A server device includes an external device information managing unit which manages external device information regarding plural external devices, and an association process flow determining unit which determines an association process flow that defines how plural processes in image processing are performed on image data by the external devices, based on the external device information. When all the CPU cores in a CPU socket enter a power saving state and a total amount of memory use falls below a predetermined threshold, the computer relocates contents of the memory connected under the CPU socket to a memory under another CPU socket, thereby eliminating an access to the memory connected under the CPU socket and bringing a whole of the CPU socket into the power saving state. In addition, if the user indicates that heshe disagrees with the recommendation, the television program recommender determines and displays the number of times that the user needs to indicate hisher desires with respect to the selected television program in order for the recommendation to agree with the user’s desires. The method also includes mapping one or more control codewords to the final number of control vector symbols and transmitting vector symbols carrying the one or more user data codewords and the one or more control codewords over the plurality of transmission layers during the subframe. The fiber optic manifold fits into a positioning slot molded into the light guide array, such that each optical fiber in the manifold is directed into a corresponding light guide.