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 device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, determining, when an execution of one of a first application and a second application is requested, an execution state of the other of the first application and the second application; and limiting a function of the requested application based on the execution state of the other application.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to transmit an application to a terminal apparatus in accordance with information regarding a status, the information including at least one of location information of the terminal apparatus and time information, permit the terminal apparatus to execute a plurality of functions of the application, the plurality of functions including a first function and a second function when the status identified by the information regarding the status matches a first condition that specifies at least one of and a first location range a first time range, and permit the terminal apparatus to execute the first function and prohibit the terminal apparatus to execute the second function, when the status identified by the information regarding the status does not match the first condition and matches a second condition that specifies a second time range or a second location range.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first virtual machine part to operate by being allocated to another information processing apparatus; a monitoring-application information storing part to store an application for monitoring the operation of the virtual machine part; a determining part to determine, in the virtual machine part, whether the application stored in the monitoring-application information storing part is operating by accessing an auxiliary storage device connected to the other information processing apparatus; a status storing part to store application information related to an operating status of the application when the determining part determines that the application is operating; an application exiting part to exit the application when the application information is stored; and a transmitting part to transmit virtual-machine information related to an operating status of the virtual machine part, together with the stored application information, to the other information processing

Abstract: A cooperation method executed by a computer, the cooperation method includes: extracting, based on a first application that is executed, kind of data being processed by the first application, and history information, at least one second application that was executed next to the first application before; executing processing the data using the at least one second application; evaluating a result of the processing by the at least one second application; and suggesting a second application, among the at least one second application, based on a result of the evaluating.

Abstract: An allocating method is executed by a computer. The allocating method includes transmitting to any one given apparatus among multiple apparatuses capable of executing an identical process and respectively having a different processing performance, a command for the process; duplicating the command and transmitting resulting duplicated commands to an apparatus group that is not executing the process and among the apparatuses; measuring for the given apparatus and each apparatus of the apparatus group, a utilization rate acquired when the command is executed; identifying based on the utilization rate for the given apparatus, an apparatus to be switched among the apparatus group; and switching a transmission destination of the command, from the given apparatus to the apparatus to be switched.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor configured to predict an in-use situation of a communication terminal at a time of use of an application executed on the communication terminal, and prepare adjusted content of at least a portion of the application based on an in-use situation of the communication terminal as predicted by the circuitry.

Abstract: A server equipment forwards received audio data to multiple terminal equipments; judges good or bad of a communication status between the respective terminal equipments; and transmits communication status data indicating good or bad of the communication status to each of the multiple terminal equipments, while a terminal equipment reproduces voice represented by transferred audio data in real-time; receives communication status data transmitted from the server equipment; and notifies a user whether a communication status indicated by the communication status data is good or bad.

Abstract: A duplicator duplicates a specified guest program to create a guest copy. A virtual machine activation requester selects a center apparatus for maintenance and requests the selected center apparatus for maintenance to activate a virtual machine based on the guest copy. A maintenance requester requests the activated virtual machine to perform a maintenance process. After the maintenance process, when the guest copy has been changed, a maintenance reflector replaces with the guest copy the guest program, among data stored in a guest program storage, associated with a specified program ID.

Abstract: A multilayer-type optical recording medium having a translucent recording/reproducing functional layer containing a first protective layer, a second protective layer, a recording layer, a third protective layer, a reflective layer and a fourth protective layer in this order relative to incident laser light. The second protective layer and the fourth protective layer are made of the same kind of material. The refractive index of the second protective layer is higher by at least 0.3 than the refractive index of the first protective layer. When the film thickness of the second protective layer is set as D2, the film thickness of the fourth protective layer is set as D4, and the reflectivity before recording when the laser light is focused on the recording layer is set as R, the derivatives d(R)/d(D2) and d(R)/d(D4) have opposite signs from each other.

Abstract: A reception-process manager of a call server writes, in a transfer-voice-data storage, voice data contained in a voice packet received from the transmitter terminal which has acquired the talk right. A transmission-process manager of the call server determines the next transmission interval of a voice packet for each receiver terminal on the basis of determination information received from the each receiver terminal. The transmission-process manager reads out the voice data in a size dependent on the determined transmission interval from the transfer-voice-data storage, generates voice packet containing the voice data for the each receiver terminal, and transmits the voice packet to the each receiver terminal. Thus, the voice-packet transmission interval can be changed for each receiver terminal without stopping voice-packet transmission.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a connection monitoring unit performs determining whether a first external device is connected, and determining whether a receiving unit receives the request from the first or second external device, wherein when the connection monitoring unit determines that the first external device is not connected, a usage permission/prohibition determining unit updates the usage permission/prohibition information stored in a management table so that the usage permission/prohibition information indicates that use of a first virtual computer is prohibited, and wherein when the connection monitoring unit determines that the receiving unit receives the request from the second external device and that the first external device is connected, the usage permission/prohibition determining unit transmits, to the first external device, information that instructs the first external device to prohibit use of a second virtual computer.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to relieve the burden on a watcher that uses a presence system to subscribe to the presence information of people and objects. For example, an attribute is a product name, and products A, B, C have the identical attribute value “DVDRecorder.” The server generates aggregate presence information, which includes the presence information of the products A, B, C (corresponds to the providers), and sends a notification of such to a watcher W (corresponds to the notification recipient) of the presence information of the products A, B, C. The watcher W collectively receives the presence information for every product name, and the watcher W is therefore relieved of the burden of classifying the presence information for every product name.

Abstract: An information processing device which has a plurality of process units for performing various kinds of processes includes a detecting unit that detects a processing loads of the process units; a determining unit that determines whether a total amount of the processing loads detected by the detecting unit is equal to or larger than a specific value; a designating unit that designates a process unit having a process state to be controlled, based on the processing loads of the process units detected by the detecting unit, when the determining unit determines that the total amount is equal to or larger than the specific value; a process identifying unit that identifies a process having an execution state to be controlled among processes being performed by the process unit designated by the designating unit; and a control unit that controls the execution state of the process identified by the process identifying unit.

Abstract: A file synchronization method includes determining whether a terminal apparatus is capable of receiving a file in response to a synchronization request for the file, and converting the file into a format usable by the terminal apparatus, when that the terminal apparatus is capable of receiving the file is determined by the determining.

Abstract: An allocating method is executed by a computer. The allocating method includes transmitting to any one given apparatus among multiple apparatuses capable of executing an identical process and respectively having a different processing performance, a command for the process; duplicating the command and transmitting resulting duplicated commands to an apparatus group that is not executing the process and among the apparatuses; measuring for the given apparatus and each apparatus of the apparatus group, a utilization rate acquired when the command is executed; identifying based on the utilization rate for the given apparatus, an apparatus to be switched among the apparatus group; and switching a transmission destination of the command, from the given apparatus to the apparatus to be switched.

Abstract: A communicating system includes: a plurality of communicating system terminal including a communication unit that transmits and receives audio or video data and a reproducing unit that reproduces the data received by the communication unit; and a server including an administering unit that administers the plurality of communicating terminals as a communication group, an approving unit that approves the transmission of the data by one of the communicating terminals of the communication group, a receiving unit that receives the data transmitted by the one of the communicating terminals, and a transmitting unit that transmits the data received by the receiving unit to the other communicating terminals of the communication group.

Abstract: A multilayer-type optical recording medium having a translucent recording/reproducing functional layer containing a first protective layer, a second protective layer, a recording layer, a third protective layer, a reflective layer and a fourth protective layer in this order relative to incident laser light. The second protective layer and the fourth protective layer are made of the same kind of material. The refractive index of the second protective layer is higher by at least 0.3 than the refractive index of the first protective layer. When the film thickness of the second protective layer is set as D2, the film thickness of the fourth protective layer is set as D4, and the reflectivity before recording when the laser light is focused on the recording layer is set as R, the derivatives d(R)/d(D2) and d(R)/d(D4) have opposite signs from each other.

Abstract: In a presence system in which one user users a plurality of terminals, dynamically changing buddy lists are synchronized between the terminals. A presence notification message is sent to all the terminals of the user. The timing of sending includes, for example, when the presence information of a buddy is updated, when a new buddy is set, when display attribute information is updated, when a buddy is cancelled, and when a presence notification of unknown presentity is made. Thus, when one user uses a plurality of terminals in the presence system, dynamically changing buddy lists can be synchronized between the terminals. In addition, the display formats of the buddy lists do not differ from one terminal to another, and the same display format is attained.

Abstract: When the activation of an output device is detected, the response prompt screen on which a response by an input device is requested is displayed on the activated output device, and when a response from the input device is received through the displayed response prompt screen, the input device which has returned a response is associated with the output device whose response prompt screen is displayed.