user from leaking into the Internet and preferable to dial-up server for providing connection with access limit to a computer communication network such as the Internet to a terminal, a relay device, a service providing device, a relay method, a service providing method, and a program product for realizing them. The feasibility of the relay between a terminal (111) and an ASP (132)I by an ISP (151) is determined on the basis of the relay condition (for example, the condition determined by the IP address and the port number) correlated with the user using the terminal (111). The system inquires of the ISP (151) if the ASP (132) provides a service to the terminal (111).

Abstract: A score management system comprises mobile terminals and a score management server which are connected to each other via a wireless communication network. The score management server stores score data, receives a request for displaying score status from the mobile terminal, transmits data representing the score status based on the stored score data to the mobile terminal, receives a request for inputting new score data from the mobile terminal, and updates the stored score data based on the received request for inputting the new score data.

Abstract: A receiver receives e-mails. In the case where an address of an e-mail is a user's e-mail address which is managed by another e-mail server device, a transfer unit transfers the e-mail to the another e-mail server device. In the case where an address of an e-mail is a user's e-mail address which is managed by an e-mail server device including an inquiry unit, this inquiry unit inquires of the corresponding user whether to accept the e-mail to be delivered from its e-mail addresser. In the case where the user does not accept the e-mail to be delivered, a notification unit sends a message for informing the addresser that there is no user having a public e-mail address. In the case where the conditions for delivering an e-mail are all satisfied, a delivery unit delivers the e-mail to a user having a public e-mail address.

Abstract: The present invention is a user verification method and a user verification system, in which a password derivation pattern for each user is pre-registered into a verification server, and when a user is to use the system, the verification server generates a presented pattern and presents this to the user, the user inputs a password corresponding to the user's own password derivation pattern for the presented pattern, the verification server performs verification of the inputted password based on the presented pattern and the user's own password derivation pattern that was registered, and a verification result is then notified to the usage target system.

Abstract: A generating section generates a presentation symbol string for receiving a next authentication request to an authenticated ID, a storing section stores a transformation rule and a sending destination of the presentation symbol string to be associated with each ID, a sending section sends “the generated presentation symbol string” to a display terminal, which is “the sending destination of the presentation symbol string stored in the storing section to be associated with the authenticated ID”, an updating section causes the storing section to further store the presentation symbol string sent to be associated with the authenticated ID to perform update, a receiving section receives an authentication request that designates an ID and a transformed symbol string from an access terminal, and an authenticating section causes authentication of the ID to succeed when a condition is satisfied where “the received transformed symbol string matches a transformation result obtained by applying ‘the transformation rule st

Abstract: A bearing member manufacturing method manufactures a bearing member 20 formed of a light-metal-base material and capable of stably supporting a rotational shaft at a reduced manufacturing cost. The bearing member manufacturing method manufactures a bearing member 20 including a bearing body 21 formed of a first material, a light-metal-base material, and a bearing part 22 formed of a light-metal-base material different from that forming the body part 21, the bearing part 22 having a bearing surface 23 and bonded to the body part 21. A first workpiece 30 having a cylindrical inside surface 30a serving as the bearing surface 23 is placed in a mold 50. The molten first material is poured into a cavity 56 surrounding the first workpiece 30 to cast a second workpiece 32. The first workpiece 30 and the second workpiece 32 are bonded metallurgically along the interface between the first work-piece 30 and the second workpiece 32 to form a primary workpiece 34 in the form of a semifinished workpiece 33.

Abstract: A communication system preferable to a technique of allowing only an ISP (151) connecting a user terminal to the Internet to manage information about the charging for the service provided to the user by an ASP (132) in the Internet so as to prevent credit card information on the credit card of the user from leaking into the Internet and preferable to dial-up server for providing connection with access limit to a computer communication network such as the Internet to a terminal, a relay device, a service providing device, a relay method, a service providing method, and a program product for realizing them. The feasibility of the relay between a terminal (111) and an ASP (132)I by an ISP (151) is determined on the basis of the relay condition (for example, the condition determined by the IP address and the port number) correlated with the user using the terminal (111). The system inquires of the ISP (151) if the ASP (132) provides a service to the terminal (111).

Abstract: A map server 151 transmits information representing travel time between a nearby point and a via point as a response. An ISP 171 transmits information representing travel time between destination and the via point as a response. A travel time obtaining server 161 accepts an enquiry indicating a nearby point and destination from a terminal 111, and selects a ISP 171 on which the destination is registered from a plurality of the ISP 171. The travel time obtaining server 161 obtains information representing a via point and travel time A between the travel-time and the destination from the selected ISP 171, and obtains information representing travel time B between the nearby point and the via point from the map server 151. The travel time obtaining server 161 calculates A+B, and transmits information representing the calculation result to the terminal 111 as a response.

Abstract: A receiver receives e-mails. In the case where an address of an e-mail is a user's e-mail address which is managed by another e-mail server device, a transfer unit transfers the e-mail to the another e-mail server device. In the case where an address of an e-mail is a user's e-mail address which is managed by an e-mail server device including an inquiry unit, this inquiry unit inquires of the corresponding user whether to accept the e-mail to be delivered from its e-mail addresser. In the case where the user does not accept the e-mail to be delivered, a notification unit sends a message for informing the addresser that there is no user having a public e-mail address. In the case where the conditions for delivering an e-mail are all satisfied, a delivery unit delivers the e-mail to a user having a public e-mail address.

Abstract: A map server 151 transmits information representing travel time between a nearby point and a via point as a response. An ISP 171 transmits information representing travel time between destination and the via point as a response. A travel time obtaining server 161 accepts an enquiry indicating a nearby point and destination from a terminal 111, and selects a ISP 171 on which the destination is registered from a plurality of the ISP 171. The travel time obtaining server 161 obtains information representing a via point and travel time A between the travel time and the destination from the selected ISP 171. and obtains information representing travel time B between the nearby point and the via point from the map server 151. The travel time obtaining server 161 calculates A+B, and transmits information representing the calculation result to the terminal 111 as a response.

Abstract: A simple, convenient and reliable method provided for identifying a user through a computer network. This method comprises the steps of sending a string of characters randomly selected from a table recording a set of characters from a central computer to a terminal computer, converting one or more characters from the string according to a conversion rule, sending one or more characters from the terminal computer to the central computer and identifying the user of the terminal computer based on the string of characters sent from the central computer, the conversion rule and the one or more characters sent by the user.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method and its device for acquiring swiftly and firmly the connectivity information of electric conductor cords for connecting a plurality of apparatus groups or switching boards in information wiring facilities. The unused extra cores of an electric plural core conductor cord for connecting every apparatuses of apparatus groups A and B with each other through switching boards are connected to a voltage applicator and a voltage (or current) detector through information collecting connectors and the electric connectivity restrictions between every apparatuses of the apparatus groups of the electric conductor cord described above are acquired depending on its electric conduction. According to the invention, the connectivity information of the electric conductor cords in information wiring facilities can be obtained accurately and firmly. Furthermore, the use of the extra cores enable to reduce the cost of the device and to easily apply the invention to the facilities already built.