Abstract: A process assigning device includes executing an operation including receiving an assignment request including device identification information, content and process identification information, determining whether identification of another device exists on the basis of the content identification information indicated by the received assignment request, storing the device identification information included in the assignment request in association with the content identification information and the process identification information, and the process identification information in association with the device identification information when determining that the identification of the other device does not exist.

Abstract: A node apparatus includes a second computation portion that references cache information held by the own node apparatus, the cache information indicating a node holding an object that is a search target in an overlay network in association with the object, and calculates, with respect to the object corresponding to the node indicated in the cache information, a distance between an object location and a node of interest in a logical space in which the overlay network is constructed, the object location being a logical location of the object, and the node of interest being a node other than the own node, and a transfer destination selection portion that selects a transfer destination to which the cache information is to be transferred, based on the distance calculated by the second computation portion. The cache information is transferred to the transfer destination selected by the transfer destination selection portion.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a control data request signal reception unit configured to receive a request signal for requesting transmission of control data; a control data transmission unit configured to transmit control data required by the received request signal to a communication device; a control data transmission destination recording unit configured to record device identification information used for identification of a communication device in a manner correlated with identification information for identifying this provided data; a device selecting unit configured to select device identification information recorded in the control data transmission destination recording unit in a manner correlated with identification information for identifying the provided data; and a device identification information transmission unit configured to transmit the selected device identification information to a communication device on a P2P network as device identification information used for identifica

Abstract: An apparatus including a section acquiring the information as to the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network, a section alternatively providing service to an access from the first network by using the acquired information, a section receiving and delivering the information from the first network by using the alternatively supplied service, a section changing the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network to the service providing state, when the apparatus receives the information including the contents from the first network and the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network is not in the service providing state, it is possible to change the information processor of the delivery destination to the service providing state and deliver information including the contents to the information processor of the delivery destination.

Abstract: A gateway apparatus (100) is capable of connecting to an internal network (10) and an external network (50), and includes an information management unit (120) for managing a global IP address of the gateway apparatus and identification information for a device to be permitted to connect to the internal network. The information management unit transmits the global IP address and the identification information over the external network to an external apparatus. In response to a request received over the external network, the information management unit transmits a one-time password over the external network to the external apparatus.

Abstract: The object of the present invention can be achieved by a display controlling apparatus for displaying a plurality of information objects including an information object shown by a three-dimensional shape in a three-dimensional virtual space. In the display controlling apparatus, a view to display is determined based on a shape of the information object to observe by corresponding to a view movement instruction input by a user as if the view traces a surface of the shape. And display images of the plurality of information objects linked each other are generated based on the view. Then, the display images are displayed at a display unit so as to display the information objects corresponding to the view movement instruction.

Abstract: A content processing apparatus includes an extracting part extracting undownloaded contents from a list of downloadable contents, a providing situation storage part that stores a providing situation of the contents that content processing apparatus provided to other apparatuses, a priority order determining part determining the priority order of download in the extracted undownloaded contents based on the providing situation stored in the providing situation storage part, and a downloading part downloading the contents in accordance with the priority order determined by the priority order determining part.

Abstract: To provide a technology that facilitates a Web access based on information (search keyword) in an advertisement by extracting a search keyword from an image simulating a search box of a search engine and making a search with this search keyword. Image information is acquired, the image information is analyzed, a simulated search box area corresponding to a predetermined pattern simulating a search box is specified, and a search keyword is extracted from the simulated search box area.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays a plurality of linked items of content in a virtual space in accordance with field-of-view data. The information processing apparatus includes: first capturing means (S524, S526) for capturing link description data; second capturing means (S512) for capturing content data associated with the description of an item of content contained in the captured link description data; image generating means (S530, S532) for generating an image of the item of content to be disposed in the virtual space, in accordance with the captured content data; and determining means for determining further data to be captured next in accordance with a condition contained in the captured link description data.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is, in a device control system that controls devices within a house, to reduce the effort required of a user during authentication, as well as to prevent unauthorized access by a third party. A device control system access restriction method includes the steps of accepting registration of terminal information for associating an identifier unique to an operating terminal with operating terminal access right, of accepting instruction information including operating terminal identifier and instruction signals relating to operations of a device, of determining the access right of an operating terminal based on the operating terminal identifier included in instruction information, and of controlling the device based on operating terminal access right and instruction signals relating to that device.

Abstract: An apparatus including a section acquiring the information as to the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network, a section alternatively providing service to an access from the first network by using the acquired information, a section receiving and delivering the information from the first network by using the alternatively supplied service, a section changing the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network to the service providing state, when the apparatus receives the information including the contents from the first network and the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network is not in the service providing state, it is possible to change the information processor of the delivery destination to the service providing state and deliver information including the contents to the information processor of the delivery destination.

Abstract: A plurality of video-recording devices having video-recording functions and communication functions are connected via a network. A video-recording reservation processing unit registers video-recording reservation information in a video-recording reservation management table of a storage unit and notifies the other devices and of the video-recording reservation registration via the network when a video-recording reservation is made with respect to the video-recording function thereof.

Abstract: For easier access to a desired one of information objects for displaying by traversing links between them, an information processing apparatus includes holding means which holds content type specific intermediate data generating means and content type specific display image generating means both in an executable condition. The apparatus includes first means which causes the intermediate data generating means to generate intermediate data for displaying an information object in accordance with a geometric relation of the object to a visual field. The apparatus also includes second means which causes the display image generating means to generate a display image of the object from the intermediate data in accordance with the geometric relation of the object to the field. The intermediate data generating means and the display image generating means operate asynchronously with each other.

Abstract: A configuration is presented that enables viewing a plurality of data objects situated in a virtual space as the visual field defined in the virtual space is changed smoothly; and that at the same time enables: supplemental information in connection with displayed data objects to be displayed; information in connection with displayed data objects to be displayed in more detail; means for dialogue with a user to be provided in situations where required; and application programs linked to the display of information and associated with that information to be executed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays a plurality of linked objects in a virtual three-dimensional space in accordance with field-of-view data. The information processing apparatus includes control means for generating images of the objects in accordance with the object data and in accordance with the field of view and rendering the generated images onto a two-dimensional frame. The control means hierarchically sorts the objects in accordance with link data which indicates links between the objects. The control means renders the image of one object and the image of another object to which the one object is linked, wherein the image of the other object is rendered before the start of or after the end of rendering the one object or between the start and the end of rendering.

Abstract: A search server and method for providing search results are provided in which search results can be transmitted efficiently to a client computer that uses a browser that changes plural displays of contents using a virtual three-dimensional space. The server comprises a web page information storing portion for collecting web page information and URLs from a network so as to store them, a keyword obtaining portion for obtaining a keyword from the client computer, a keyword searching portion for searching web page information containing the obtained keyword, a reference URL obtaining portion for obtaining a URL of a web page to be a reference, and a link searching portion for searching a chain of links from the web page to be a reference to the web page obtained by the keyword searching portion. The search server transmits a list of URL trains corresponding to the chain of links to the client computer.

Abstract: The object of the present invention can be achieved by a display controlling apparatus for displaying a plurality of information objects including an information object shown by a three-dimensional shape in a three-dimensional virtual space. In the display controlling apparatus, a view to display is determined based on a shape of the information object to observe by corresponding to a view movement instruction input by a user as if the view traces a surface of the shape. And display images of the plurality of information objects linked each other are generated based on the view. Then, the display images are displayed at a display unit so as to display the information objects corresponding to the view movement instruction.

Abstract: A gateway apparatus has a first IP address for the first network and a second IP address for the second network. The gateway apparatus includes: an information provision unit for receiving, from a second apparatus having a third IP address over the first network, a first IP packet representative of a search request for information resources; and a search unit for transmitting over the second network a second IP packet representative of a search request for information resources which packet contains the second IP address as a source address and for receiving a third IP packet which contains a first information resource identifier representative of an information resource available with a third apparatus on the second network. The first information resource identifier contains a fourth IP address for the third apparatus.

Abstract: A gateway apparatus (100) is capable of connecting to an internal network (10) and an external network (50), and includes an information management unit (120) for managing a global IP address of the gateway apparatus and identification information for a device to be permitted to connect to the internal network. The information management unit transmits the global IP address and the identification information over the external network to an external apparatus. In response to a request received over the external network, the information management unit transmits a one-time password over the external network to the external apparatus.

Abstract: An advertisement distribution system is provided, by which advertisements with contents that a user demands can be distributed while assuring security concerning user information. According to the advertisement distribution system, in a network environment including an Internet connection device that establishes relay and connection between a LAN environment and an Internet environment, the Internet connection device allows to receive and store information concerning a user of a user device connected over the LAN environment; to compare received attribute information of advertisement contents data with the stored user information so as to sort out the advertisement contents data; to receive and store the advertisement contents data that are to be distributed from a distribution device used by an advertisement contents distributor; and to distribute the advertisement contents data in response to a request.