Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Namiki

Masatoshi Namiki 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).

  • Patent number: 11936526
    Abstract: The network device information management apparatus includes: a log data acquisition unit configured to acquire log data from each of the plurality of devices, the log data including information about components of the plurality of devices; and an inventory information estimation unit configured to exclude a common portion of the log data before and after registration of the component to extract a component configuration indicating information about the component newly registered to the device, compare the extracted component configuration with the component configuration extracted from a component registered to another device, estimate the common portion as inventory information, and store the estimated inventory information in storage means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yokota, Masatoshi Namiki, Yuji Minato, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11812205
    Abstract: A monitoring control unit (22) of an OXC (20d) stores a management table (22a) in which pieces of information regarding a modulation mode, an FEC, and a frame mode of an optical signal are associated with each other, and sequentially changes the modulation mode, the FEC, and the frame mode according to the management table (22a) upon an LOS alert from a relay-side optical input/output unit (24) or an LOF alert from a DSP (25) being input thereto. Upon successfully receiving an appropriate optical signal according to the change, the monitoring control unit (22) acquires transmission source information included in the optical signal, and detects an occurrence of erroneous connection of an optical transmission line in an OXC (20g), which serves as a relay apparatus, when the acquired transmission source information indicates an optical cross-connect apparatus that is a transmission source different from an original transmission source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Namiki, Masahiro Yokota, Hiroki Kawahara, Hiroto Takechi, Katsuhiro Araya, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11750535
    Abstract: A transmission device (10) includes a flow table (11) that stores identification information about an uninterruptible target flow; a transmission-side identification unit (12) that identifies whether a received packet is from the target flow or a non-target flow based on whether the received packet matches the identification information about the target flow stored in the flow table (11); a tag application unit (13) that applies, to packets from the target flow, an uninterruptible identifier indicating that the packets are from the target flow and a sequence number for distinguishing the packets from other packets; and a branch unit (14) that branches the packets from the target flow processed by the tag application unit (13) into packets to be transferred to an active path (41) among redundant routes and packets to be transferred to a backup path (42) among the redundant routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Takechi, Hideki Maeda, Daisaku Shimazaki, Masaaki Inami, Katsuhiro Araya, Masatoshi Namiki, Masahiro Yokota
  • Patent number: 11696056
    Abstract: [Problem] whether optical input interruption detected by an OXC device is due to an external failure from an upstream side or an internal failure of the OXC device in a transponder device connected to the OXC device using an optical transmission line, and this determination is implemented at low cost. [Solution] An optical transmission system (10A) is configured by connecting a plurality of OXC devices (14A) using optical fibers (16) between transponder devices (15A1) that relay optical signals transmitted to/from terminals (19a, 19b). The OXC device (14A) includes an OSC part (4d1) and a monitoring control part (4e1). The OSC part (4d1) outputs wavelength information on an optical signal in which optical input interruption has occurred and path information on a path of an optical fiber (16) in which the optical input interruption has occurred, at the time of detecting the optical input interruption from the optical fiber (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Takechi, Katsuhiro Araya, Masatoshi Namiki, Hiroki Kawahara, Takeshi Seki
  • Publication number: 20230103537
    Abstract: A communication system includes counter devices forming a pair and a plurality of switch devices, which are network relay devices connecting the counter devices. A traffic bypass unit of each of the switch devices transmits a part of traffic of a multi-chassis link-aggregation group to the other switch device via a bridge port when a traffic amount per effective communication port in the own device is larger than a traffic amount per effective communication port in the other switch device by a threshold or more in the multi-chassis link-aggregation group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki MAEDA, Hiroto TAKECHI, Katsuhiro ARAYA, Masatoshi NAMIKI, Yasutaka SUGANO, Masahiro YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20220358526
    Abstract: A part information management device (10) includes: a part setting information acquirement unit (111) that acquires, as part setting information, information for identifying parts set in apparatuses; a market data acquirement unit (112) that acquires, for each of the parts, market data related to a part change of the part; a risk estimation unit (114) that estimates a risk of a silent change by a predetermined estimation algorithm with use of the market data, the risk of the silent change indicating that the part is changed; and a part information generation unit (113) that generates part information with the part setting information acquired for each of the parts and the estimated risk of the silent change corresponding to each other and stores the part information in a storage unit (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro YOKOTA, Masatoshi NAMIKI, Hiroto TAKECHI, Katsuhiro ARAYA, Masaaki INAMI, Daisaku SHIMAZAKI, Hideki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220353206
    Abstract: A transmission device (10) includes a flow table (11) that stores identification information about an uninterruptible target flow; a transmission-side identification unit (12) that identifies whether a received packet is from the target flow or a non-target flow based on whether the received packet matches the identification information about the target flow stored in the flow table (11); a tag application unit (13) that applies, to packets from the target flow, an uninterruptible identifier indicating that the packets are from the target flow and a sequence number for distinguishing the packets from other packets; and a branch unit (14) that branches the packets from the target flow processed by the tag application unit (13) into packets to be transferred to an active path (41) among redundant routes and packets to be transferred to a backup path (42) among the redundant routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroto TAKECHI, Hideki MAEDA, Daisaku SHIMAZAKI, Masaaki INAMI, Katsuhiro ARAYA, Masatoshi NAMIKI, Masahiro YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 11469966
    Abstract: [Problem] A transmission system, an apparatus management server, a failure management method, and a program enabling the cause of a failure associated with a silent change of an article to be swiftly identified are provided. [Solution] An apparatus management server 100 of a transmission system includes a collection unit configured to collect history information on an introduction instance of articles to an optical transmission apparatus 10 and an information analysis unit 130 configured to visualize and display, based on the history information collected, a graph in which a starting date of use for each of the articles is associated with the number of introductions of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Minato, Masahiro Yokota, Masatoshi Namiki, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220286762
    Abstract: A monitoring control unit (22) of an OXC (20d) stores a management table (22a) in which pieces of information regarding a modulation mode, an FEC, and a frame mode of an optical signal are associated with each other, and sequentially changes the modulation mode, the FEC, and the frame mode according to the management table (22a) upon an LOS alert from a relay-side optical input/output unit (24) or an LOF alert from a DSP (25) being input thereto. Upon successfully receiving an appropriate optical signal according to the change, the monitoring control unit (22) acquires transmission source information included in the optical signal, and detects an occurrence of erroneous connection of an optical transmission line in an OXC (20g), which serves as a relay apparatus, when the acquired transmission source information indicates an optical cross-connect apparatus that is a transmission source different from an original transmission source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Masatoshi Namiki, Masahiro YOKOTA, Hiroki Kawahara, Hiroto TAKECHI, Katsuhiro Araya, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11411879
    Abstract: A management device of a transmission system includes a new path information input unit, a statistical information collecting unit that collects statistical information of actual traffic from nodes, and an uninterruptible path designing unit that calculates a delay fluctuation in an entire path with respect to a fluctuation for each section of the path, and designs a path in which the calculated delay fluctuation is smaller than a maximum fluctuation amount according to a buffering amount in the reception node as an uninterruptible path, a path information setting unit that updates path information of the path and stores the updated path information in an existing path information storage unit, and sets a bandwidth permitted in a node constituting the path in the node, and a notification unit that notifies a user of a path that was not designed as the uninterruptible path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Namiki, Masahiro Yokota, Yuji Minato, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220046341
    Abstract: [Problem] whether optical input interruption detected by an OXC device is due to an external failure from an upstream side or an internal failure of the OXC device in a transponder device connected to the OXC device using an optical transmission line, and this determination is implemented at low cost. [Solution] An optical transmission system (10A) is configured by connecting a plurality of OXC devices (14A) using optical fibers (16) between transponder devices (15A1) that relay optical signals transmitted to/from terminals (19a, 19b). The OXC device (14A) includes an OSC part (4d1) and a monitoring control part (4e1). The OSC part (4d1) outputs wavelength information on an optical signal in which optical input interruption has occurred and path information on a path of an optical fiber (16) in which the optical input interruption has occurred, at the time of detecting the optical input interruption from the optical fiber (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroto TAKECHI, Katsuhiro Araya, Masatoshi Namiki, Hiroki Kawahara, Takeshi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20210281489
    Abstract: [Problem] A transmission system, an apparatus management server, a failure management method, and a program enabling the cause of a failure associated with a silent change of an article to be swiftly identified are provided. [Solution] An apparatus management server 100 of a transmission system includes a collection unit configured to collect history information on an introduction instance of articles to an optical transmission apparatus 10 and an information analysis unit 130 configured to visualize and display, based on the history information collected, a graph in which a starting date of use for each of the articles is associated with the number of introductions of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Minato, Masahiro Yokota, Masatoshi Namiki, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210264352
    Abstract: [Problem] Inventory information about a network device can be known without vendor intervention. [Solution] The network device information management apparatus 20 includes: a log data acquisition unit configured to acquire log data from each of the plurality of devices 40, the log data including information about components 42 of the plurality of devices; and an inventory information estimation unit configured to exclude a common portion of the log data before and after registration of the component 42 to extract a component configuration indicating information about the component 42 newly registered to the device 40, compare the extracted component configuration with the component configuration extracted from a component 42 registered to another device 40, estimate the common portion as inventory information, and store the estimated inventory information in storage means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro Yokota, Masatoshi Namiki, Yuji Minato, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210266266
    Abstract: [Problem] A management device for a transmission system and a designing method for a transmission system which enable flexible bandwidth designing according to conditions of paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Masatoshi Namiki, Masahiro Yokota, Yuji Minato, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda