Abstract: A procedure includes: receiving a request to monitor a target monitored item of the computer from a first information processing apparatus; inquiring the first information processing apparatus for a first monitoring condition; and determining a second information processing apparatus by referring to monitoring information. The monitoring information includes information indicating a specific monitored item and a monitoring condition for monitoring the specific monitored item in association with an identifier for identifying an information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A method of distributing distribution files from a master server possessing the distribution files to servers is disclosed. The method includes generating a distribution scheme having a hierarchical structure, the tree structure including nodes and having the master server in a top node, wherein a distribution file group including the distribution files is to be allocated to each node, and a subordinate node is to include a subset of a distribution file group allocated to a superior node, which is located a level superior to the subordinate node; allocating the servers to each node, based on system status information indicating a status of the master server and/or the servers; distributing at least one distribution file to each server, based on the distribution scheme; and exchanging directly among servers corresponding to each nodes, not possessed by the servers corresponding to the respective nodes.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for selecting characters through touchscreen input are provided. A user selection of a first character, such as a Japanese kana character, displayed on a touchscreen is received. A plurality of additional characters syllabically related to the first character are identified. A presentation order of the plurality of additional characters is identified. In response to receiving the user selection of the first character, at least a first and a second additional character from the plurality of syllabically related additional characters are displayed. The first additional character is displayed adjacent to the first character, and the second additional character is displayed adjacent to the first additional character. The displayed first and second additional characters are selectable by a user touch input.

Abstract: An integrated symbols user interface (UI) provides a collection of different symbols for inputting symbols into messages, such as email message, IM messages, and SMS text messages. The integrated symbols UI may group symbols in a number of different category panes. Additionally, the integrated symbols UI may provide a history pane with previously used symbols. Only a portion of the integrated symbols UI may be displayed on a display screen of device at a time. A user may seamlessly pan over the integrated symbols UI to move between the panes. In some embodiments, the integrated symbols UI may also include a category list pane that allows a user to navigate directly to a particular category pane or the history pane.

Abstract: A method for a computer, which is configured to access to hierarchical information indicating a hierarchical structure relating to processes executed by devices included in a network, includes receiving abnormal observation data from the network, detecting a transmission source device of the abnormal observation data and a process by which the abnormal observation data is issued, specifying a process relating, to the detected process in accordance with a kind of the detected transmission source device by referring to the hierarchical information, determining, by the computer, a failure occurrence point based on a status of the specified process.

Abstract: A monitoring device accesses a database storing, for each of a plurality of failure cases that occurred in a monitored device, a group of past monitoring data items each representing respective measured values of monitoring items of the monitored device measured until a time of occurrence of a failure case. The device receives, from the monitored device, a current monitoring data item representing current measured values of the plurality of monitoring items. The device calculates, for each of past monitoring data items stored in the database, a similarity degree between a past monitoring data item and a current monitoring data item on the basis of the respective measured values of the plurality of monitoring items. The device determines, among the plurality of failure cases, a failure case predicted to occur in the monitored device, on the basis of the calculation result. The device outputs the determination result.

Abstract: An information processing device capable of communicating with a plurality of servers installed within a facility and method are provided. A storage unit stores server information including an installation position and a temperature of each of said servers within said facility. A detection unit detects a group of not-yet-powered-on servers from said plurality of servers. A calculation unit calculates an index value indicating a correlation of heat generation amounts between said not-yet-powered-on server and powered-on servers, based on the server information stored in said storage unit for each detected not-yet-powered-on server. A decision unit decides a server which becomes a power-on target, from said group of the not-yet-powered-on servers, based on the calculated index value of each not-yet-powered-on server. An output unit outputs a decision result which has been decided.

Abstract: A hierarchical address book for an organization is implemented where employees are represented by user objects and departments are represented by department objects. Computer-readable media include executable instructions for displaying and navigating the hierarchical address book. Computer-readable media also include executable instructions for ordering a list of recipients of an electronic mail message as a function of the seniority rating of an object in the hierarchical address book.

Abstract: [Subject] It is to provide a clustering system, the processing speed of which is high and which can perform clustering with high accuracy and to provide an image processing system having the clustering system. [Means to Attain the Subject] A clustering system for classifying elements into clusters a plurality of times includes judging device. The judging device judges whether a cluster into which each element is classified is definite or indefinite at a predetermined timing between the classifications. After the predetermined timing, only the elements in the cluster judged as being indefinite by the judging device are classified. It is preferable that the classification before the predetermined timing is performed by the C-Means method and that the classification after the predetermined timing is performed by the FCM. An image processing system has the clustering system as a part of its functions and segments an image into regions by using the information on the clustered pixels.

Abstract: A physical machine executes a job on a virtual machine operated on the physical machine. A management apparatus manages execution of the job and a state of a computation resource of the physical machine. The management apparatus has a job execution request inputting unit for inputting or re-inputting into the physical machine a request for execution of the job without using an OS (Operating System) of the physical machine. The physical machine has a job inputting unit for inputting or re-inputting into the virtual machine the job in response to the request for execution of the job input or re-input into the physical machine by the job execution request inputting unit.

Abstract: A user of a client computer submits a directory request to a server executing a server email application. The server email application is responsive to the directory request to identify a custom directory containing contact data for one or more individuals. The server email application determines whether to transfer a written form of the contact data, or whether to transfer both written and phonetic forms of the contact data to the client computer. The server email application indexes the contact data, prior to transfer, based on the written form when only the written form of contact data is being transferred to the client computer, and indexes the contact data based on both the phonetic and written forms when the written and phonetic forms of the contact data are both being transferred to the client computer.

Abstract: A decentralized processing apparatus comprising: an executing unit to execute processing of an assigned first job; a receiving unit to receive a request for transferring a processing result of the first job, which is obtained by executing the processing of the assigned first job; a specifying unit to specify, based on the transfer request received by the receiving unit, an agent which is an assignment target of a second job to be processed by using the processing result of the first job; and a transmitting unit to transmit the processing result of the first job to the agent specified by the specifying unit.

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for controlling of a distributed processing system comprising a management computer for managing distributed processing of a job program and a plurality of execution computers for executing a plurality of jobs, comprising: dividing a request of processing of the job program into a plurality of jobs by the management computer; assigning said jobs from said management computer to said execution computers; transferring processed information obtained by executing said jobs by said execution computers to said management computer; storing said processed information into said execution computer; and resuming dividing a request of processing of the job program and assigning the jobs to said execution computers by management computer, wherein assignment of the jobs is arranged such that at least one of the jobs for which the processed information stored is available is omitted from assignment.

Abstract: This job allocation method for allocating jobs to each computer that processes the job without intensively managing a load state of each computer includes: identifying computers having a configuration necessary for a processing of a generated job by using a profile management data storage storing data of a configuration of each computer; identifying a job allocation mode according to a current job generation state by using an allocation mode data storage storing data concerning an allocation mode of computers to the jobs in association with the job generation state; transmitting a job generation notification to at least one of the identified computers according to the identified job allocation mode; and when a job acquisition refusal notification is received in response to the job generation notification, resending a job generation notification to a computer having a configuration necessary for the generated job.

Abstract: A user of a client computer submits a directory request to a server executing a server email application. The server email application is responsive to the directory request to identify a custom directory containing contact data for one or more individuals. The server email application determines whether to transfer a written form of the contact data, or whether to transfer both written and phonetic forms of the contact data to the client computer. The server email application indexes the contact data, prior to transfer, based on the written form when only the written form of contact data is being transferred to the client computer, and indexes the contact data based on both the phonetic and written forms when the written and phonetic forms of the contact data are both being transferred to the client computer.

Abstract: A relevant-information retrieval system manages a model which describes a relevancy among a plurality of databases in accordance with associative values or a tree structure. Besides, when the retrieval system has received a search request for a certain database from a searcher, it specifies one of the databases administering information relevant to the certain database, in accordance with the model, and it presents information of the specified database to the searcher.