Patents by Inventor Kazuaki Tsuchiya
Kazuaki Tsuchiya 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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Patent number: 7012931Abstract: A multicast communication method for allowing a communication control apparatus for communicating in accordance with IPv4 to communicate with a communication control apparatus for communicating in accordance with IPv6. This method includes the steps of: when an IPv4 multicast packet is inputted, discriminating that this packet is a data packet on the basis of an IPv4 header; when it is determined that the packet is the data packet, converting the IPv4 header of the IPv4 multicast packet into an IPv6 header; generating an IPv6 multicast packet; and outputting the generated IPv6 multicast packet to a IPv6 network.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2001Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hidemitsu Higuchi, Sunao Sawada, Shinji Nozaki, Kazuaki Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 6985485Abstract: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit for receiving a domain information capturing request sent from an IPv4 terminal or an IPv6 terminal and substituting its process; an IPv4 address capturing unit for capturing an IPv4 address from a DHCP server; and an IP address conversion information holding unit for holding an IPv6 address of the IPv6 terminal and the IPv4 address captured by the IPv4 address capturing unit in correspondence to each other. Thus, a communication with the IPv4 terminal can be executed without preliminarily fixedly allocating the IPv4 address to the IPv6 terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda, Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Toshikazu Yasue, Yoshifumi Atarashi, Munechika Sumikawa, Takahisa Miyamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi
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Publication number: 20050249213Abstract: A multicast communication method for allowing a communication control apparatus for communicating in accordance with IPv4 to communicate with a communication control apparatus for communicating in accordance with IPv6. This method includes the steps of: when an IPv4 multicast packet is inputted, discriminating that this packet is a data packet on the basis of an IPv4 header; when it is determined that the packet is the data packet, converting the IPv4 header of the IPv4 multicast packet into an IPv6 header; generating an IPv6 multicast packet; and outputting the generated IPv6 multicast packet to a IPv6 network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Hidemitsu Higuchi, Sunao Sawada, Shinji Nozaki, Kazuaki Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20050243828Abstract: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit for receiving a domain information capturing request sent from an IPv4 terminal or an IPv6 terminal and substituting its process; an IPv4 address capturing unit for capturing an IPv4 address from a DHCP server; and an IP address conversion information holding unit for holding an IPv6 address of the IPv6 terminal and the IPv4 address captured by the IPv4 address capturing unit in correspondence to each other. Thus, a communication with the IPv4 terminal can be executed without preliminarily fixedly allocating the IPv4 address to the IPv6 terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2005Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda, Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Toshikazu Yasue, Yoshifumi Atarashi, Munechika Sumikawa, Takahisa Miyamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi
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Patent number: 6928077Abstract: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit for receiving a domain information capturing request sent from an IPv4 terminal or an IPv6 terminal and substituting its process; an IPv4 address capturing unit for capturing an IPv4 address from a DHCP server; and an IP address conversion information holding unit for holding an IPv6 address of the IPv6 terminal and the IPv4 address captured by the IPv4 address capturing unit in correspondence to each other. Thus, a communication with the IPv4 terminal can be executed without preliminarily fixedly allocating the IPv4 address to the IPv6 terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda, Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Toshikazu Yasue, Yoshifumi Atarashi, Munechika Sumikawa, Takahisa Miyamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi
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Patent number: 6920138Abstract: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit for receiving a domain information capturing request sent from an IPv4 terminal or an IPv6 terminal and substituting its process; an IPv4 address capturing unit for capturing an IPv4 address from a DHCP server; and an IP address conversion information holding unit for holding an IPv6 address of the IPv6 terminal and the IPv4 address captured by the IPv4 address capturing unit in correspondence to each other. Thus, a communication with the IPv4 terminal can be executed without preliminarily fixedly allocating the IPv4 address to the IPv6 terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda, Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Toshikazu Yasue, Yoshifumi Atarashi, Munechika Sumikawa, Takahisa Miyamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi
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Patent number: 6920137Abstract: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit for receiving a domain information capturing request sent from an IPv4 terminal or an IPv6 terminal and substituting its process; an IPv4 address capturing unit for capturing an IPv4 address from a DHCP server; and an IP address conversion information holding unit for holding an IPv6 address of the IPv6 terminal and the IPv4 address captured by the IPv4 address capturing unit in correspondence to each other. Thus, a communication with the IPv4 terminal can be executed without preliminarily fixedly allocating the IPv4 address to the IPv6 terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda, Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Toshikazu Yasue, Yoshifumi Atarashi, Munechika Sumikawa, Takahisa Miyamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi
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Patent number: 6920136Abstract: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit for receiving a domain information capturing request sent from an IPv4 terminal or an IPv6 terminal and substituting its process; an IPv4 address capturing unit for capturing an IPv4 address from a DHCP server; and an IP address conversion information holding unit for holding an IPv6 address of the IPv6 terminal and the IPv4 address captured by the IPv4 address capturing unit in correspondence to each other. Thus, a communication with the IPv4 terminal can be executed without preliminarily fixedly allocating the IPv4 address to the IPv6 terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda, Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Toshikazu Yasue, Yoshifumi Atarashi, Munechika Sumikawa, Takahisa Miyamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi
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Patent number: 6912219Abstract: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit for receiving a domain information capturing request sent from an IPv4 terminal or an IPv6 terminal and substituting its process; an IPv4 address capturing unit for capturing an IPv4 address from a DHCP server; and an IP address conversion information holding unit for holding an IPv6 address of the IPv6 terminal and the IPv4 address captured by the IPv4 address capturing unit in correspondence to each other. Thus, a communication with the IPv4 terminal can be executed without preliminarily fixedly allocating the IPv4 address to the IPv6 terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda, Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Toshikazu Yasue, Yoshifumi Atarashi, Munechika Sumikawa, Takahisa Miyamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi
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Patent number: 6907037Abstract: A communicating apparatus is disclosed which has been connected to both of the IPv4 network and the IPv6 network for converting an IPv4 multicast packet into an IPv6 multicast packet. The communicating apparatus, which has held the IPv6 multicast addresses, holds the IPv4 multicast addresses of a multicast group on the IPv4 network and the held IPv6 multicast addresses in correspondence with each other, said communicating apparatus having been a member of said multicast group. Moreover, the communicating apparatus converts the IPv4 multicast address of the received IPv4 multicast packet into the IPv6 multicast address held in correspondence with the IPv4 multicast address, then transmitting the multicast packet to the IPv6 network.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Hidemitsu Higuchi, Sunao Sawada, Shinji Nozaki
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Packet forwarding device equipped with statistics collection device and statistics collection method
Publication number: 20050013300Abstract: A packet forwarding device equipped with a statistics collection device and statistics collection method for high speed ports at a low cost while maintaining the required statistical accuracy for each flow. In order to collect a statistic flow with the required accurate statistic information this device contains a high speed flow table, a flow table made up of many flow entries, a search decision table to decide whether to search the high speed flow table or large volume flow table; and the table to be searched is decided when a packet is received. The accuracy of the statistic information for the flow requiring accurate statistic information is guaranteed by the high speed flow table. Further by setting the large volume flow table and sampling rate as needed, statistic information for many flow entries can be collected with a sufficient flow of sampled statistic information, without lowering packet forwarding performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2004Publication date: January 20, 2005Inventors: Shinichi Akahane, Kazuo Sugai, Kazuaki Tsuchiya -
Patent number: 6690669Abstract: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit for receiving a domain information capturing request sent from an IPv4 terminal or an IPv6 terminal and substituting its process; an IPv4 address capturing unit for capturing an IPv4 address from a DHCP server; and an IP address conversion information holding unit for holding an IPv6 address of the IPv6 terminal and the IPv4 address captured by the IPv4 address capturing unit in correspondence to each other. Thus, a communication with the IPv4 terminal can be executed without preliminarily fixedly allocating the IPv4 address to the IPv6 terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2000Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda, Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Toshikazu Yasue, Yoshifumi Atarashi, Munechika Sumikawa, Takahisa Miyamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi
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Publication number: 20030193965Abstract: A packet communication method and a packet communication system capable of making an IPv4-compatible application operating on an information processing apparatus communicate with another information processing apparatus connected to an IPv6 network without using an address translation router. In the information processing apparatus connected to the IPv6 network incorporates, an IPv4-to-IPv6 protocol conversion control function is incorporated in a LAN driver. A protocol conversion control module receives an IPv4 packet from a protocol control module. When a send destination IPv4 address contained in a header of the packet is registered in an address translation table incorporated in the protocol conversion control module, an IPv6 address is generated to be sent onto a LAN. Unless the send destination IPv4 address contained in the packet header is registered in the address translation table incorporated in the protocol conversion control module, the IPv4 packet as received is intactly sent onto the LAN.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2003Publication date: October 16, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hidemitsu Higuchi, Toshikazu Yasue, Ken Watanabe, Kazuaki Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 6580717Abstract: A packet communication method and a packet communication system capable of making an IPv4-compatible application operating on an information processing apparatus communicate with another information processing apparatus connected to an IPv6 network without using an address translation router. In the information processing apparatus connected to the IPv6 network incorporates, an IPv4-to-IPv6 protocol conversion control function is incorporated in a LAN driver. A protocol conversion control module receives an IPv4 packet from a protocol control module. When a send destination IPv4 address contained in a header of the packet is registered in an address translation table incorporated in the protocol conversion control module, an IPv6 address is generated to be sent onto a LAN. Unless the send destination IPv4 address contained in the packet header is registered in the address translation table incorporated in the protocol conversion control module, the IPv4 packet as received is intactly sent onto the LAN.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1999Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hidemitsu Higuchi, Toshikazu Yasue, Ken Watanabe, Kazuaki Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20020181465Abstract: A communications apparatus for converting an IPv4 multicast packet transmit form an IPv4 terminal into an IPv6 multicast packet and transmitting the converted IPv6 multicast packet to one of a plurality of IPv6 networks. The communications apparatus has information indicating to which IPv6 network the IPv4 multicast packet to undergo conversion processing is to be transmitted. The communications apparatus then converts the received IPv4 multicast packet into an IPv6 multicast packet and transmits the converted IPv6 multicast packet to an IPv6 network where it is required to be sent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Hidemitsu Higuchi, Shinji Nozaki, Sunao Sawada
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Publication number: 20020181464Abstract: A communications apparatus for converting an IPv4 multicast packet transmit from an IPv4 terminal into an IPv6 multicast packet and transmitting the converted IPv6 multicast packet to one of a plurality of IPv6 networks. The communications apparatus has information indicating to which IPv6 network the IPv4 multicast packet to undergo conversion processing is to be transmitted. The communications apparatus then converts the received IPv4 multicast packet into an IPv6 multicast packet and transmits the converted IPv6 multicast packet to an IPv6 network where it is required to be sent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Hidemitsu Higuchi, Shinji Nozaki, Sunao Sawada
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Publication number: 20020181500Abstract: A packet communication method and a packet communication system capable of making an IPv4-compatible application operating on an information processing apparatus communicate with another information processing apparatus connected to an IPv6 network without using an address translation router. In the information processing apparatus connected to the IPv6 network incorporates, an IPv4-to-IPv6 protocol conversion control function is incorporated in a LAN driver. A protocol conversion control module receives an IPv4 packet from a protocol control module. When a send destination IPv4 address contained in a header of the packet is registered in an address translation table incorporated in the protocol conversion control module, an IPv6 address is generated to be sent onto a LAN. Unless the send destination IPv4 address contained in the packet header is registered in the address translation table incorporated in the protocol conversion control module, the IPv4 packet as received is intactly sent onto the LAN.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hidemitsu Higuchi, Toshikazu Yasue, Ken Watanabe, Kazuaki Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20020176420Abstract: A communications apparatus for converting an IPv4 multicast packet transmit from an IPv4 terminal into an IPv6 multicast packet and transmitting the converted IPv6 multicast packet to one of a plurality of IPv6 networks. The communications apparatus has information indicating to which IPv6 network the IPv4 multicast packet to undergo conversion processing is to be transmitted. The communications apparatus then converts the received IPv4 multicast packet into an IPv6 multicast packet and transmits the converted IPv6 multicast packet to an IPv6 network where it is required to be sent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2002Publication date: November 28, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Hidemitsu Higuchi, Shinji Nozaki, Sunao Sawada
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Publication number: 20020159461Abstract: A translator for coupling a first network such as an internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) and a second network such as an internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) having different addressing architectures for IP addresses due to a difference in version or the like so as not to exhaust the IP addresses of one of the two networks, a network system using the translator, and a network coupling method therefor are provided. When a packet is transferred from the IPv6 network to the IPv4 network, the translator assigns any of a plurality of previously prepared IPv4 addresses to an IPv6 address stored in a source storing field of the IPv6 packet. The assigned address is stored in a source storing field of an IPv4 packet. A packet translation unit is provided for assigning the foregoing IPv6 address to an IPv4 address stored in a destination storing field of the IPv4 packet, when a packet is transferred from the IPv4 network to the IPv6 network, and for storing this address in a destination storing field of the IPv6 packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda
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Publication number: 20020150104Abstract: A translator for coupling a first network such as an internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) and a second network such as an internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) having different addressing architectures for IP addresses due to a difference in version or the like so as not to exhaust the IP addresses of one of the two networks, a network system using the translator, and a network coupling method therefor are provided. When a packet is transferred from the IPv6 network to the IPv4 network, the translator assigns any of a plurality of previously prepared IPv4 addresses to an IPv6 address stored in a source storing field of the IPv6 packet. The assigned address is stored in a source storing field of an IPv4 packet. A packet translation unit is provided for assigning the foregoing IPv6 address to an IPv4 address stored in a destination storing field of the IPv4 packet, when a packet is transferred from the IPv4 network to the IPv6 network, and for storing this address in a destination storing field of the IPv6 packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Shinichi Hamamoto, Ken Watanabe, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Naoya Ikeda