Abstract: An information processing method includes acquiring motion information related to motion in a space from an aspiration device, which generates an aerosol to be aspirated by a user; acquiring biometric information of the user on the basis of the motion information; performing biometric authentication on the basis of the biometric information; and controlling operation of the aspiration device on the basis of the result of the biometric authentication.

Abstract: An information processing method includes acquiring biometric information of a user; acquiring a predetermined request from the user; performing biometric authentication on the basis of the biometric information acquired before the acquisition of the predetermined request; and controlling operation of an aspiration device, which generates an aerosol to be aspirated by the user, on the basis of the result of the biometric authentication.

Abstract: An information processing method includes acquiring a predetermined request for requesting an aspiration apparatus, which generates an aerosol to be aspirated by a user, to execute a predetermined process; and determining, depending on whether or not a predetermined condition is met, whether or not to perform biometric authentication based on biometric information of the user before execution of the predetermined process.

Abstract: To provide a mechanism that allows a user to have a novel inhalation experience, terminal equipment is provided that includes a communication unit that transmits inhalation information including information showing a location where a user is inhaling using an inhalation device and receives virtual space information that defines a virtual space created on the basis of the inhalation information; and a control unit that outputs from an output unit the virtual space defined by the virtual space information received.

Abstract: In a reception step, use information which is transmitted from a user terminal in the case where a flavor suction tool is used, and indicates that the flavor suction tool is used is received. In an allocation step, on the basis of the received use information, a virtual space is allocated to the user terminal. In a transmission step, display information for displaying the virtual space is transmitted to the user terminal. In a distribution step, a message transmitted from the user terminal is distributed to another user terminal allocated to the virtual space.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that obtains smoking information from a flavor inhaler, etc., associated to a user terminal; a creation unit that creates output information for outputting a message on the basis of the smoking information, to the user terminal; and a transmission unit that sends the output information to the user terminal or a control device that controls the output of messages to the user terminal. As a result, the retention rate for users using the flavor inhaler can be increased.

Abstract: An information processing device comprising: a storage unit that stores location information regarding at least one smoking area and at least one use condition for the smoking area while associating the location information and the use condition to each other; a search unit that, in a case where a search request including location information regarding a user terminal is received, searches for a smoking area that is located within a certain range from the current location of the user terminal and that meets the use condition on a basis of the location information regarding the smoking area and at least a time at which the search request has been received, an environmental condition at the current location of the user terminal, or a use mode of a flavor inhaler; and a reporting unit that reports location information regarding the retrieved smoking area to the user terminal.

Abstract: To provide a mechanism that allows a user to have a novel inhalation experience, terminal equipment is provided that includes a communication unit that transmits inhalation information including information showing a location where a user is inhaling using an inhalation device and receives virtual space information that defines a virtual space created on the basis of the inhalation information; and a control unit that outputs from an output unit the virtual space defined by the virtual space information received.

Abstract: An electronic device generates an aerosol for aspiration. The electronic device includes an aerosol generation unit that generates an aerosol, a control unit that controls generation of the aerosol by the aerosol generation unit, a storage unit that stores a function ID for identifying the function of the electronic device, and a transmission unit that transmits the function ID to an information processing device.

Abstract: A resource management apparatus includes: a first section for monitoring, in a virtual network configured by virtualizing at least one first device that handles a control plane of the network and at least one second device that handles a user plane of the network, load statuses of the virtual first and second devices; and a second section for adjusting physical resources allocated to the virtual first and second devices, based on the load statuses of the virtual first and second devices.

Abstract: A virtual network management apparatus includes a first section for causing shared nodes on a common base of computer resources to operate as virtual nodes on the plurality of virtual networks, a second section for collecting load status(es) of the shared nodes, and a third section for instructing a change in a resource amount of at least one of the shared nodes, based on the load status(es) of the shared nodes.