Abstract: An information providing device, which provides information (such as web page) to a client device via a network, includes: a usage history storing unit that stores a usage history of each web page into a usage history database, and calculates a utilization rate of each web page based on the usage history; a display style changing unit that changes a style of displaying a link to the web page or the web page itself based on the utilization rate and display settings; and a display settings changing unit that changes the display settings according to an instruction from a user and stores the display settings in a display settings storage unit.

Abstract: Schedule data described using a sequence of a predetermined specification based on a set of a place condition and a time condition, and a schedule to be performed based on the place condition and time condition is processed depending on a range of a place information and a range of a time information to be presented to a user, and information corresponding to the schedule is presented to the user.

Abstract: Situated information (SI) is created by adding situation information, which expresses by 5W1H a situation where an information resource becomes effective, to the information resource, and the SI is registered to an SI memory unit. Then, information resource which has situation information fitting the current situation is selected and presented to a user.

Abstract: The layout survey apparatus includes a calculating unit that calculates a distance to a plurality of other devices respectively on the basis of a reception field intensity; a creating unit that creates location data of the apparatus and the devices on the basis of the distance calculated; an acquiring unit that acquires location data of the apparatus and the devices from the devices respectively; and a creating unit that creates layout information for displaying physical layout of the apparatus and the devices on the basis of the location data created and the location data acquired.

Abstract: When a server apparatus 10 accepts an access of a user, the server apparatus 10 saves both identification information of the user and an access time instant of the user into a file 27 during a preselected time period, and also counts identification information related to the same user, which has been saved in this file 27. Then, when a counted number is larger than, or equal to a certain number, the server apparatus 10 judges that this user intensively accesses the server apparatus 10 within a short time period. Thus, users who access the server apparatus 10 are classified into a user who intensively access this server apparatus 10 within a short time period, or another user who does not intensively access this server apparatus 10 within a short time period. As to such a user who intensively accesses a server apparatus within a short time period, log information of this user is not recorded, so that loads given to the server apparatus are reduced.

Abstract: An information copying apparatus includes a display processing unit that creates display mode data based on display object data and display-mode designation data stored in a first memory area, and displays a display mode corresponding to the display mode data on a first window; and a data copying unit that selects, when a copy operation for copying the display mode into a second window is performed, a part of or a whole of the display mode displayed on the window, and copies the display-mode designation data and the display object data into a second memory area corresponding to the second window.

Abstract: An information provider computer program includes computer executable instructions which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform obtaining from an information user device permission for providing information to the information user device, receiving permission information corresponding to the permission and to a permission level related to usability of the information to a user, the permission information being issued by the information user device, and transmitting the information and the permission information received to the information user device.

Abstract: A navigation script includes time and point information for navigation and information for guidance, and describes an instruction sequence which can represent these information in time series in a mark-up language. According to the structured data generated from the navigation script, an instruction corresponding to a current time or point is executed, so that information for guidance to be presented is output.

Abstract: Position information measured by a terminal of a mobile body is encrypted and transmitted to a position recording center. The position recording center accumulates the position information of each mobile body in the encrypted state. The mobile body or a position information service center providing predetermined position information services to the mobile body can not decrypt other person's position information recorded by the position recording apparatus without the permission of the person. Therefore, it is possible to manage the position information of the mobile body without infringing the privacy of the mobile body. Furthermore, high-level security can be secured since the position recording apparatus itself can not decrypt the accumulated position information without obtaining the key for decryption from the mobile body.

Abstract: A navigation script includes time and point information for navigation and information for guidance, and describes an instruction sequence which can represent these information in time series in a mark-up language. According to the structured data generated from the navigation script, an instruction corresponding to a current time or point is executed, so that information for guidance to be presented is output.

Abstract: An automation level selection unit automatically selects one automation level corresponding to a given trigger based on a situation, the prediction of performance, the detection of a user reaction, or the record of a user operation in the past. A level-based process control unit controls a predetermined process corresponding to the automation level selected by the automation level selection unit.

Abstract: A characteristic extraction apparatus relates location data about a location which a moving object, such as a human being, etc., visits, to situation data representing a situation at a time when the moving object visits the location and records the data. Then, it analyzes the recorded data, extracts the characteristic, such as a preference, a movement pattern, etc., of the moving object, and presents it to a user.

Abstract: A characteristic extraction apparatus relates location data about a location which a moving object, such as a human being, etc., visits, to situation data representing a situation at a time when the moving object visits the location and records the data. Then, it analyzes the recorded data, extracts the characteristic, such as a preference, a movement pattern, etc., of the moving object, and presents it to a user.

Abstract: The device includes a current position information acquiring section that acquires current position information related to the current position of a car every fixed interval of time, a matching processing section that carries out a matching between a target position information located on a route through which the car travels and the current position information, a control unit which, if there is a match between the target position information and the current position information, requests a guide information supplying device to send guide information related to the target position information, through a radio link, a radio station, a traveling object network and the Internet, and a display section that displays the guide information supplied from the guide information supplying device through the Internet, the traveling object network, the radio station and the radio link.

Abstract: A navigation script includes time and point information for navigation and information for guidance, and describes an instruction sequence which can represent these information in time series in a mark-up language. According to the structured data generated from the navigation script, an instruction corresponding to a current time or point is executed, so that information for guidance to be presented is output.

Abstract: A banner advertisement forming apparatus 2 accepts banner advertisement forming information required to form a banner advertisement from a banner advertisement managing apparatus 1 connected via a network 3. Upon receipt of a banner advertisement forming command, the banner advertisement forming apparatus 2 forms a banner advertisement based upon the stored banner advertisement forming information. A sponsor may instruct the banner advertisement managing apparatus 1 to form the banner advertisement in a simple manner.

Abstract: A navigation script includes time and point information for navigation and information for guidance, and describes an instruction sequence which can represent these information in time series in a mark-up language. According to the structured data generated from the navigation script, an instruction corresponding to a current time or point is executed, so that information for guidance to be presented is output.

Abstract: The right for correlating a region or an existence with a virtual region in a virtual world structured in for example the Internet is sold, bought, lent, or rented. For example, when a buyer bought a virtual region from a seller, the virtual region of the seller is correlated with a virtual region of the buyer in a link method, a paste method, or a projection method.

Abstract: By implementing a unit obtaining behavior data, a unit recording/storing the obtained behavior data and a unit calculating the fee of the recorded/stored behavior data and selling the behavior data by a computer system, the behavior data are traded. By using data in which a paired series of place information/time information and information provided to a user depending on a time/place to be presented are described according to a prescribed specification, the utility of such data can be improved. In this way, a system in which data about a series of human consecutive behavior can be collected and the behavior data can be sold, can be provided, and as a result, behavior data can be effectively utilized for commodity development, information service, advertisement/commercial, etc.

Abstract: When a navigation script has a contradiction with respect to time and place, a navigation information presenting apparatus adjusts the contradiction, executes instructions of the navigation script corresponding to restriction information, and presents the navigation information to the user. In addition, the navigation information presenting apparatus presents navigation information to the user at a timing corresponding to information representing traveling speed and/or time step.