Patents by Inventor Masafumi Itabashi

Masafumi Itabashi 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).

  • Method and apparatus for transmitting data in correspondence to a progress stage of a series of business processings
    Patent number: 5864821
    Abstract: Even if undecided portion is contained in the data which is necessary for a series of business processings, necessary data is transmitted to the business processing section which wants to confirm the necessary data without carrying out the destination specifying operation. When inputting data from the business processing section in charge of input, parameters representing the degrees of decision are input together with the data and are stored in a database which is common to the business processing sections, the progress stage of a series of business processings is judged on the basis of a progress stage definition table in which the relation between the input situation of the data items and the parameters, and the progress stages of the series of business processings is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naofumi Hosoda, Masato Tamaki, Toshihiko Mori, Masafumi Itabashi, Mitsuko Yoshimoto