Patents by Inventor Masanori Mukaiyama
Masanori Mukaiyama 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: 8446618Abstract: An information management device that manages the processing result of a print job processed by a print device through a network includes an information acquisition unit, an information output unit, a time setting unit, and a polling unit that performs an acquisition polling process in which the information acquisition unit acquires information on the print job that has been completed from the print device at a time when the information acquisition unit acquires the information on the print completion from the print device before the set waiting time elapses after the information output unit outputs the print job to the print device, and performs a checking polling process in which the information acquisition unit checks the print device for completion information at a time when the set waiting time elapses in a state that the information acquisition unit does not acquire the completion information from the print device.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masanori Mukaiyama, Masashi Asakawa
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Patent number: 8122126Abstract: There is provided a device status notification device that notifies a notification destination, which is connected to a network, of a status change in a device connected to the network through the network. The device status notification device includes a notification destination information table in which a notification destination, to which the status change in the device is notified in a case where there is the status change in the device, is registered, a notification destination validity checking unit that checks whether the notification destination registered in the notification destination information table exists with validity, and a registration deleting unit that deletes the notification destination, of which valid existence cannot be checked by the notification destination validity checking unit, from the notification destination information table.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masanori Mukaiyama, Hiromu Okada, Takahiro Shigeta
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Publication number: 20110222118Abstract: A printing apparatus with a plug-and-play execution unit includes a plug-and-play control unit and a permission receiving unit. The plug-and-play execution unit can perform predetermined communication processing with an external control apparatus, and the predetermined communication processing is triggered by a connection with the control apparatus when the connection is established via a predetermined communication path. The plug-and-play control unit is configured to prohibit the plug-and-play execution unit from operating in a case where an instruction for activating the printing apparatus according to a specific operation mode is received from an outside source, so that the plug-and-play execution unit is prevented from performing the communication processing. The permission receiving unit is configured to receive permission for execution of plug and play.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON COPRPORATIONInventors: Masanori Mukaiyama, Takeshi Takeuchi, Kazuki Tadachi, Atsushi Suzuki
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Patent number: 7870287Abstract: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works. A print portal system utilizing a server connected to the network intermediates between the client and the printer to execute a printing operation. The client outputs a printing requirement, which specifies print data of interest and a printer as an output resource, to the print portal system. The print portal system converts the input print data into data of a general purpose format, which does not depend upon the type of the printer, and transfers the converted print data to the specified printer.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2001Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masaaki Hanaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama, Toshiharu Katada
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Publication number: 20100106829Abstract: There is provided a device status notification device that notifies a notification destination, which is connected to a network, of a status change in a device connected to the network through the network. The device status notification device includes a notification destination information table in which a notification destination, to which the status change in the device is notified in a case where there is the status change in the device, is registered, a notification destination validity checking unit that checks whether the notification destination registered in the notification destination information table exists with validity, and a registration deleting unit that deletes the notification destination, of which valid existence cannot be checked by the notification destination validity checking unit, from the notification destination information table.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori MUKAIYAMA, Hiromu OKADA, Takahiro SHIGETA
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Patent number: 7484211Abstract: The technique of the invention attains a practical printing system between arbitrary clients and printers connecting with a network. An intermediation server connecting with the network is interposed between the clients and the printers to intermediate printing. Each client sends a printing request, which includes selection of print data and specification of a printer as an output destination, to the intermediation server. The intermediation server converts the selected print data into a general purpose format, which does not depend upon the type of the printer, and transfers the converted print data to the specified printer.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama, Satoshi Miyazawa
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Patent number: 7461138Abstract: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works. A print portal system utilizing a server connected to the network intermediates between the client and the printer to execute a printing operation. The client outputs a printing requirement, which specifies print data of interest and a printer as an output resource, to the print portal system. The print portal system converts the input print data into data of a general purpose format, which does not depend upon the type of the printer, and transfers the converted print data to the specified printer.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masanori Mukaiyama, Masaaki Hanaoka, Yasushi Nakaoka, Yutaka Hisamatsu
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Publication number: 20080246995Abstract: An information management device that manages the processing result of a print job processed by a print device through a network includes an information acquisition unit, an information output unit, a time setting unit, and a polling unit that performs an acquisition polling process in which the information acquisition unit acquires information on the print job that has been completed from the print device at a time when the information acquisition unit acquires the information on the print completion from the print device before the set waiting time elapses after the information output unit outputs the print job to the print device, and performs a checking polling process in which the information acquisition unit checks the print device for completion information at a time when the set waiting time elapses in a state that the information acquisition unit does not acquire the completion information from the print device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori MUKAIYAMA, Masashi Asakawa
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Patent number: 7370090Abstract: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works. A print portal system utilizing a server connected to the network intermediates between the client and the printer to execute a printing operation. The client outputs a printing requirement, which specifies print data of interest and a printer as an output resource, to the print portal system. The print portal system converts the input print data into data of a general purpose format, which does not depend upon the type of the printer, and transfers the converted print data to the specified printer.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masaaki Hanaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 7266590Abstract: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works. A print portal system utilizing a server connected to the network intermediates between the client and the printer to execute a printing operation. The client outputs a printing requirement, which specifies print data of interest and a printer as an output resource, to the print portal system. The print portal system converts the input print data into data of a general purpose format, which does not depend upon the type of the printer, and transfers the converted print data to the specified printer.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2001Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masaaki Hanaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama
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Publication number: 20070027990Abstract: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works. A print portal system utilizing a server connected to the network intermediates between the client and the printer to execute a printing operation. The client outputs a printing requirement, which specifies print data of interest and a printer as an output resource, to the print portal system. The print portal system converts the input print data into data of a general purpose format, which does not depend upon the type of the printer, and transfers the converted print data to the specified printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: February 1, 2007Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masaaki Hanaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 6970923Abstract: Disclosed is a device management network system that is capable of monitoring all abnormalities that has occurred in a network device. The device management network system includes a management server, client devices, and network devices to be managed. The management server, when receiving a device-details screen request from a certain client device running a Web browser, collects MIB objects from the printing device specified by the information in the device-details screen request. Then, the management server provides the client device with data which causes the Web browser to display the device-details screen containing information about all abnormalities that has occurred in the printing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2000Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masanori Mukaiyama, Nobuhiro Gunji, Toshihiko Takizawa
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Publication number: 20050190399Abstract: This is a printing terminal that reads and processes printer specification information and EMF files from a portable recording medium. The specific structure is as follows. Specifically, output contents are recorded on the portable recording medium by a drawing command that does not exist in the output device, and an EMF file that has printer specification information in the header is recorded. When the printing terminal detects that the portable recording medium is connected, it does a matching comparison of the printer identification information that the printing terminal has with the printer specification information of the header of the EMF file recorded in the portable recording medium. When the printer specification information and the printer identification information match, the printing terminal reads the EMF file from the portable recording medium and prints.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2005Publication date: September 1, 2005Inventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama, Masaaki Hanaoka, Takashi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20050162688Abstract: When the user PC 200 is connected to the printing terminal 300, a generic printer driver 240 is automatically installed thereon. The generic printer driver 240 transfers to the printing terminal 300 EMF data generated by a printing application 210 in its existing format. When it receives the EMF data, the printing terminal 300 converts it into RAW data that can be interpreted by a printer 400 through the work of a player 350 and a printer driver 360. The printer 400 performs printing based on the RAW data received from the printing terminal in this fashion. Using this construction, a printer installed in a public place or similar location can be used without the need to perform particular configuration operations or install a printer driver unique to the printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2004Publication date: July 28, 2005Inventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama
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Publication number: 20040201860Abstract: The technique of the invention attains a practical printing system between arbitrary clients and printers connecting with a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama, Satoshi Miyazawa
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Patent number: 6631407Abstract: A device management network system is capable of monitoring the operation status of network devices in real time with a Web browser without wasting network resources. The device management network system includes a management server, client devices, and network devices to be managed. Each of the network devices transmits an SNMP trap indicating a change of its own operation status to the management server when a status change occurs. In response to a device-details screen request from a client device, the management server provides HTML data, by which the client device running the Web browser is caused to execute a displaying applet for displaying a device-details screen and to execute a notifying applet causing displaying applet to be re-executed in response to receipt of a change notifying packet, which is outputted from the management server receiving the SNMP trap from the network device.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2000Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masanori Mukaiyama, Nobuhiro Gunji, Toshihiko Takizawa
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Publication number: 20020186408Abstract: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2001Publication date: December 12, 2002Inventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Massaki Hanaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama, Toshiharu Katada
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Publication number: 20020161830Abstract: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Masanori Mukaiyama, Masaaki Hanaoka, Yasushi Nakaoka, Yutaka Hisamatsu
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Publication number: 20020161831Abstract: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Yasushi Nakaoka, Masaaki Hanaoka, Masanori Mukaiyama
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Publication number: 20020156796Abstract: A constructed system includes multiple clients, a server like a print portal, and multiple printing stations connecting with the Internet. A client transmits an output requirement, which specifies a content of interest to be printed and a printing station selected as an output resource, to the print portal. The print portal, which works for mediation of printing, transmits the specified content of interest to the specified printing station. The print portal converts the content of interest into a PDF file by using information included in the output requirement as a password. The printing station specifies the password based on information included in the output requirement, decodes the PDF file, and actually performs a printing operation according to the decoded PDF file. Such encoding desirably enhances the security in the print mediation system via the Internet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2002Publication date: October 24, 2002Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Hisamatsu, Masanori Mukaiyama, Satoshi Miyazawa