Abstract: An advertisement guidance system includes: an advertisement database in which plural pieces of advertisement information are so stored that guidance information on each advertisement, feature information on the advertisement, and user target information are associated with one another; an extraction unit which extracts, from the advertisement database, advertisement information having user target information that matches an attribute of a user; an advertisement information storage unit which stores the advertisement information extracted by the extraction unit; a specification unit which specifies advertisement information having feature information on an advertisement contained in viewed content from the advertisement information stored in the advertisement information storage unit; and a display control unit which displays, on a display unit, guidance information on the advertisement included in the specified advertisement information.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus for selecting an advertisement high in user click-through rate based on the content of the advertisement.

Abstract: At the time of input of authentication information, even when the hand and the input screen are seen from the third person, guess of authentication information is made difficult. A plurality of keys serving as input means are divided into a first region and a second region. Then, the first region and the second region are caused to transit between a first state and a second state distinguished from each other depending on the displayed contents. When a region where a key to be inputted for the input of authentication information is arranged is in the second state, input to the above-mentioned plurality of keys is recognized as dummy.

Abstract: A terminal device and a device program having a high degree of convenience that are capable of selectively displaying a list of content information interesting to a user and do not need to allow an external server to acquire the degree of interest for the content information. The terminal device acquires distribution information of a predetermined kind for content information through a network, estimates a degree of interest of a user using the terminal device for the content information based on an operation content for the content information, and selects content information that is a display target from new content information corresponding to the distribution information acquired based on at least the degree of interest for the content information of the past that is estimated.

Abstract: An information processing device is configure so as to store an image that is to be retained in a main memory so that a processor can execute an application program, and after execution of the application program is terminated, execute the application program from a state at a time when the image is stored by reading out the stored image to the main memory.

Abstract: At the time of input of authentication information, even when the hand and the input screen are seen from the third person, guess of authentication information is made difficult. A plurality of keys serving as input means are divided into a first region and a second region. Then, the first region and the second region are caused to transit between a first state and a second state distinguished from each other depending on the displayed contents. When a region where a key to be inputted for the input of authentication information is arranged is in the second state, input to the above-mentioned plurality of keys is recognized as dummy.

Abstract: Provided is a file access destination control device capable of storing only a file requiring confidentiality in a server and storing a file not requiring confidentiality in a client. A file access destination control device includes: means for setting an access destination with respect to a file accessed by a program whose name is listed in a white list to the client-side storage device; means for setting the access destination with respect to a file accessed by a program whose name is listed in a redirect list to the server-side storage device; means for prohibiting a program whose name is listed neither in the white list nor redirect list from performing writing operation to a file; and means for setting the readout destination with respect to a file accessed by a program whose name is listed neither in the white list nor redirect list to the client-side storage device.

Abstract: Provided is a file access destination control device capable of storing only a file requiring confidentiality in a server and storing a file not requiring confidentiality in a client. A file access destination control device includes: means for setting an access destination with respect to a file accessed by a program whose name is listed in a white list to the client-side storage device; means for setting the access destination with respect to a file accessed by a program whose name is listed in a redirect list to the server-side storage device; means for prohibiting a program whose name is listed neither in the white list nor redirect list from performing writing operation to a file; and means for setting the readout destination with respect to a file accessed by a program whose name is listed neither in the white list nor redirect list to the client-side storage device.

Abstract: An information processing device is configure so as to store an image that is to be retained in a main memory so that a processor can execute an application program, and after execution of the application program is terminated, execute the application program from a state at a time when the image is stored by reading out the stored image to the main memory.

Abstract: An information processing terminal is capable of switching between a thin client mode in which a screen generated by executing an application program in a remote server is received from the remote server and displayed in a display unit, and a local mode in which a screen generated by executing an operation of the application program is displayed in the display unit. The information processing terminal is configured such that the execution of the application program in the local mode is started from the execution state of the application program at a certain time point in the thin client mode.

Abstract: A file control system according to the present invention includes a host device and an information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network, the host device including: a comparator that compares first file information stored in a first storage unit of the information processing device with second file information stored in a second storage unit of the host device, and extracts differential information; and a transmitter that transmits the differential information to the information processing device, and the information processing device including: a receiver that receives the differential information; and a generator that generates index information on a file that is stored in the second storage unit and not stored in the first storage unit based on the received differential information.

Abstract: In a password authenticating apparatus, a control section displays an image of a keyboard including multiple character keys on a display section. An input section sends input data to the control section on reception of an input of a position on a display screen. In connection with the displayed keyboard, the control section specifies a character corresponding to the input position as an input character, checks the input character against a character that forms a registered password, determines whether the input character is correct, and holds a determination result. Then, after the input character is determined, a display is changed to an image of the keyboard for receiving a next character input. Then, in connection with all characters that form the password, authentication is determined as being OK when all held determination results are correct.

Abstract: A broadcasting service system and a delay broadcasting method in broadcasting service using the broadcasting service system, any of audiovisual systems is connected to a broadcasting set when any audiovisual system request a repeater station to view program contents broadcasted by a broadcast station, and advertisement contents stored in a advertisement contents storage are broadcasted to the audiovisual systems connected to the broadcasting set. An advertisement effect measurer measures an advertisement effect on the basis of a number of the connected audiovisual systems viewing the advertisement contents and a broadcasting time of the advertisement contents and allows the broadcasting set to start of the broadcasting of the program contents to the connected audiovisual systems only when the measured advertisement effect meets a predetermined target advertisement effect.

Abstract: A mail transfer device for relaying an electronic mail transmitted from a transmission terminal through a communication line and transferring the electronic mail thus relayed to a reception terminal is equipped with devices for converting to another address the electronic mail address of the transmission source of the mail which is transmitted from the transmission terminal though the communication line and then transferring the electronic mail to the reception terminal; and devices for converting the address of the transmission destination of a reply mail to the address of the transmission source before the address conversion and then transferring the replay mail to the transmission terminal when the reply mail to the electronic mail is transmitted from the reception terminal.

Abstract: In a password authenticating apparatus, a control section displays an image of a keyboard including multiple character keys on a display section. An input section sends input data to the control section on reception of an input of a position on a display screen. In connection with the displayed keyboard, the control section specifies a character corresponding to the input position as an input character, checks the input character against a character that forms a registered password, determines whether the input character is correct, and holds a determination result. Then, after the input character is determined, a display is changed to an image of the keyboard for receiving a next character input. Then, in connection with all characters that form the password, authentication is determined as being OK when all held determination results are correct.

Abstract: A failure factor extracting element of a server computer extracts particulars of failure and factors accountable for the failure from a client failed execution environment information database; a client identifying element identifies from a client configuration information database a client computer(s) that may repeat the extract failure factor; a failure prediction information transmitting element transmits to the identified client(s) failure prediction information; a failure prediction information receiving element of the client receives failure prediction information from the server; a failure prediction information storing element stores the failure prediction information into a database; a failure factor checking element checks whether the execution environment of the currently operating client to which it belongs involves any failure factor stored in the failure prediction information database; and a notifying element supplies failure prediction information to an output unit if the failure factor checki

Abstract: A mail transfer device 2 for relaying an electronic mail transmitted from a transmission terminal 1 through a communication line 5 and transferring the electronic mail thus relayed to a reception terminal 3 is equipped with means 21, 22, 27, 28 for converting to another address the electronic mail address of the transmission source of the mail which is transmitted from the transmission terminal 1 through the communication line 5 and then transferring the electronic mail to the reception terminal 3; and means 24, 25, 29, 30 for converting the address of the transmission destination of a reply mail to the address of the transmission source before the address conversion and then transferring the reply mail to the transmission terminal 1 when the reply mail to the electronic mail is transmitted from the reception terminal 3.

Abstract: If a determining element 101 determines, according to signals issued by sensors 20 to 2n, that a data processing apparatus 10 has been taken out, an alarm element 105 issues an alarm. A power supply password requestor 103 causes, if the determining element 101 determines at the time of turning on the power supply to the data processing apparatus 10 that the data processing apparatus 10 has been taken out, a password to be entered and, if the entered password is found illegitimate, effects control so as not to start up the data processing apparatus 10.

Abstract: A broadcasting service system and a delay broadcasting method in broadcasting service using the broadcasting service system, any of audiovisual systems is connected to a broadcasting set when any audiovisual system request a repeater station to view program contents broadcasted by a broadcast station, and advertisement contents stored in a advertisement contents storage are broadcasted to the audiovisual systems connected to the broadcasting set. An advertisement effect measurer measures an advertisement effect on the basis of a number of the connected audiovisual systems viewing the advertisement contents and a broadcasting time of the advertisement contents and allows the broadcasting set to start of the broadcasting of the program contents to the connected audiovisual systems only when the measured advertisement effect meets a predetermined target advertisement effect.

Abstract: An article layout device which comprises an article data input section, a column shape data generation section to divide the article space into a plurality of columns, a column layout order generation section to provide the generated columns with the layout orders, an article layout order generation section to provide the article data with the layout orders, a layout source data synthesis section to newly synthesize the division result of the article space, the column layout order and the article data layout order, an allocation section to allocate the article data to the columns according to the column layout order and the article data layout order, a layout result evaluation section to evaluate the layout results by the allocation section, an optimum layout result retrieval section to detect the layout result according to the evaluation result by the layout result evaluation section and an article output section to lay out and output the article data on the article space according to the layout result detec