Abstract: An information displaying apparatus includes a presentation displaying unit that displays presentation information on a display unit, a pointing-input receiving unit that receives a pointing to the display unit, a pointing-area detecting unit that detects a pointing area with respect to a predetermined coordinate area including the displayed presentation information, an attention-area determining unit that determines an attention area with respect to the presentation information based on the detected pointing area and an attention-area determination rule, and a highlight displaying unit that displays the determined attention area in a highlighting manner with respect to the presentation information.

Abstract: A conference supporting apparatus acquires structured data recorded with conference content in time series, and acquires information input during a conference. Keywords are extracted from the structured data and the input information. An abstract level of each of the keywords is specified in accordance with predetermined rules. Importance level of each of the keywords is calculated based on the input information. Finally, a heading for each of the abstract levels is specified from the keywords based on the importance levels.

Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus includes a display which displays document information, an input unit which adds additional information to the document information displayed the display, a first storage which stores mark symbol information specifying a particular symbol used for marking, a detector which detects an input from the input unit and decides whether or not the input additional information is identical to or similar to the mark symbol information stored in the first storage, a second storage which stores the mark symbol information and the additional information which is decided that it is similar to the mark symbol information by the detector, associating with the mark symbol information, and a retrieval unit which retrieves the mark symbol information and the additional information associated with the mark symbol information from the second storage, and a retrieval result by the retrieval unit is displayed on the display.

Abstract: An agent system processes information by agents. The agent system is connected to an agent system of different type through a network. A wrapper class memory stores component data of wrappers corresponding to each type of agent system. The wrapper specially processes information in a corresponding agent system. A wrapper generation section generates a wrapper corresponding to an agent system of a different type based on the component data of the different type in the wrapper class memory. The wrapper acts for the agent to use resources in the other agent system.

Abstract: External data acquired via an input device during display of presentation information on a display device is recorded, and feature amounts are calculated from the external data. An importance level is calculated by integrating the feature amounts for each section during the display period of the presentation information. First headline information of a part of the presentation information corresponding to a section having an importance level which exceeds a predetermined threshold is generated, and is presented to be aligned along the time axis. Previous display contents of the presentation information are searched for in response to a selection operation of the first headline information, and are displayed on the display device. Second headline information of a part of the presentation information corresponding to the section when the selection operation was made is generated, and is presented on the display device.

Abstract: A context estimation rule is applied to spare time on a user's schedule, and contexts are estimated. On the basis of a task template, an input task is divided into plural subtasks. A task recommendation rule for recommending tasks to do from the relation between contexts and metadata of tasks is applied to the spare time of the user, and tasks to do in the spare time are recommended on the basis of the contexts of the spare time and the metadata of the subtasks. The recommended tasks are managed as schedules.

Abstract: A multiple-contents distribution in a client and server system is disclosed. The multiple-contents contain contents-pieces, which are to be distributed to a set of clients including mobile phone terminals. The set of clients are registered with the server in response to registration requests. The server determines an order of the registered set of clients. The server then initiates a distribution of the contents-pieces to the registered sets of clients, wherein the contents-pieces are selected in accordance with the order of the clients.

Abstract: A multiple-contents distribution in a client and server system is disclosed. The multiple-contents contain contents-pieces, which are to be distributed to a set of clients including mobile phone terminals. The set of clients are registered with the server in response to registration requests. The server determines an order of the registered set of clients. The server then initiates a distribution of the contents-pieces to the registered sets of clients, wherein the contents-pieces are selected in accordance with the order of the clients.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technology relating to an agent system for generating an excellent plan. A script can be freely described by individually storing an action definition and the script without any limitation due to a language form of the action definition. Constructing as one of agent functions an update of knowledge using information acquired by execution, removes the necessity for the description of operations relating to an update in the plan. Diversification of contents of a replanning enhances a flexibility of the operations by an agent. Furthermore, when the agent moves among nodes, both of the agent and the node decide reliabilities of nodes to and from which the agent moves, so that a safety of information processing is improved. By preserving information used for restoring the agent at the time of the move of the agent, the agent having interrupted its action due to trouble can resume the action.

Abstract: A context recognition unit decides a user's context by comparing context recognition rules to the user's information, and outputs context recognition data based on the user's context. A processing selection unit decides a contents type by comparing processing selection rules to the context recognition data, and outputs contents creation request data based on the contents type. A contents delivery unit obtains contents based on the contents creation request data, and delivers the contents to the user's terminal. A question creation unit creates a question about the contents delivery for the user. Each context recognition rule and each processing selection rule includes a priority degree. The question creation unit specifies the context recognition rule or the processing selection rule based on the user's answer to the question, and changes the priority degree of the specified rule.

Abstract: An agent system processes information by agents. The agent system is connected to an agent system of different type through a network. A wrapper class memory stores component data of wrappers corresponding to each type of agent system. The wrapper specially processes information in a corresponding agent system. A wrapper generation section generates a wrapper corresponding to an agent system of a different type based on the component data of the different type in the wrapper class memory. The wrapper acts for the agent to use resources in the other agent system.

Abstract: An agent system processes information by agents. The agent system is connected to an agent system of different type through a network. A wrapper class memory stores component data of wrappers corresponding to each type of agent system. The wrapper specially processes information in a corresponding agent system. A wrapper generation section generates a wrapper corresponding to an agent system of a different type based on the component data of the different type in the wrapper class memory. The wrapper acts for the agent to use resources in the other agent system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technology relating to an agent system for generating an excellent plan. A script can be freely described by individually storing an action definition and the script without any limitation due to a language form of the action definition. Constructing as one of agent functions an update of knowledge using information acquired by execution, removes the necessity for the description of operations relating to an update in the plan. Diversification of contents of a re-planning enhances a flexibility of the operations by an agent. Furthermore, when the agent moves among nodes, both of the agent and the node decide reliabilities of nodes to and from which the agent moves, so that a safety of information processing is improved. By preserving information used for restoring the agent at the time of the move of the agent, the agent having interrupted its action due to trouble can resume the action.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technology relating to an agent system for generating an excellent plan. A script can be freely described by individually storing an action definition and the script without any limitation due to a language form of the action definition. Constructing as one of agent functions an update of knowledge using information acquired by execution, removes the necessity for the description of operations relating to an update in the plan. Diversification of contents of a replanning enhances a flexibility of the operations by an agent. Furthermore, when the agent moves among nodes, both of the agent and the node decide reliabilities of nodes to and from which the agent moves, so that a safety of information processing is improved. By preserving information used for restoring the agent at the time of the move of the agent, the agent having interrupted its action due to trouble can resume the action.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of network-connected information processing apparatuses stores restriction information defined for each agent in order to restrict the operation of the agent which moves to the self apparatus and runs. When the agent is to move from the first information processing apparatus as one of the plurality of information processing apparatuses to the second information processing apparatus as another information processing apparatus, the first information processing apparatus receives restriction information corresponding to the agent from the second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus selects at least one of a plurality of components in correspondence with the second information processing apparatus on the basis of the restriction information, and moves the agent holding the selected component to the second information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A multiple-contents distribution in a client and server system is disclosed. The multiple-contents contain contents-pieces, which are to be distributed to a set of clients including mobile phone terminals. The set of clients are registered with the server in response to registration requests. The server determines an order of the registered set of clients. The server then initiates a distribution of the contents-pieces to the registered sets of clients, wherein the contents-pieces are selected in accordance with the order of the clients.

Abstract: An information processing method of executing an information process to solve a provided preposition by at least one information processing apparatus having a resource comprises preparing a plurality of plans to solve the preposition, each of the plans including at least one process step, selecting one executable plan among the plans according to the resource of the information processing apparatus, and executing the process step included in the selected plan.