Patents by Inventor Akio Tajima
Akio Tajima has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20190037288Abstract: In the elastic optical network, there has been the problem that processing steps increase that are required to re-optimize client signals to be concentrated; therefore, an optical network controller according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes reallocation detection means for monitoring an operation status of at least one of an optical communication channel and an optical node device that constitute an optical network, and determining, based on the operation status, whether or not to reallocate a client signal accommodated in an optical path set in the optical network; design-candidate exclusion means for designating, as a design exclusion object, at least one of the optical communication channel and the optical node device that are associated with an optical path targeted for reallocation that accommodates the client signal that the reallocation detection means has determined to reallocate; optical path design means for determining an alternative route for the optical path targeted forType: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Akio TAJIMA, Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Tomoyuki HINO
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Publication number: 20190037289Abstract: It is difficult to improve the usage efficiency of an optical communication network due to the passband narrowing effect in a wavelength selection process in an optical communication network using a wavelength division multiplexing system; therefore, an optical network management apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes wavelength selection information generating means for generating wavelength selection information on a wavelength selection process through which an optical path accommodating an information signal goes, with respect to each optical path; and wavelength selection information notifying means for notifying an optical node device through which the optical path goes of the wavelength selection information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Tomoyuki HINO, Akio TAJIMA
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Patent number: 10193651Abstract: It is difficult to improve the wavelength-band utilization rate of an optical network as a whole while operating the optical network stably; and therefore, an optical network controller according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes optical wavelength region setting means for setting a wavelength region in an optical transmission line between a plurality of optical nodes composing an optical network using wavelength division multiplexing system dividing the wavelength region into consecutive regions of a first wavelength region and a second wavelength region; optical path setting means for setting a first optical path in the first wavelength region and a second optical path in the second wavelength region, the second optical path differing from the first optical path in a route; and control unit for instructing the plurality of optical nodes on a central wavelength and a usable band of signal light for the optical node to transmit based on a setting by the optical path setting means.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Takeshita, Shinsuke Fujisawa, Ryuichi Ikematsu, Akio Tajima, Tomoyuki Hino
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Patent number: 9979468Abstract: It is difficult in an optical network to achieve fault recovery in case of multiple failures without decreasing the usage efficiency of the optical network; therefore, an optical communication system according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an optical network management device including an optical path setting means for setting, to a physical route differing from each other, a backup path corresponding to each of a plurality of active paths on an identical physical route, and a failure-case optical path setting means for setting a failure-case backup path with a compressed band of the backup path, to a physical route without a failure in a case where failures arising on more than one physical route among the physical routes; and an optical node device including an optical transceiver means for transmitting and receiving optical signals using failure-case backup path information resulting from setting by the failure-case optical path setting means.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Fujisawa, Hitoshi Takeshita, Tomoyuki Hino, Akio Tajima
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Publication number: 20180083698Abstract: If wavelength defragmentation is performed during the operation of an optical network, an instantaneous interruption of a network arises; consequently, data are lost; therefore, an optical network control method according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes monitoring a data volume of a client signal to be transmitted using a plurality of optical subcarriers; and performing synchronously, depending on a variation in the data volume, an optical subcarrier changing process of changing an active optical subcarrier, of the plurality of optical subcarriers, to be used for transmitting the client signal, and a remapping process of remapping the client signal onto an active optical subcarrier after having been changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki HINO, Akio TAJIMA, Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Shinsuke FUJISAWA
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Publication number: 20170353244Abstract: In a multi-layer network, a control load in the upper layer network increases, and the usage efficiency and the reliability of the entire network decrease; therefore, a multi-layer network system according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a first network manager configured to set a logical path in a first network layer; and a second network manager configured to set a physical path corresponding to the logical path, in a second network layer, wherein the second network manager includes a network information storage configured to store physical network information including physical route information and transmission characteristic information on the second network layer, and the first network manager sets the logical path based on the physical network information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Tomoyuki HINO, Akio TAJIMA
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Publication number: 20170338890Abstract: In an optical network system based on a wavelength division multiplexing system using a flexible frequency grid, with the diversification of optical modulation methods, the management burden on an optical network management device increases, and its control becomes complicated; therefore, an optical network system according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an optical network management device configured to receive a traffic demand, design an optical path capable of accommodating the traffic demand, and create optical path design information of a design result; and an optical node device configured to be used for creating the optical path, wherein the optical node device calculates an allocable bandwidth from the optical path design information and optical node device information on a configuration of the optical node device, and the allocable bandwidth is an optical frequency bandwidth of a generable optical path that the optical node device is capable of generating, and the optical neType: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Tomoyuki HINO, Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Akio TAJIMA
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Publication number: 20170302370Abstract: It is difficult in an optical network to achieve fault recovery in case of multiple failures without decreasing the usage efficiency of the optical network; therefore, an optical communication system according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an optical network management device including an optical path setting means for setting, to a physical route differing from each other, a backup path corresponding to each of a plurality of active paths on an identical physical route, and a failure-case optical path setting means for setting a failure-case backup path with a compressed band of the backup path, to a physical route without a failure in a case where failures arising on more than one physical route among the physical routes; and an optical node device including an optical transceiver means for transmitting and receiving optical signals using failure-case backup path information resulting from setting by the failure-case optical path setting means.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Tomoyuki HINO, Akio TAJIMA
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Publication number: 20170237666Abstract: In order to achieve the dispersion of a processing load between communication devices that perform information transmission, an information communication system according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a first transmission system configured to transmit information in a direction from a first communication device to a second communication device; and a second transmission system configured to transmit information in a direction opposite to the direction of the first transmission system, wherein part of transmission information is received as received information in each of the first transmission system and the second transmission system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takao OCHI, Ken-ichiro YOSHINO, Akio TAJIMA
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Publication number: 20170180073Abstract: In an optical network based on a dense wavelength division multiplexing system using a flexible frequency grid, it is difficult to improve the usage efficiency of an optical frequency band owing to the occurrence of fragmentation of the optical frequency band; therefore, an optical network controller according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an optical frequency region setting means for dividing an optical frequency band used in an optical network based on a dense wavelength division multiplexing system using a flexible frequency grid, and setting a plurality of optical frequency regions; and an optical path setting means for setting optical paths having a common attribute in at least one of the plurality of optical frequency regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Tomoyuki HINO, Akio TAJIMA
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Publication number: 20170163371Abstract: It is difficult to build a highly efficient multicarrier optical transmission system because a multicarrier optical transmitter and receiver has limits on the degree of freedom when allocating optical transmission frames to optical subcarriers; therefore, a multicarrier optical transmitter according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes transmission-signal generating unit for accommodating a client signal in an optical transmission frame, dividing the optical transmission frame, and outputting divided frames to a plurality of lanes; optical transmission frame multiplex processing unit including a plurality of multiplexing units each of which time-division multiplexing the optical transmission frame inputted from a predetermined input lane included in the plurality of lanes and outputting a single multiplexed optical transmission frame; and optical transmission unit for modulating a plurality of optical subcarriers using a plurality of the multiplexed optical transmission frames respectivelyType: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki HINO, Akio TAJIMA, Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Shinsuke FUJISAWA
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Patent number: 9621272Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] There is provided an optical transmission device in wavelength-division-multiplexing-based optical communications that has both of improved reliability because of provision of backup optical transceiving unit and power saving capability because of appropriate control. [Solution] An optical transmission device is configured with optical switch means 40, a plurality of optical transceiving means 41 and control means 42. The optical switch means 40 outputs an input optical signal to a given path. Each optical transceiving means 41 receives an optical signal from the optical switch means 40 and transmits an optical signal to the optical switch means 40. The control means 42 performs various kinds of control.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Tajima, Kenji Mizutani
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Patent number: 9609401Abstract: It is difficult to increase the number of inputs and outputs of an optical switch supporting CDC functions, therefore, an optical switch according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a unit optical switch inputting n optical signals and outputting n optical signals; an optical splitter inputting a single optical signal, splitting the single optical signal into k optical signals, and outputting the k optical signals; and an optical selector inputting m optical signals and outputting a single optical signal, wherein the optical splitter includes m×n pieces, the unit optical switch includes m×k pieces, the optical selector includes n×k pieces, (k×(m×n)) outputs of the optical splitter correspond to (n×(m×k)) inputs of the unit optical switch, (n×(m×k)) outputs of the unit optical switch correspond to (m×(n×k)) inputs of the optical selector, and (n×m) optical signals inputted into the optical splitter are output through the (m×k) unit optical switch from the optical selector as (n×k) opticalType: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Takeshita, Ryuichi Ikematsu, Akio Tajima
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Publication number: 20170078044Abstract: It is made possible to accommodate a plurality of services and transmit each of the accommodated services to a corresponding transmission device. An optical transmitter according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes sub-carrier adjusting means for outputting sub-carriers to a plurality of output ports according to a control signal; encoding processing means for mapping client data on a plurality of output lanes according to the control signal; a plurality of modulation means for modulating the sub-carriers inputted through the output ports by client data inputted through the output lanes and outputting modulated signals; and control means for generating and outputting the control signal based on transmission information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki HINO, Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Akio TAJIMA
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Patent number: 9593240Abstract: The disclosure relates to the thermosetting resin composition containing (A) to (D): (A) a thermosetting resin containing an SiH group and an alkenyl group, being a reaction product between silsesquioxane having an SiH group and an organopolysiloxane having two alkenyl groups; (B) a thermosetting resin having an SiH group as obtained by allowing reaction among silsesquioxane having an SiH group, organopolysiloxane having two alkenyl groups, an epoxy compound having an alkenyl group and a silyl compound having an alkenyl group; (C) a linear organopolysiloxane compound having an SiH group only at one terminal; and (D) a Pt catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Tajima, Takashi Matsuo, Kiichi Kawabata, Yoshiko Ueno, Koichi Ayama
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Publication number: 20170054506Abstract: In an optical network based on a dense wavelength division multiplexing system using a flexible frequency grid, it is difficult to improve the usage efficiency of an optical frequency band owing to the occurrence of fragmentation of the optical frequency band; therefore, an optical network controller according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an optical frequency region setting means for setting a plurality of optical frequency regions in an optical frequency band used in an optical network based on a dense wavelength division multiplexing system using a flexible frequency grid; an optical path setting means for setting optical paths having a common attribute in at least one of the plurality of optical frequency regions; and an optical frequency region control means for changing an optical frequency width of the optical frequency region, and instructing the optical frequency region setting means to reconfigure, as the plurality of optical frequency regions, a plurality of optical frequType: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2015Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Tomoyuki HINO, Akio TAJIMA
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Patent number: 9512273Abstract: The invention relates to a thermosetting resin composition containing (A) to (D) below. (A) A thermosetting resin containing an SiH group and an alkenyl group, wherein the thermosetting resin is a reaction product between silsesquioxane having the SiH group and organopolysiloxane having two alkenyl groups; (B) a linear organopolysiloxane compound having an SiH group only at one terminal; (C) a silane coupling agent having an epoxy group; and (D) a Pt catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Tajima, Takashi Matsuo, Kiichi Kawabata, Koichi Ayama
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Publication number: 20160352452Abstract: It is difficult to improve the wavelength-band utilization rate of an optical network as a whole while operating the optical network stably; and therefore, an optical network controller according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes optical wavelength region setting means for setting a wavelength region in an optical transmission line between a plurality of optical nodes composing an optical network using wavelength division multiplexing system dividing the wavelength region into consecutive regions of a first wavelength region and a second wavelength region; optical path setting means for setting a first optical path in the first wavelength region and a second optical path in the second wavelength region, the second optical path differing from the first optical path in a route; and control unit for instructing the plurality of optical nodes on a central wavelength and a usable band of signal light for the optical node to transmit based on a setting by the optical path setting means.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hitoshi TAKESHITA, Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Ryuichi IKEMATSU, Akio TAJIMA, Tomoyuki HINO
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Patent number: 9503270Abstract: A communication device and a power saving method in a data transmission system are provided that can achieve the prevention of element deterioration occurring when a check signal is transmitted during sleep, as well as reductions of transmission noise and power consumption. The communication device, which is connected to another communication device through transmission/reception links corresponding to multiple channels, respectively, includes communication sections corresponding to the multiple channels, respectively, and a control section that interrupts transmission outputs of the communication element when there is no data for transmission, and sequentially changes, among the multiple channels, a channel that transmits a check signal for checking a link state during a period in which the transmission outputs are kept interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Akio Tajima
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Publication number: 20160264779Abstract: The disclosure relates to the thermosetting resin composition containing (A) to (D): (A) a thermosetting resin containing an SiH group and an alkenyl group, being a reaction product between silsesquioxane having an SiH group and an organopolysiloxane having two alkenyl groups; (B) a thermosetting resin having an SiH group as obtained by allowing reaction among silsesquioxane having an SiH group, organopolysiloxane having two alkenyl groups, an epoxy compound having an alkenyl group and a silyl compound having an alkenyl group; (C) a linear organopolysiloxane compound having an SiH group only at one terminal; and (D) a Pt catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2013Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: JNC CORPORATIONInventors: AKIO TAJIMA, TAKASHI MATSUO, KIICHI KAWABATA, YOSHIKO UENO, KOICHI AYAMA