Patents by Inventor Kentaro Umesawa

Kentaro Umesawa 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: 20160314721
    Abstract: A storage device includes a housing accommodating a storage medium; a printed circuit board having a first side on which electronic components of the storage device are mounted and a second side opposite to the first side, a label overlying the second side of the printed circuit board, the label comprising a base layer and a metal film formed on a surface of the base layer, the metal film being attached to the second side of the printed circuit board, and an insulating layer between the second side of the printed circuit board and a portion of the label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Hisashi HASEGAWA, Kenichi NUMATA, Kentaro UMESAWA
  • Patent number: 9450761
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a host interface, a first storage unit which stores data in a nonvolatile manner, and a memory controller. The memory controller includes a management information generating unit which generates command information for every command received from a host through the host interface and a digital signature calculating unit which generates a digital signature from the command information using a secret key. The management information generating unit generates management information which contains the command information and the digital signature for the every command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeyuki Minamimoto, Kentaro Umesawa, Masaki Saito, Masamitsu Ohhashi
  • Publication number: 20150370482
    Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a storage unit having plural regions including a first region and a second region, an interface unit configured to receive from an external device an access request for access to the first region, and a controller configured to control the storage unit to store in the second region information indicating that the access request has been received and executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Daisuke MITO, Teruji YAMAKAWA, Kentaro UMESAWA
  • Publication number: 20150358321
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a storage device includes a storage unit, a receiving unit, an authenticating unit, and a control unit. Prior to executing erasure processing of data that has been stored in the storage unit, the receiving unit receives, from an external device that clocks time, third information including first information and second information, the first information regarding time counted by the external device and the second information being information for authenticating the external device. The authenticating unit performs authentication processing of the external device by using the second information included in the third information. When the authentication of the external device has succeeded, the control unit generates an erasure log that contains erasure time when the erasure processing has been executed on the basis of the first information included in the third information. When the authentication of the external device has failed, the execution of the erasure processing is prohibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroki Udagawa, Yoshiyuki Kudoh, Taichiro Yamanaka, Yasuto Aramaki, Teruji Yamakawa, Kentaro Umesawa, Sachi Tarui
  • Publication number: 20150256344
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a host interface, a first storage unit which stores data in a nonvolatile manner, and a memory controller. The memory controller includes a management information generating unit which generates command information for every command received from a host through the host interface and a digital signature calculating unit which generates a digital signature from the command information using a secret key. The management information generating unit generates management information which contains the command information and the digital signature for the every command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeyuki MINAMIMOTO, Kentaro UMESAWA, Masaki SAITO, Masamitsu OHHASHI
  • Patent number: 8885870
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes: an extracting unit configured to extract a feature quantity of a content; a first detecting unit configured to detect a point in the content where variation of the feature quantity is a first predetermined amount or more; a second detecting unit configured to detect components of watermark information including components corresponding to respective intervals based on the point; a determining unit configured to determine a reliability of the watermark information that is detected; and a selecting unit configured to select a first watermark information from the watermark information based on a result of determination determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Matsushita, Nakaba Kogure, Fangming Zhao, Kentaro Umesawa, Toru Kambayashi
  • Patent number: 8798063
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first processing unit to judge, whether the route information storing unit stores a second next destination address; a second processing unit to judge whether a received packet includes an message authentication code, in the case where the route-information storing unit stores the second next destination address; a third processing unit to judge whether the key-information storing unit stores a second shared key, which is a first shared key shared between the information processing apparatus, in the case where the received packet does not include the message authentication code for the second next destination address; a third packet generating unit to generate a third packet, which includes a next destination and information indicating that the generation of an message authentication code is impossible, in the case where the key information storing unit does not store the second shared key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Fangming Zhao, Toshinari Takahashi, Shinji Yamanaka, Yuichi Komano, Kentaro Umesawa
  • Patent number: 8732463
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data transmitting apparatus including an authenticator generating unit and a communicating unit. The authenticator generating unit generates a first authenticator by using a first encryption key and generates a second authenticator including a first to an n-th fragment information items by using a second encryption key. The communicating unit transmits a first packet including the first authenticator and the first fragment information item to a destination device and, after the first packet is transmitted, if a response indicating successful authentication is not received from the destination device within a certain period, sequentially transmits an i-th packet (i is an integer being 2 or more and n or less) including the i-th fragment information item to the destination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshinari Takahashi, Fangming Zhao, Shinji Yamanaka, Yuichi Komano, Kentaro Umesawa
  • Patent number: 8490164
    Abstract: An authenticating device communicating with a server device includes: a dividing unit that divides secret information into plural secret fragments by a threshold secret sharing scheme; a first generating unit that generates plural cryptographic fragments by encrypting the secret fragments using first plural passwords; a first transmitting unit that transmits the cryptographic fragments to the server device; a first receiving unit that receives the cryptographic fragments from the server device, a second generating unit that generates plural secret fragment candidates by decrypting the cryptographic fragments using second plural passwords; a third generating unit that obtains a verifying information candidate by the threshold secret sharing scheme using a group of the secret fragment candidates; a second transmitting unit that transmits the verifying information candidate to the server device; and a second receiving unit that receives result information of comparing the verifying information candidate with ver
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshinari Takahashi, Kentaro Umesawa, Shinji Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20120243541
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first processing unit to judge, whether the route information storing unit stores a second next destination address; a second processing unit to judge whether a received packet includes an message authentication code, in the case where the route-information storing unit stores the second next destination address; a third processing unit to judge whether the key-information storing unit stores a second shared key, which is a first shared key shared between the information processing apparatus, in the case where the received packet does not include the message authentication code for the second next destination address; a third packet generating unit to generate a third packet, which includes a next destination and information indicating that the generation of an message authentication code is impossible, in the case where the key information storing unit does not store the second shared key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Fangming ZHAO, Toshinari Takahashi, Shinji Yamanaka, Yuichi Komano, Kentaro Umesawa
  • Publication number: 20120233461
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data transmitting apparatus including an authenticator generating unit and a communicating unit. The authenticator generating unit generates a first authenticator by using a first encryption key and generates a second authenticator including a first to an n-th fragment information items by using a second encryption key. The communicating unit transmits a first packet including the first authenticator and the first fragment information item to a destination device and, after the first packet is transmitted, if a response indicating successful authentication is not received from the destination device within a certain period, sequentially transmits an i-th packet (i is an integer being 2 or more and n or less) including the i-th fragment information item to the destination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshinari TAKAHASHI, Fangming ZHAO, Shinji YAMANAKA, Yuichi KOMANO, Kentaro UMESAWA
  • Patent number: 8175267
    Abstract: A communication apparatus stores encrypted pieces having plural pieces as a part of a content encrypted, and number of transmission times. At least one first piece is encrypted by plural different encryption keys. The communication apparatus selects as priority pieces plural encrypted pieces corresponding to at least one first piece among the first pieces, based on number of untransmitted encrypted pieces of which number of transmission times is zero among plural encrypted pieces of which first piece is encrypted, and stores priority piece information specifying the priority piece. When a piece request is received from other communication apparatus, the communication apparatus determines an encrypted piece to be transmitted, based on priority piece information, and transmits the encrypted piece to the other communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Umesawa, Ryuiti Koike, Hideki Matsumoto, Tatsuyuki Matsushita, Taku Kato, Haruhiko Toyama, Hideaki Sato, Toru Kambayashi, Satoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20120063635
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes: an extracting unit configured to extract a feature quantity of a content; a first detecting unit configured to detect a point in the content where variation of the feature quantity is a first predetermined amount or more; a second detecting unit configured to detect components of watermark information including components corresponding to respective intervals based on the point; a determining unit configured to determine a reliability of the watermark information that is detected; and a selecting unit configured to select a first watermark information from the watermark information based on a result of determination determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Matsushita, Nakaba Kogure, Fangming Zhao, Kentaro Umesawa, Toru Kambayashi
  • Publication number: 20120059528
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a server to which a plurality of power meters each measuring an amount of power consumption of an electric appliance is connected, includes a receiving unit, a first storage unit and a calculating unit. The receiving unit receives a calculation result. The calculation result is calculated based on the amount of power consumption measured by each of the plurality of power meters and each of random numbers generated according to a probability distribution by each of the plurality of power meters. The first storage unit stores therein parameters for generating random numbers. The calculating unit calculates an estimation value of a sum or average of the amounts of power consumption using the calculation results and the parameters. The estimation value is used for determining whether to perform power control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kentaro UMESAWA, Yuichi KOMANO, Shinji YAMANAKA, Toshinari TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 7940761
    Abstract: Communication connection method for connecting server computer to client computer via network, comprises storing group identification information items for identifying groups, in relation to information indicating number of connection request packets uniquely and secretly allocated to each group of groups, each group including users allowed to access server computer, counting connection request packets received from client computer within preset period to obtain counted number, determining whether information corresponds to counted number, acquiring one group of groups to which connection request packets corresponding to counted number are allocated, if information corresponds to counted number, determining whether resources of server computer are allocated to group indicated by acquired group identification item, generating connection request acknowledgement packet in response to at least one of received connection request packets, and transmitting generated connection request acknowledgement packet to netwo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Umesawa, Toshinari Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20100008509
    Abstract: A communication apparatus obtains file information indicating all or a part of first and second encrypted pieces obtained by encrypting a plurality of pieces constituting a part of a content and version management information with which it is possible to judge whether the file information has validity and receives, for each of the pieces, one of the first encrypted piece and the second encrypted piece from another communication apparatus, by using the file information. The communication apparatus transmits, to a key server, a request message for requesting decryption keys each being used for decrypting the one of the first encrypted piece and the second encrypted piece received for a different one of the pieces and the version management information of the file information used to obtain the one of the first encrypted piece and the second encrypted piece in correspondence with each of the pieces and receives the decryption keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Matsushita, Ryuiti Koike, Hideki Matsumoto, Kentaro Umesawa, Taku Kato, Haruhiko Toyama, Hideaki Sato, Toru Kambayashi, Satoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20090282250
    Abstract: A communication apparatus receives, from another communication apparatus, a plurality of encrypted pieces obtained by encrypting a plurality of pieces constituting a part of a content and obtains a part or all of decryption keys used for decrypting the encrypted pieces. The communication apparatus also obtains an invalid piece list showing one or more identifiers of one or more encrypted pieces that can respectively be decrypted by using one or more decryption keys that have already been invalidated. In the case where at least one of the encrypted pieces is listed in the invalid piece list, the communication apparatus deletes the at least one of the encrypted pieces, based on an obtainment status of the encrypted pieces or an obtainment status of the decryption keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Hideaki SATO, Tatsuyuki Matsushita, Kentaro Umesawa, Hideki Matsumoto, Ryuiti Koike, Taku Kato, Haruhiko Toyama, Satoshi Ito, Toru Kambayashi
  • Publication number: 20090249490
    Abstract: A communication apparatus stores encrypted pieces having plural pieces as a part of a content encrypted, and number of transmission times. At least one first piece is encrypted by plural different encryption keys. The communication apparatus selects as priority pieces plural encrypted pieces corresponding to at least one first piece among the first pieces, based on number of untransmitted encrypted pieces of which number of transmission times is zero among plural encrypted pieces of which first piece is encrypted, and stores priority piece information specifying the priority piece. When a piece request is received from other communication apparatus, the communication apparatus determines an encrypted piece to be transmitted, based on priority piece information, and transmits the encrypted piece to the other communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kentaro UMESAWA, Ryuiti Koike, Hideki Matsumoto, Tatsuyuki Matsushita, Taku Kato, Haruhiko Toyama, Hideaki Sato, Toru Kambayashi, Satoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20090138714
    Abstract: A plurality of first encrypted pieces is generated by encrypting the pieces with a first encryption key. The second encrypted piece is generated by encrypting at least one of the pieces with a second encryption key. The first encryption key and the second encryption key for encrypting the same piece are different from each other. A communication apparatus receives a first encrypted piece or a second encrypted piece from other communication apparatus for each piece, transmits a request message for requesting a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted piece to a key server, and receives the decryption key from the key server in response to the request message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki MATSUSHITA, Ryuiti Koike, Hideki Matsumoto, Kentaro Umesawa, Taku Kato, Haruhiko Toyama, Hideaki Sato, Toru Kambayashi, Satoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20080155670
    Abstract: Communication connection method for connecting server computer to client computer via network, comprises storing group identification information items for identifying groups, in relation to information indicating number of connection request packets uniquely and secretly allocated to each group of groups, each group including users allowed to access server computer, counting connection request packets received from client computer within preset period to obtain counted number, determining whether information corresponds to counted number, acquiring one group of groups to which connection request packets corresponding to counted number are allocated, if information corresponds to counted number, determining whether resources of server computer are allocated to group indicated by acquired group identification item, generating connection request acknowledgement packet in response to at least one of received connection request packets, and transmitting generated connection request acknowledgement packet to netwo
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Kentaro Umesawa, Toshinari Takahashi