Patents by Inventor Akira Ichie

Akira Ichie 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).

  • Publication number: 20150029398
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a terminal, power supply module, measurement module, prediction module, and output module. The terminal is configured to connect with a cable from a chargeable external apparatus. The power supply module is configured to connect the terminal and to supply electric power to the external apparatus via the terminal. The measurement module is configured to measure a supplied power from the power supply module. The prediction module is configured to predict a charging status of the external apparatus based on the measurement result of the supplied power. The output module is configured to output the charging status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akira Ichie, Takanori Yamaguchi, Hiroki Yamanaka, Hajime Suda, Masami Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8856839
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content transmitter includes: a notification module and a content distribution module. The notification module is configured to notify, in response to a request from a content receiver, the content receiver of device information, container information, and content information. The device information indicates whether on-air content is distributed. The container information indicates a container including the on-air content. The content information includes content acquisition information indicating a destination from which the on-air content is acquired at when the on-air content is to be distributed to the content receiver. The content distribution module is configured to distribute the on-air content to the content receiver in response to a request from the content receiver based on the notified content information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masashi Tsuji, Akira Ichie
  • Patent number: 8824972
    Abstract: A radio station connected to another radio station via a radio link and identifying a fault of the radio link, including: a radio link controlling unit, a statistical information acquiring unit and a fault identifying unit wherein the radio link controlling unit executes radio link control of the radio link in accordance with a radio link control scheme, the statistical information acquiring unit acquires statistical information indicating a state of the radio link during the execution of the radio link control, and the fault identifying unit identifies the fault of the radio link from among a plurality of faults associated with statistical information, on the basis of the statistical information acquired by the statistical information acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Seijiro Yoneyama, Akira Ichie
  • Patent number: 8793345
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control terminal includes: a content information obtaining module; a content selector; an identifier converter; and a remote-control-server controller. The content information obtaining module obtains content information presented by a content sender. The content selector selects, from the content information, a content to be played. The identifier converter converts, if a device identifier of the content sender is identical to a device identifier of a content receiver, content information of the selected content into a content identifier for remote controlling in a remote control server, based on a conversion rule set in advance. Here, the remote control server controls remote operations with respect to content on the network. The remote-control-server controller sends, based on the content identifier for remote controlling, a play control message to the remote control server comprising a device identifier same as that of the content sender and of the content receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Ichie, Masashi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 8719439
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content transmitting and receiving device includes: a content designator receiver receiving a content designator as a uniform resource identifier (URI) over a network; a content transmitter function identifier extracting module extracting a content transmitter function identifier from the received content designator; a content transmitter function identifier comparator comparing the extracted content transmitter function identifier with a content transmitter function identifier stored in the content transmitting and receiving device; a content obtaining method switching module switching between internal transfer of content and external transfer of content over the network based on a comparison result of the content transmitter function identifier comparator; and a content reader reading a designated content from a content accumulating module, wherein if the content obtaining method switching module switches to the internal transfer, the content reader transmits the read desig
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Ichie, Masashi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20130007222
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control terminal includes: a content information obtaining module; a content selector; an identifier converter; and a remote-control-server controller. The content information obtaining module obtains content information presented by a content sender. The content selector selects, from the content information, a content to be played. The identifier converter converts, if a device identifier of the content sender is identical to a device identifier of a content receiver, content information of the selected content into a content identifier for remote controlling in a remote control server, based on a conversion rule set in advance. Here, the remote control server controls remote operations with respect to content on the network. The remote-control-server controller sends, based on the content identifier for remote controlling, a play control message to the remote control server comprising a device identifier same as that of the content sender and of the content receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Akira Ichie, Masashi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20120278848
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content transmitter includes: a notification module and a content distribution module. The notification module is configured to notify, in response to a request from a content receiver, the content receiver of device information, container information, and content information. The device information indicates whether on-air content is distributed. The container information indicates a container including the on-air content. The content information includes content acquisition information indicating a destination from which the on-air content is acquired at when the on-air content is to be distributed to the content receiver. The content distribution module is configured to distribute the on-air content to the content receiver in response to a request from the content receiver based on the notified content information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: MASASHI TSUJI, AKIRA ICHIE
  • Publication number: 20120158892
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content transmitting and receiving device includes: a content designator receiver receiving a content designator as a uniform resource identifier (URI) over a network; a content transmitter function identifier extracting module extracting a content transmitter function identifier from the received content designator; a content transmitter function identifier comparator comparing the extracted content transmitter function identifier with a content transmitter function identifier stored in the content transmitting and receiving device; a content obtaining method switching module switching between internal transfer of content and external transfer of content over the network based on a comparison result of the content transmitter function identifier comparator; and a content reader reading a designated content from a content accumulating module, wherein if the content obtaining method switching module switches to the internal transfer, the content reader transmits the read desig
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Akira Ichie, Masashi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20120157007
    Abstract: A radio station connected to another radio station via a radio link and identifying a fault of the radio link, including: a radio link controlling unit, a statistical information acquiring unit and a fault identifying unit wherein the radio link controlling unit executes radio link control of the radio link in accordance with a radio link control scheme, the statistical information acquiring unit acquires statistical information indicating a state of the radio link during the execution of the radio link control, and the fault identifying unit identifies the fault of the radio link from among a plurality of faults associated with statistical information, on the basis of the statistical information acquired by the statistical information acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Seijiro YONEYAMA, Akira Ichie
  • Publication number: 20120075987
    Abstract: A radio apparatus configured to identify a fault of a radio link with a radio station and to execute a remedial action has a statistical information acquisition part configured to acquire a characteristic value of statistical information expressing a status of the radio link, a fault detector configured to detect a plurality of faults preliminarily associated with the statistical information in a predetermined order based on the characteristic value, and a remedial action execution part configured to execute a remedial action preliminarily associated with the fault detected by the fault detector, wherein the plurality of faults comprises a shadowing and a radio noise, and the predetermined order is set so that a detection of the shadowing has priority over a detection of the radio noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Seijiro YONEYAMA, Akira Ichie
  • Publication number: 20100124171
    Abstract: A wireless station includes a measuring unit measuring first and second communication delays of first and second wireless terminals; a first determining unit determining first and second transmission rates of the first and second wireless terminals; a second determining unit determining first and second timings of transmitting a response request frame and first and second lengths of response frames to be returned from the first and second wireless terminals; a transmitting unit transmitting a response request frame that requests returning of response frames of the first and second lengths at the first and second transmission rates, at the first and second transmission timings; a detecting unit detecting that the first and second wireless terminals are in hidden terminal relation upon detecting a collision of the response frames returned from the first and second wireless terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Seijiro Yoneyama, Akira Ichie
  • Patent number: 7620732
    Abstract: An apparatus is for setting a communication path between a communication terminal device connected through a first network and a plurality of second networks. The apparatus includes a name resolution request generator, a destination determiner, and a path setting unit. The name resolution request generator generates and transmits a name resolution request addressed to a name resolution server of the second networks, based on a name resolution request for name resolution of a destination received from the communication terminal device. The destination determiner assigns a priority to a name resolution response received from the name resolution server, and determines a destination based on the priority. The path setting unit sets a path by generating a routing table from path information including address information of the destination, address information of a gateway of the second networks, and an interface name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishihara, Akira Ichie
  • Publication number: 20060002406
    Abstract: There is provided a network connection apparatus comprising: a request acceptance unit which accepts a assignment request of network identification information from a different network connection apparatus connected to the network; an assigning unit which assigns the network identification information to the different network connection apparatus; a noticing unit which notifies the different network connection apparatus of the assigned network identification information; a generating unit which generates routing information on the basis of the assigned network identification information and host identification information of the different network connection apparatus; and a transmitting unit which transmits the generated routing information to a further different network connection apparatus other than the different network connection apparatus, connected to at least one of the networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishihara, Akira Ichie
  • Publication number: 20050111384
    Abstract: An apparatus is for setting a communication path between a communication terminal device connected through a first network and a plurality of second networks. The apparatus includes a name resolution request generator, a destination determiner, and a path setting unit. The name resolution request generator generates and transmits a name resolution request addressed to a name resolution server of the second networks, based on a name resolution request for name resolution of a destination received from the communication terminal device. The destination determiner assigns a priority to a name resolution response received from the name resolution server, and determines a destination based on the priority. The path setting unit sets a path by generating a routing table from path information including address information of the destination, address information of a gateway of the second networks, and an interface name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishihara, Akira Ichie