Abstract: A terminal device includes a transmission/reception unit that transmits, to a server device, information necessary for judgment as to whether to permit use of content. The server device includes a judgment unit that judges whether to permit the terminal device to use the content, based on terminal device management information set by a content provider, and the information necessary for the judgment and received from the terminal device. A notification data storage unit stores notifications to be presented to a user of the terminal device; and a transmission/reception unit transmits either information necessary for use of the content or one of the notifications according to a result of the judgment by the judgment unit.

Abstract: A server device (100a) includes a first generation unit (102a) generating binding information binding a user with content, a second acquisition unit (103a) acquiring a usage rule, a second generation unit (104a) generating a converted title key from a title key by using the binding information and the usage rule, and an output unit (105a) outputting content encrypted using the title key, the converted title key and the usage rule to the storage medium (600a). A playback device (700a) includes a generation unit (704a) performing the reverse of the conversion on the converted title key of the storage medium (600a) to generate a decrypted title key, by using the binding information received from the server device (100a) and the usage rule of the storage medium (600a), and a decryption unit (705a) decrypting the encrypted content of the storage medium (600a) by using the title key.

Abstract: A device control method used in a device control system in which an operation terminal is used to remotely operate a device with a server device mediating between the operation terminal and the device, the device control method including: acquiring, upon reception of an operation instruction for operation of the device from the operation terminal, environment information pertaining to at least one of the device and the operation terminal; performing a determination of whether or not to cause execution of processing corresponding to the operation instruction based on whether or not the environment information satisfies a predetermined condition; and causing the device to execute an execution command for execution of the processing when a result of the determination is affirmative, and not causing the device to execute the execution command when the result of the determination is negative.

Abstract: Device control method including: operation receiving step of receiving a device control operation for controlling a device; determining step of determining whether an operation terminal is in a first state or a second state; limiting step of, when determined in the determining step that the operation terminal is in the second state, limiting a range of controls of the device made available to the operation terminal when in the second state so as to correspond to part of a range of controls of the device made available to the operation terminal when in the first state; and device controlling step of controlling the device based on the device control operation. When determined in the determining step that the operation terminal is in the second state, the device is controlled within the range of controls of the device made available to the operation terminal when in the second state.

Abstract: A storage unit 601g of a recording medium device 600g stores a content and a revocation list. The revocation list includes a revocation identifier that is associated with the content and identifies a revoked public key certificate allocated to an apparatus related to use of the content. A controller 602g of the recording medium device 600g is provided with an acquisition unit 621g that acquires, from an apparatus 300g, an acquisition request for the content and an apparatus identifier identifying a public key certificate of the apparatus 300g; a judgment unit 622g that judges whether the apparatus identifier matches a revocation identifier; and a control unit 623g that controls to prohibit output of the content to the apparatus when the apparatus identifier and the revocation identifier match.

Abstract: A user-friendly cooperative process execution method for causing household electric devices that are registered to a server to execute cooperative processes. The server stores correspondence information associating a particular operation to be executed by a particular household electric device with one or more groups each composed of one or more household electric devices, and indicating, for each of the household electric devices in each of the groups, a control signal to be transmitted to the household electric device. The method includes: detecting whether or not the particular operation is executed; selecting one of the groups that is composed of one or more household electric devices that are registered to the server by referring to the correspondence information when the execution of the particular operation is detected; and transmitting the control signal to each of the household electric devices in the selected group.

Abstract: To provide a signal generation circuit having a short settling time of an output voltage. In a PTAT signal generation circuit, a trimming circuit is coupled between the cathodes of 0-th to K-th diodes and a line of a ground voltage, the anode of the 0-th diode is coupled to a first node, the anodes of the first to the K-th diodes are coupled to a second node via a resistive element, the first node and the second node are set to the same voltage, a first current flowing through the 0-th diode and a second current flowing through the first to the K-th diodes are set to have the same value, and a third current flowing through the trimming circuit is set to have the value 2 times that of each of the first current and the second current.

Abstract: A sales device 100a includes: a first acquisition unit 108a acquiring a request for purchasing content from a user; a second acquisition unit 109a acquiring first identification information for a service, from a medium carrying the first identification information; a judgment unit 112a judging whether or not the request is received before a period during which the content is purchasable in a form of a packaged medium, and judging, by using the first identification information, whether or not the user is entitled to the service; an encryption unit 105a, when the request is received before the period and the user is entitled to the service, encrypting the content to generate encrypted content usable only on a terminal device that the user has; and a transmission unit 103a transmitting the encrypted content to the terminal device before the period.

Abstract: Novel tricyclic pyrimidine compounds and tricyclic pyridine compounds having JAK inhibitory activities are provided. A tricyclic heterocyclic compound represented by the formula (Ia): wherein the rings Aa and Ba, Xa, Ya, R1a, R2a, R3a, L1a L2a, L3a and na are as defined in the description.

Abstract: To provide a playback device capable of requesting for a content generated in a format compatible with its processing capability and playing back the content, with no need of user input of a user ID or the like. A playback device for playing back contents reads, from an external recording medium, a playback right of a content to play back one or more contents that each have been generated based on a content and in a format compatible with a processing capability different for each playback device, and transmits the playback right and capability information indicating a processing capability of the playback device to a server device. The playback device acquires, from the server device, one of the one or more contents corresponding to the playback right in a format compatible with its processing capability indicated by the capability information, and plays back the acquired content.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory card comprising a control IC 302, a flash memory 303, and a ROM 304. The ROM 304 holds information such as a medium ID 341 unique to the semiconductor memory card. The flash memory 303 includes an authentication memory 332 and a non-authentication memory 331. The authentication memory 332 can be accessed only by external devices which have been affirmatively authenticated. The non-authentication memory 331 can be accessed by external devices whether the external devices have been affirmatively authenticated or not. The control IC 302 includes control units 325 and 326, an authentication unit 321 and the like. The control units 325 and 326 control accesses to the authentication memory 332 and the non-authentication memory 331, respectively. The authentication unit 321 executes a mutual authentication with an external device.

Abstract: The management apparatus 105a manages copying of information from an original recording medium 101a to a copy recording medium 102a. The management apparatus 105a comprises: a transmission/reception unit 701a configured to receive an original-medium identifier from the copying apparatus 104a and to transmit permission information to the copying apparatus 104a, the original-medium identifier identifying the original recording medium, and the permission information indicating permission for the copying of the information; and a control unit 708a configured to determine whether to permit the copying of the information based on the received original-medium identifier and a registered original-medium identifier that identifies a registered original recording medium, and to allow the transmission/reception unit 701a to transmit the permission information when determining to permit the copying.

Abstract: A terminal device 102 includes a transmission/reception unit 306 that transmits, to a server device 101, information necessary for judgment as to whether to permit use of content. The server device 101 includes: a judgment unit 204 that judges whether to permit the terminal device 102 to use the content, based on terminal device management information set by a content provider, and the information necessary for the judgment and received from the terminal device 102; a notification data storage unit 203 that stores notifications to be presented to a user of the terminal device 102; and a transmission/reception unit 205 that transmits either information necessary for use of the content or one of the notifications according to a result of the judgment by the judgment unit 204.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having redistribution interconnects in the WPP technology and improved reliability, wherein the redistribution interconnects have first patterns and second patterns which are electrically separated from each other within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, the first patterns electrically coupled to the multi-layer interconnects and the floating second patterns are coexistent within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, and the occupation ratio of the total of the first patterns and the second patterns within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, that is, the occupation ratio of the redistribution interconnects is 35 to 60%.

Abstract: Prior known static random access memory (SRAM) cells required that a diffusion layer be bent into a key-like shape in order to make electrical contact with a substrate with a P-type well region formed therein, which would result in a decrease in asymmetry leading to occurrence of a problem as to the difficulty in micro-patterning. To avoid this problem, the P-type well region in which an inverter making up an SRAM cell is formed is subdivided into two portions, which are disposed on the opposite sides of an N-type well region NW1 and are formed so that a diffusion layer forming a transistor has no curvature while causing the layout direction to run in a direction parallel to well boundary lines and bit lines. At intermediate locations of an array, regions for use in supply power to the substrate are formed in parallel to word lines in such a manner that one region is provided per group of thirty two memory cell rows or sixty four cell rows.

Abstract: A storage unit 601g of a recording medium device 600g stores a content and a revocation list. The revocation list includes a revocation identifier that is associated with the content and identifies a revoked public key certificate allocated to an apparatus related to use of the content. A controller 602g of the recording medium device 600g is provided with an acquisition unit 621g that acquires, from an apparatus 300g, an acquisition request for the content and an apparatus identifier identifying a public key certificate of the apparatus 300g; a judgment unit 622g that judges whether the apparatus identifier matches a revocation identifier; and a control unit 623g that controls to prohibit output of the content to the apparatus when the apparatus identifier and the revocation identifier match.

Abstract: Provided is a revocation list generation device that can suppress an increase in the amount of data of a revocation list. A revocation list generation device 500g that generates a revocation list includes an acquisition unit 501g that acquires, for a content, a revocation identifier identifying a revoked public key certificate allocated to an apparatus related to use of the content, a revocation list generation unit 502g that generates a revocation list including the acquired revocation identifier associated with the content, and an output unit 503g that outputs the revocation list.

Abstract: Prior known static random access memory (SRAM) cells required that a diffusion layer be bent into a key-like shape in order to make electrical contact with a substrate with a P-type well region formed therein, which would result in a decrease in asymmetry leading to difficulty in micro-patterning. To avoid this problem, the P-type well region in which an inverter making up an SRAM cell is formed is subdivided into two portions, which are disposed on the opposite sides of an N-type well region NW1 and are formed so that a diffusion layer forming a transistor has no curvature while causing the layout direction to run in a direction parallel to well boundary lines and bit lines. At intermediate locations of an array, regions for use in supply power to the substrate are formed in parallel to word lines.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having redistribution interconnects in the WPP technology and improved reliability, wherein the redistribution interconnects have first patterns and second patterns which are electrically separated from each other within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, the first patterns electrically coupled to the multi-layer interconnects and the floating second patterns are coexistent within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, and the occupation ratio of the total of the first patterns and the second patterns within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, that is, the occupation ratio of the redistribution interconnects is 35 to 60%.

Abstract: A content recording device includes: an input/output unit 201 that reads, from a first recording medium, content and default playback auxiliary information used to generate a default menu screen for playing back the content; a playback unit 203 that includes a first display mechanism for generating the default menu screen by using the default playback auxiliary information and displaying the generated default menu screen; a transmission/reception unit 208 that acquires, from outside, additional playback auxiliary information used to generate an additional menu screen different from the default menu screen and displayable by a second display mechanism; and a storage unit 202 that writes the content and the default playback auxiliary information into a second recording medium and further writes, via the input/output unit 201, the additional playback auxiliary information into a predetermined reading location from which a playback device including the second display mechanism reads the additional playback auxili