Patents by Inventor Munetaka Ohtani

Munetaka Ohtani 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: 11443837
    Abstract: Test data may be generated by classifying a plurality of medical records of patients into a plurality of groups, based on at least an execution characteristic of a processing program that processes the medical records, and generating test data including at least a part of the plurality of medical records based on proportions of the number of the medical records classified into the plurality of groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikafumi Yasumoto, Yutaka Oishi, Munetaka Ohtani, Jiayun Zhu, Kumiko Maeda, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Patent number: 11283597
    Abstract: Provided is a method for storing at least a portion of data registered in a blockchain in each of a plurality of node apparatuses, including selection of selecting whether to store data included in a block in one node apparatus among the plurality of node apparatuses, according to a characteristic of the one node apparatus; and data storage of storing at least a portion of the data included in the block in the one node apparatus, according to a result of the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chikafumi Yasumoto, Yutaka Oishi, Munetaka Ohtani, Jiayun Zhu, Kumiko Maeda
  • Patent number: 11087050
    Abstract: An event transition model for producing test data may be generated from a plurality of event records, each event record including an event time of an instance, wherein the event transition model includes a plurality of states, each state corresponding to one or more instances of the plurality of event records, event transition probabilities between states, and event transition interval times between states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu, Munetaka Ohtani, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Patent number: 11087044
    Abstract: An event transition model for producing test data may be generated from a plurality of event records, each event record including an event time of an instance, wherein the event transition model includes a plurality of states, each state corresponding to one or more instances of the plurality of event records, event transition probabilities between states, and event transition interval times between states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu, Munetaka Ohtani, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Patent number: 10996854
    Abstract: In a mechanism for deleting blocks from a blockchain, a retention period (T), a minimum number of blocks (L), and a hash of the oldest block are defined. A participant node creates the new block including a block header. The participant node determines whether a timestamp in an oldest block in the blockchain is older than a current time plus T, and whether a current number of blocks in the blockchain is greater than or equal to L. When both are true, the participant node deletes an oldest block in the blockchain. The participant node adds a hash of an oldest remaining block and an original number of blocks of the blockchain to the block header of the new block. The participant node broadcasts a message announcing the new block to remaining participant nodes of the plurality of participant nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210119773
    Abstract: Provided is a method for storing at least a portion of data registered in a blockchain in each of a plurality of node apparatuses, including selection of selecting whether to store data included in a block in one node apparatus among the plurality of node apparatuses, according to a characteristic of the one node apparatus; and data storage of storing at least a portion of the data included in the block in the one node apparatus, according to a result of the selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: CHIKAFUMI YASUMOTO, Yutaka Oishi, Munetaka Ohtani, JIAYUN ZHU, KUMIKO MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10924265
    Abstract: Provided is a method for storing at least a portion of data registered in a blockchain in each of a plurality of node apparatuses, including selection of selecting whether to store data included in a block in one node apparatus among the plurality of node apparatuses, according to a characteristic of the one node apparatus; and data storage of storing at least a portion of the data included in the block in the one node apparatus, according to a result of the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikafumi Yasumoto, Yutaka Oishi, Munetaka Ohtani, Jiayun Zhu, Kumiko Maeda
  • Patent number: 10739997
    Abstract: In a mechanism for deleting blocks from a blockchain, a retention period (T), a minimum number of blocks (L), and a hash of the oldest block are defined. A participant node creates the new block including a block header. The participant node determines whether a timestamp in an oldest block in the blockchain is older than a current time plus T, and whether a current number of blocks in the blockchain is greater than or equal to L. When both are true, the participant node deletes an oldest block in the blockchain. The participant node adds a hash of an oldest remaining block and an original number of blocks of the blockchain to the block header of the new block. The participant node broadcasts a message announcing the new block to remaining participant nodes of the plurality of participant nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10679182
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for facilitating a meeting is implemented in a server computer and provides a graphical user interface to one or more client devices. The server displays a mind map of a center topic on the clients. The server collects statements of participants, and extracts words and phrases therefrom, to identify topics that are currently being discussed. The server determines whether a transition has occurred between the topics, and then calculates a correlation between the topics that are currently being discussed and the center topic. The server determines a location of the topics that are currently being discussed on the mind map, based on the calculated correlation, and displays an updated mind map on the clients. The server generates a warning on the clients when the server determines that the meeting proceedings are being retarded, based on the calculated correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Kadowaki, Xueting Lin, Shigetoshi Nogami, Munetaka Ohtani, Terue Watanabe, Fumiyoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 10409740
    Abstract: Provided is an operating method of a system including a first data processing module, a second data processing module, and one or more data connection modules that transfer data between the first data processing module and the second data processing module. In an operational state where the first data processing module and the second data processing module can process data input thereto, the first data processing module inputs trigger data to any of the one or more data connection modules, and in response to the second data processing module receiving the trigger data via the one or more data connection modules, the second data processing module changes a reading rule for reading data from the one or more data connection modules. Also provided are a system and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Hagiwara, Yusuke Nishitani, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Yoshinori Tahara, Terue Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190272352
    Abstract: An event transition model for producing test data may be generated from a plurality of event records, each event record including an event time of an instance, wherein the event transition model includes a plurality of states, each state corresponding to one or more instances of the plurality of event records, event transition probabilities between states, and event transition interval times between states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu, Munetaka Ohtani, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Publication number: 20190272904
    Abstract: Test data may be generated by classifying a plurality of medical records of patients into a plurality of groups, based on at least an execution characteristic of a processing program that processes the medical records, and generating test data including at least a part of the plurality of medical records based on proportions of the number of the medical records classified into the plurality of groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Chikafumi Yasumoto, Yutaka Oishi, Munetaka Ohtani, Jiayun Zhu, Kumiko Maeda, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Publication number: 20190265894
    Abstract: In a mechanism for deleting blocks from a blockchain, a retention period (T), a minimum number of blocks (L), and a hash of the oldest block are defined. A participant node creates the new block including a block header. The participant node determines whether a timestamp in an oldest block in the blockchain is older than a current time plus T, and whether a current number of blocks in the blockchain is greater than or equal to L. When both are true, the participant node deletes an oldest block in the blockchain. The participant node adds a hash of an oldest remaining block and an original number of blocks of the blockchain to the block header of the new block. The participant node broadcasts a message announcing the new block to remaining participant nodes of the plurality of participant nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Kumiko MAEDA, Munetaka OHTANI, Yutaka OISHI, Chikafumi YASUMOTO, Jiayun ZHU
  • Publication number: 20190266128
    Abstract: A blockchain processing method and system for verification of deleted data for blockchains. An item of data is deleted from a block of a blockchain by: identifying the block of the blockchain storing the item of data; deleting the item of data from the identified block without deleting a hash value associated with the deleted item of data from the identified block; and adding metadata to a new block of the blockchain identifying the deleted item of data. The metadata includes a block identifier (ID) of the identified block as a location of the deleted item of data as well as the hash value associated with the deleted item of data. The block ID may comprise a root hash in a block header of the identified block, a universally unique identifier (UUID) allocated to the identified block, or an offset from the new block to the identified block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10372636
    Abstract: Provided is an operating method of a system including a first data processing module, a second data processing module, and one or more data connection modules that transfer data between the first data processing module and the second data processing module. In an operational state where the first data processing module and the second data processing module can process data input thereto, the first data processing module inputs trigger data to any of the one or more data connection modules, and in response to the second data processing module receiving the trigger data via the one or more data connection modules, the second data processing module changes a reading rule for reading data from the one or more data connection modules. Also provided are a system and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Hagiwara, Yusuke Nishitani, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Yoshinori Tahara, Terue Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190188086
    Abstract: Creation of a new block for a blockchain can be initiated. The new block can include a plurality of transactions. The blockchain can include a plurality of existing blocks. Transaction storage data can be generated for the new block. The transaction storage data can indicate the plurality of transactions and specify, for each of the plurality of transactions, which of a plurality of computing nodes are to keep the transaction in the new block. The generated transaction storage data can be added to the new block. The new block can be communicated to the plurality of computing nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20190158273
    Abstract: Provided is a method for storing at least a portion of data registered in a blockchain in each of a plurality of node apparatuses, including selection of selecting whether to store data included in a block in one node apparatus among the plurality of node apparatuses, according to a characteristic of the one node apparatus; and data storage of storing at least a portion of the data included in the block in the one node apparatus, according to a result of the selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: CHIKAFUMI YASUMOTO, Yutaka Oishi, Munetaka Ohtani, JIAYUN ZHU, KUMIKO MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190155513
    Abstract: In a mechanism for deleting blocks from a blockchain, a retention period (T), a minimum number of blocks (L), and a hash of the oldest block are defined. A participant node creates the new block including a block header. The participant node determines whether a timestamp in an oldest block in the blockchain is older than a current time plus T, and whether a current number of blocks in the blockchain is greater than or equal to L. When both are true, the participant node deletes an oldest block in the blockchain. The participant node adds a hash of an oldest remaining block and an original number of blocks of the blockchain to the block header of the new block. The participant node broadcasts a message announcing the new block to remaining participant nodes of the plurality of participant nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Kumiko MAEDA, Munetaka OHTANI, Yutaka OISHI, Chikafumi YASUMOTO, Jiayun ZHU
  • Publication number: 20190155968
    Abstract: An event transition model for producing test data may be generated from a plurality of event records, each event record including an event time of an instance, wherein the event transition model includes a plurality of states, each state corresponding to one or more instances of the plurality of event records, event transition probabilities between states, and event transition interval times between states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu, Munetaka Ohtani, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Publication number: 20190155989
    Abstract: Test data may be generated by classifying a plurality of medical records of patients into a plurality of groups, based on at least an execution characteristic of a processing program that processes the medical records, and generating test data including at least a part of the plurality of medical records based on proportions of the number of the medical records classified into the plurality of groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Chikafumi Yasumoto, Yutaka Oishi, Munetaka Ohtani, Jiayun Zhu, Kumiko Maeda, Yoshinori Tahara