Abstract: A processor searches, when the communication terminal obtains an application, whether information that includes an origin of the application is stored in the storage device. The processor sets, when the information that includes the origin is not stored, information that includes an origin used within the communication terminal in a manner such that the information that includes the origin used within the communication terminal is different from information that is stored in the storage device and includes an origin.

Abstract: An information processing method executed by a processor included in an information processing device, the information processing device including a sensor, the information processing method includes acquiring information of a location of the information processing device using the sensor; determining a distribution area with which one or more applications are associated; specifying a terminal device that communicates with the information processing device via a network; extracting one or more applications associated with the distribution area where the location of the information processing device is included; and transmitting the extracted one or more applications to the specified terminal device.

Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information processing device including a sensor and a processor, the information processing method includes acquiring, by the sensor, observation information indicating a situation; extracting, by the processor, one or more contents corresponding to the observation information from among a plurality of contents by referring to information in which an identifier identifying a situation and a content are associated with each other for each of the plurality of contents; determining one or more target contents from among the one or more contents based on priorities associated with the one or more contents; and executing a program of one of the determined one or more target contents.

Abstract: A user interface method, performed by a computer, including: identifying a window that exists in an area determined in accordance with a relative distance between a starting point and an operating point of an input operation to move an object and a direction from the starting point to the operating point, in an operation to select a window as a movement destination of the object from among a plurality of windows displayed on a plurality of displays; and displaying a movement destination candidate icon indicating the identified window.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive terminal information of each of a plurality of terminals. The terminal information includes position information indicating a position of a relevant terminal of the plurality of terminals and file information indicating files accessible from the relevant terminal. The processor is configured to compare the file information of the plurality of terminals on the basis of the terminal information. The processor is configured to determine, on the basis of a result of the comparison, a target file to be shared. The target file is a file satisfying a predetermined requirement. The processor is configured to execute a sharing process of causing the plurality of terminals to share the target file.

Abstract: A device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: calculate a number of devices which are estimated to access at a same time to an apparatus that provides a service corresponding to the event when a signal as a trigger for occurrence of an event is received, calculate a standby time from an occurrence time of the event based on the number of devices and a condition related to the service or the apparatus, and access to the apparatus after staying in standby from the occurrence time of the event until the standby time elapses.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: detecting, by a computer, an execution, by a worker, of a first task not included in a first task flow or a second task that is a task included in the first task flow and is other than a task assigned to the worker; receiving input of the first task or the second task; reflecting a change based on the first task or the second task in the first task flow; and storing difference information on a difference from the first task flow based on reflection of the change in a memory in association with the worker.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor configured to: store, in a history storage, execution information of an already-executed task which has been executed in past in a workflow; determine, based on task information indicating details of a planned task and based on one or more sets of execution information stored in the history storage, whether or not the planned task is skippable; and skip a task that has been determined to be skippable at the determining.

Abstract: A task execution support device stores information on a task processed in the past and information of a person in charge associated with the task; executes a process extracting, in response to a new task, a second task similar to the new task from the information on the task; executes a process identifying a person in charge who performed the second task from the information of a person in charge associated with the task and, calculating an evaluation value for the person in charge indicating contribution to the second task, the evaluation value being calculated based on how many times the person in charge has performed an operation of the second task and how many times the person in charge has requested the second task to another person in charge; and executes a process presenting a candidate for a person in charge, who is selected based on the evaluation value.

Abstract: An application providing method includes steps of, after registering a packaged application in which files included in an application are packaged, extracting the packaged application such that the packaged application is separated from other packaged applications for each host, converting, in accordance with an execution platform of the packaged application, the extracted content to content for a web browser, and, when an application acquisition request including a host name is received from the web browser, providing content that belongs to the host indicated by the host name included in the application acquisition request.

Abstract: A program acquisition method performed by an information processing terminal, includes calculating a degree of matching a first condition that authorizes access to a predetermined program with respect to a condition detected in relation to the information processing terminal, acquiring the predetermined program and storing the acquired predetermined program in a storage in response to the degree of matching being within a predetermined range from a first value indicating that the degree of matching satisfies the first condition, and restricting the access to the predetermined program stored in the storage until the degree of matching indicates the first value.

Abstract: An information processing device including: a processor configured to: determine a priority degree of each of a plurality of communication terminals based on service information indicative of a service utilizable by each of the plurality of the communication terminals, the more number of service utilizable by a communication terminal the higher priority degree of the communication terminal, for each communication terminal selected in descending order of the priority degree, identify at least one of a plurality of relay apparatuses capable of being utilized by the communication terminal based on the service information, select a relay apparatus to provide the service to the communication terminal from the at least one of the plurality of relay apparatus based on load information indicative of load applied to each relay apparatus.

Abstract: A task switching assisting method includes storing, by an information processing apparatus, task information regarding a task executed by a user. An element related to execution of the task is stored in correlation with the task information, an operation related to the task is determined, a work status with respect to the correlated element related to the execution of the task is determined based on the determined operation related to the task, the task is switched by saving or restoring the work status, based on the task information and the work status with respect to the correlated element related to the execution of the task, task execution resource information for executing the task and task saving resource information at a time of saving the task are analyzed on a task basis, and the task information is generated based on a result of the analysis, by the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A processor stores authentication information managed by a native environment of the communication terminal in a first storage region of the storage device. The processor stores authentication information of an application to be executed on a Web application execution environment of the communication terminal in a second storage region of the storage device. The processor performs a control to write the authentication information stored in the first storage region to the second storage region when authentication information used by the application is not stored in the second storage region and is stored in the first storage region.

Abstract: A function extension method is executed by a terminal device. The function extension method includes connecting a first plug-in, which is common to one or more peripheral devices, to an execution environment of an application for controlling the one or more peripheral devices; arranging a second plug-in, which corresponds to each of the one or more peripheral devices, to be connected to the execution environment of the application via the first plug-in; and connecting the second plug-in corresponding to another peripheral device to the execution environment of the application via the first plug-in while maintaining the connection relationship between the execution environment of the application and the first plug-in, when the another peripheral device controlled by the terminal device is to be added.

Abstract: When a place server accepts an access request from a terminal device, the place server notifies a management server of a status of the terminal device. The management server delivers a program of an application and a program of a service that is used by the application that are in accordance with the status notified from the place server. The place server sends the delivered program of the application to the terminal device. The place server provides the service due to the program of the service.

Abstract: A task execution support device, in a first task flow relating to a plurality of tasks, when receiving an execution support request of a task included in the first task flow, specifies a second task flow group relating to the first task flow based on the received support request and gets an execution status of each task flow included in the specified second task flow group. The task execution support device, based on the obtained execution status of each task flow, extracts executers who are able to respond to the support request among the executers of each task flow. Then, the task execution support device provides support information of task execution executed by the extracted executers for a support requester of the task execution.

Abstract: A scheduling supporting method includes: storing one or more sets of task information and subtask groups each of which corresponds to one set of task information and which is structured to have one or more stages, by a processor; and presenting, at time of presenting each of a plurality of tasks, from among a subtask group corresponding to each task, a subtask of a preset stage according to structure, by the processor.

Abstract: An access controlling method that causes a computer to execute processes, the processes including obtaining situation information that indicates at least one of situation of a terminal and an attribute of an owner of the terminal, determining a service corresponding to the obtained situation information among from a plurality of services having access destinations different from each other based on the obtained situation information, and when a service request has been transmitted from the terminal that has been executing an application software, transferring the service request to an access destination corresponding to the determined service, the application software having a function for transmitting a service request to a predetermined access destination.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a fine-dispersion compounding apparatus includes a closed container into which solid material is fed; a boiler configured to introduce high-pressure steam into inside of the closed container; a rotating body configured to knead the solid material with liquid medium generated from condensed high-pressure steam by rotating inside the closed container; an open port configured to set internal pressure of the closed container to atmospheric pressure level by releasing a closed state of the closed container; a conveying port configured to convey kneaded mixture of the solid material and liquid medium from inside to outside of the closed container; a mixed dispersion unit configured to disperse the conveyed kneaded mixture and compounding material; a liquid-medium ejection unit configured to eject the liquid medium contained in the kneaded mixture; and an extraction unit configured to extract a composite compound of the compounding material and the solid material.