Abstract: According to the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes: a first storage module; a second storage module; a first acquiring module configured to acquire data from the first storage module when a failure occurs; a determination module configured to determine whether the data acquired by the first acquiring module includes system data having a possibility of changing system operation; and a first copying module configured to copy the data to the second storage device with a destination information, wherein, when the determination module determines that the data does not include the system data, a previous location of the data before occurrence of the failure is set as the destination information, and wherein, when the determination module determines that the data includes the system data, a certain location in the first storage module is set as the destination information.

Abstract: An incoming call notification is performed based on a caller number extracted from a call-in signal and a user status stored in a user status storage unit, and thereby, the incoming call is notified adequately in accordance with the user status and a caller. For example, the contents of the incoming call notification is changed in accordance with a busyness of a user or an importance of the caller, and thereby, a flexible response by the user becomes possible.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a client computer of an electronic conference system comprises a unit which determines whether or not the client computer is equipped with the image pickup device, a unit which notifying a server computer of the electronic conference system of the determination, a unit which receives the member list information from the server computer, and a unit which displays the plurality of client computers in list form so as to make it possible to determine whether or not each of the client computers is equipped with the image pickup device, based on the member list information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video conference system comprises a server and a plurality of client terminals. Each of the client terminals includes a selection unit configured to select the layout information stored in the storage unit of the server, a display unit which displays the synthesized image received from the server, a change unit configured to change a layout of the synthesized image displayed on the display unit, an image inputting and transmitting unit which inputs an image and transmits the image to the server, and a transmission unit configured to, if the layout information is selected by the selection unit and if the layout information is changed by the change unit, transmit the layout information to the server.

Abstract: According to one embodiment an information processing apparatus includes a display unit, a discriminator discriminating, if a window of a screen of the display unit displaying moving picture information transmitted from a terminal is overlapped by the other window, whether or not there is a viewable area in the window displaying the moving picture information, and a transmitter transmitting to the terminal an instruction signal to order transmitting moving picture information corresponding to the other area of the window displaying the moving picture information except an area where the window displaying the moving picture information and the other window overlap, if it is discriminated by the discriminator that there is a viewable area in the window displaying the moving picture information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals are connected to a communication network and a server apparatus which are connected to the communication network, the server apparatus includes a first renewing unit to renew the network configuration information in the second management table and a first transmitter which reads out the network configuration information stored in the second management table in response to an acquisition request for the network configuration information to transmit the corresponding network configuration information to a communication terminal of a request origin, and the plurality of the communication terminals include a second transmitter which transmits the acquisition request for the network configuration information to the server apparatus, and a second renewing unit to renew the network configuration information stored in the first management table based on the network configuration information in response to the transmiss

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising a display unit which displays, on a display screen, a first display area displaying a first buttons and a second display area displaying a second buttons, a sensing unit which senses a touched position on the display screen, and a first display control unit which, when the first display area is touched, enlarging the size of each of the first buttons, expanding the size of the first display area such that the first buttons are arranged in the first display area, reducing the size of the second display area, and reducing the size of each of at least specific buttons of the second buttons such that the specific buttons are arranged in the reduced second display area.

Abstract: Two between-ring connection node devices are placed between ring networks A and B, these are connected by between-ring transmission lines for which it is possible for each of the items that face each other to switch between current use lines and spare lines, and for each ring network, the two between-ring connection node devices are operated to switch between being a current use system or a spare system. While being able to avoid communication interruptions between ring networks due to faults of the between-ring connection node device itself, it is also possible to avoid communication interruption when line switching fails between-ring transmission lines, and thus to increase fault resistance.