Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method configured to display content in a content display screen area, which is at least one of a plurality of screen areas, displayed. The information processing apparatus includes an event detector configured to detect generation of a predetermined event concerning a content, a notifying unit configured to notify a user of the information processing apparatus of the detection of the predetermined event upon detecting the predetermined event, a work concentration state detector configured to determine whether the user is in a work concentration state, and an inhibiting unit configured to inhibit the notifying unit from notifying the user of the detection of the predetermined event upon determining the work concentration state of the user.

Abstract: There is provided a preference data generation device for generating preference data of a viewer pertinent to content to be displayed in a content display screen area that is one of a plurality of screen areas displayed on a display unit in an information processing system apparatus provided with the display unit, the device including a state information acquisition unit that acquires state information pertinent to the plurality of screen areas displayed on the display unit; a preference evaluation value calculation unit that calculates a preference evaluation value pertinent to the content, based on the state information acquired by the state information acquisition unit; and a preference data generation unit that generates preference data pertinent to the content, based on the preference evaluation value calculated by the preference evaluation value calculation unit.

Abstract: A processing method of an information processor for connecting an external device with a main body of the information processor. The processing method also performs processing of an application program with respect to the external device. The processing method includes connecting the external device to the main body. The processing method also includes determining whether the connected external device has been previously connected with the main body of the information processor.

Abstract: A startup method of a computer which sequentially reads an OS, drivers, and applications stored in an external storage device and deploys them in a memory in a startup is provided. In a first startup, the contents of the memory at the point when the drivers are read and deployed in the memory subsequent to the OS are saved as a system file in the external storage device. In a startup after the system file is saved in the external storage device, after the system file is read from the external storage device and deployed in the memory, the applications are read and collectively deployed in the memory, so as to perform a high-speed startup.

Abstract: A security management apparatus, a security management method and a security management program are provided which are capable of performing access control to files, folders, etc., according to a current position of a prescribed device such as a portable terminal to be managed, In order to perform security control on a portable terminal, etc., security levels of the portable terminal are stored in advance in a predetermined table in association with the positions of the portable terminal. The current position of the portable terminal is detected by means of a GPS or the like, and a security level corresponding to the current position of the portable terminal detected is acquired from the predetermined table, so that booting of programs and/or access control to files, folders, etc., in the portable terminal are carried out based on the security level thus acquired.

Abstract: According to the present invention, when an application program on a personal computer executes processing by connecting an external device such as at CD drive, the application program is started and thereafter it is determined whether the external device associated with the application program is fitted with or not. When the external device is not fitted with, the processing is interrupted, and when a fitting of the external device is recognized, the interrupted processing is restarted.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting section for setting a sum total of a usable time of at least one specific function under a predetermined condition, and a restricting section for restricting use of the specific function if a used time of the specific function exceeds the sum total of usable time of the specific function.