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).

  • Publication number: 20190147065
    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: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10264073
    Abstract: Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Kadowaki, Yuriko Nishikawa, Munetaka Ohtani, Masaki Saitoh, Asuka Unno
  • Patent number: 10178173
    Abstract: Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Kadowaki, Yuriko Nishikawa, Munetaka Ohtani, Masaki Saitoh, Asuka Unno
  • Publication number: 20180336519
    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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Isao Kadowaki, Xueting Lin, Shigetoshi Nogami, Munetaka Ohtani, Terue Watanabe, Fumiyoshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180143920
    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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Hagiwara, Yusuke Nishitani, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Yoshinori Tahara, Terue Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20180143919
    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: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Hagiwara, Yusuke Nishitani, Munetaka Ohtani, Yutaka Oishi, Yoshinori Tahara, Terue Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20180041580
    Abstract: Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Isao Kadowaki, Yuriko Nishikawa, Munetaka Ohtani, Masaki Saitoh, Asuka Unno
  • Publication number: 20180041577
    Abstract: Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Isao Kadowaki, Yuriko Nishikawa, Munetaka Ohtani, Masaki Saitoh, Asuka Unno
  • Patent number: 9405390
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to selecting an object to display from an information processing device connected in a manner enabling the exchange of data to a touch panel having a display function. An aspect includes entering a trajectory extension mode in response to the user moving a finger over the touch panel at a speed equal to or greater than a predetermined speed. Another aspect includes extending and displaying a trajectory of the finger in response to the speed of the moving finger detected in the trajectory extension mode. Yet another aspect includes placing an object located at an end point of the extended trajectory on the touch panel in a selected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nishitani, Munetaka Ohtani, Yoshinori Tahara, Asuka Unno
  • Publication number: 20150169095
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to selecting an object to display from an information processing device connected in a manner enabling the exchange of data to a touch panel having a display function. An aspect includes entering a trajectory extension mode in response to the user moving a finger over the touch panel at a speed equal to or greater than a predetermined speed. Another aspect includes extending and displaying a trajectory of the finger in response to the speed of the moving finger detected in the trajectory extension mode. Yet another aspect includes placing an object located at an end point of the extended trajectory on the touch panel in a selected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke Nishitani, Munetaka Ohtani, Yoshinori Tahara, Asuka Unno
  • Patent number: 8225278
    Abstract: Hierarchical state diagrams are reflected in a tree structure with the initial state of the diagram represented as the parent node, intermediate states represented as intermediate levels of the hierarchy, and final states represented as the lowest level in the hierarchy. Information on the modification(s) on a child or subsequent level is transferred to the parent node. Such information includes quantifying and displaying of the modification(s). Accordingly, content and extent of any modifications to the diagram can be viewed at the parent node without requiring review of different levels in the hierarchy to view modifications to the state and/or transition in such levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Tazoe, Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki, Munetaka Ohtani
  • Patent number: 7996524
    Abstract: An embedded device communicates with another device via an external proxy server acting for the embedded device to control communication. The embedded device includes a communication device capable of communicating with the proxy server, a storage unit storing a state of communication with the other device, an updating unit, a response unit responding to the task with a result of the updating of the communication state that has been performed in accordance with the control request, and a control instruction unit transmitting, to the proxy server by means of the communication device, an instruction for changing a state of communication with the other device in the proxy server to the communication state stored in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Aoki, Munetaka Ohtani
  • Publication number: 20090201944
    Abstract: An embedded device communicates with another device via an external proxy server acting for the embedded device to control communication. The embedded device includes a communication device capable of communicating with the proxy server, a storage unit storing a state of communication with the other device, an updating unit, a response unit responding to the task with a result of the updating of the communication state that has been performed in accordance with the control request, and a control instruction unit transmitting, to the proxy server by means of the communication device, an instruction for changing a state of communication with the other device in the proxy server to the communication state stored in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Aoki, Munetaka Ohtani
  • Publication number: 20080288916
    Abstract: Hierarchical state diagrams are reflected in a tree structure with the initial state of the diagram represented as the parent node, intermediate states represented as intermediate levels of the hierarchy, and final states represented as the lowest level in the hierarchy. Information on the modification(s) on a child or subsequent level is transferred to the parent node. Such information includes quantifying and displaying of the modification(s). Accordingly, content and extent of any modifications to the diagram can be viewed at the parent node without requiring review of different levels in the hierarchy to view modifications to the state and/or transition in such levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Eiichi Tazoe, Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki, Munetaka Ohtani
  • Patent number: 6181346
    Abstract: This graphics system has a geometric sub-system that does not have to take into consideration memory resources for the raster sub-system of the graphics system. The graphics system sequentially receives from a host computer system data sets that define a graphic object and downloads texture data for graphics from the host computer system, so that geometric processing and rasterization are performed on the graphic object for display on a computer screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ono, Yoshihisa Takatsu, Munetaka Ohtani, Takao Moriyama