Abstract: A work flow management method is executed by a system including a person-in-charge terminal, and a management device, wherein the person-in-charge terminal receives n input of information containing a value requested for decision through an operation by a person in charge, transmits the input information as application information to the management device, and receives result information of an examination about the application information from the management device, and the management device notifies a decider of the application information received from the person-in-charge terminal, receives an input of the result information containing a range in which at least the application information can take a value when approving the application information through the operation of the decider; and transmits the result information to the person-in-charge terminal.

Abstract: A first server for providing a service site that provides a user, who operates a user terminal, with a given service, generates a unique identifier when a service provided to a certain user satisfies a given condition, generates a network address with the first server set as a destination and with the identifier, registers information indicating that an authority is valid in association with the identifier in a storage device, and notifies the user of the network address. The network address represents an authority for enabling the user to receive granting of a given privilege from a campaign site provided on a second server.

Abstract: A server having a dynamic Web page creating function has a storing unit that receives a description language file in which a special keyword for converting a Web page component is embedded from a first device. The storing unit stores the description language file in a storage unit. A detecting unit detects the special keyword in the stored description language file by syntax analysis when a Web page browsing request is submitted from a second device. A converting unit converts the detected special keyword into a character string according to a predetermined rule. A generating unit generates a description language file including the converted character string to be transmitted back to the second device.

Abstract: Included are a customer information storage unit 14 stored with accumulated point count data, a commercial information storage unit 15 stored with commercial article data and price data, an extracting condition storage unit 16 stored with extracting condition data, a date acquiring unit 9 acquiring date data, a price zone searching unit 10 searching for commercial article price zone data matching with the accumulated point count data if the date data and an invalidation date of benefit points come to a predetermined relationship, a recommended commercial article searching unit 11 searching for the commercial article data matching with the price zone of the commercial article, a commercial article announcement generating unit 12 generating an announcement of the commercial article, which describes contents of the retrieved commercial article data, and a commercial article announcement providing unit 13 providing the announcement of the commercial article to the customers.

Abstract: An information processing device 1 comprising an input/output unit 7, a user information storage unit 13 stored with identifying information, information on a profile and information on a course participation history of a course, a Website 9 organized by a plurality of Web pages in different categories, a course information storage unit 15 stored on information on the course, a course distributing unit 10 transmitting text data of contents of the course, a course information storage unit 15 recorded with contents of the transmitted utilizing information, an analyzing unit 11 extracting the course along with the favorite of the user, and an announcement distributing unit 12 transmitting an announcement of the extracted course.

Abstract: Included are a browse determining unit 9 determining whether or not a user to whom an electronic mail is addressed browses information of the delivered electronic mail by referring to a user information storage unit 6 stored with at least an electronic mail address of the user in information about the registered user, and a Web page providing unit 10 receiving an access from the user determined by the browse determining unit 9 not to have browsed the information of the electronic mail, and providing a Web page containing the information of the electronic mail to the user.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information decision apparatus including the following parts: A target transactor finding part finds target transactors in accordance with promoting product information so as to focus only on potential transactors who may be interested in buying the promoting product; A transaction tendencies analyzing part analyzes transactor's tendencies based on a transactor's purchasing history for each of the target transactors so as to examine purchasing trends of the target transactors; An information decision part decides on appropriate information that fits the transactor's tendencies analyzed by the transaction tendencies analyzing part so as to produce an attractive information corresponding to each target transactor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a document issuance system capable of making efficient a receipt-and-invoice issuance management operation for an ordered merchandise. The document issuance system comprises an accepting unit accepting an issuance request related to at least one document of a receipt and an invoice inputted from a terminal, a retaining unit retaining information about the issuance request accepted by the accepting unit as being related to the order information of a merchandise being the subject of the issuance-requested document, a checking unit checking a state of issuance of the issuance-requested documents based on the issuance request information and the order information that are retained by the retaining unit, and a generating unit generating a list screen displaying the states of issuance of the respective documents, which are checked by the checking unit, in the form of a list on a predetermined terminal.

Abstract: A document issuance system can cope with the special requests for issuing the invoice and the receipt while scheming to make efficient the invoice-and-receipt issuance management operation of the ordered merchandise.

Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises a reception section that receives format-specifying data specifying an attribute relating to a format of a document and data which identifies contents to which the format is applied, from a communication terminal; a generation section that generates document data by applying the format-specifying data to the identified contents; and a transmission section that transmits the document data generated by the generation section.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided that is capable of displaying existence of update information that is optimal to a client terminal for each piece of individual information when information accumulated in a server is browsed by the client terminal in the Internet or the like. Determination on which piece of the individual information has already been read (seen) information in the terminal is made possible by causing each piece of the information to have individual update information as server side document information and comparing the update information with update information in the client terminal side. By adding and returning a display attribute indicating unread (unseen) to the individual information for each client terminal based on determination results, individual update information that is not unified for each client terminal can be easily grasped.

Abstract: When an application procedure starts, a user is requested to specify equipment to be discarded. When the equipment to be discarded is specified, it is determined whether or not the standards for a weight and a size of a distribution company who transfers the equipment to be discarded from the user are exceeded. Then, it is determined whether or not the processing cost has already been paid, or whether the payment is to be made by transfer, using a credit card, etc. Then personal information is input, and settling means is practically specified, thereby terminating the application for recycling a PC from the user.

Abstract: An apparatus for creating purchase information includes a storage unit, a searching unit, and a creation unit. The storage unit storages purchase information concerning items selected by a customer from an item list provided by an online shopping service. The searching unit searches the storage unit for the purchase information corresponding to a search condition received from a person, e.g., a supervisor who manages the online shopping service, other than the customer. The creation unit creates purchase information concerning an item to be purchased by the person, based on the purchase information searched.

Abstract: A power save function remote control method for a system having a first information processing apparatus and at least one second information processing apparatus which are coupled via a network, includes a first step outputting a control signal which instructs a power save mode from the first information processing apparatus to the network, and a second step switching the second information processing apparatus to the power save mode in response to the control signal when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the second information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided that is capable of displaying existence of update information that is optimal to a client terminal for each piece of individual information when information accumulated in a server is browsed by the client terminal in the Internet or the like. Determination on which piece of the individual information has already been read (seen) information in the terminal is made possible by causing each piece of the information to have individual update information as server side document information and comparing the update information with update information in the client terminal side. By adding and returning a display attribute indicating unread (unseen) to the individual information for each client terminal based on determination results, individual update information that is not unified for each client terminal can be easily grasped.