Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Tani

Hirokazu Tani 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).

  • TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND TRANSACTION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230351389
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a transaction processing system includes a user terminal, an authentication server, a payment server, and a receipt server. The receipt server manages receipt information regarding a transaction paid for by the payment server in association with a user's identifier acquired by the authentication server on the basis of biometric data input by the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi YOKOTE, Hirokazu TANI
  • SERVER DEVICE, SETTLEMENT RESULT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20230077770
    Abstract: A server device includes a specifying-information acquiring unit configured to acquire transaction specifying information for specifying a transaction for which a settlement request is output from a settlement terminal, a result-information acquiring unit configured to acquire result information indicating a result of a settlement device processing, in response to the settlement request, the transaction specified by the transaction specifying information, and an output unit configured to, if a predetermined time elapses after the specifying-information acquiring unit acquires the transaction specifying information, output the result information acquired by the result-information acquiring unit to the settlement terminal that outputs the settlement request for the transaction specified by the transaction specifying information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu TANI
  • TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND TRANSACTION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20220076266
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a transaction processing system includes a user terminal, an authentication server, a payment server, and a receipt server. The receipt server manages receipt information regarding a transaction paid for by the payment server in association with a user's identifier acquired by the authentication server on the basis of biometric data input by the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi YOKOTE, Hirokazu TANI
  • Method for producing food product of wheat having improved quality and preservability
    Patent number: 6177109
    Abstract: A method for producing a food product of wheat includes the step of adding a bacillus lactase enzyme having activity for transferring sugar to lipid to raw material of wheat, where the food product of wheat produced by the method maintains its freshness for a longer period of time than a food product of wheat produced by a method including no step of adding the enzyme to the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Daiwa Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yumiko Hidaki, Hirokazu Tani, Yasuhiro Shimizu