Patents by Inventor Nobuhiko Sugasawa
Nobuhiko Sugasawa 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: 9170945Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication management apparatus mediates data between an information processing terminal having a temporary memory and an external memory device that is installed outside the information processing terminal. The apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a write request issued by a device other than the information processing terminal for writing the data in the external memory device; a reading-writing unit configured to control reading of the data from the external memory device and control writing of the data in the external memory device; and a delete command issuing unit configured to, when the write request with respect to the external memory device is received, issue a delete command to the information processing terminal for deleting temporary data that is stored in the temporary memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masataka Goto, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Yuta Kobayashi, Shinya Murai, Kosuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 9130957Abstract: In one embodiment, a data communication apparatus includes a plurality of communications units for performing transmission and reception with the plurality of different networks, a first storage unit which stores a first identifier and a second identifier, a first processing unit which performs network protocol processing with hardware, and a second processing unit which performs network protocol processing with software. The first identifier indicates a communication unit which receives a frame, and the second identifier indicates a communication unit which transmits a frame. The first processing unit stores the first identifier in association with a reception frame in the first storage unit, and the second processing unit reads the first identifier and the reception frame from the first storage unit, generates a transmission frame as a response to the reception frame, stores the first identifier as the second identifier in association with the transmission frame in the first storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takahiro Yamaura, Shingo Tanaka, Nobuhiko Sugasawa
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Patent number: 9122779Abstract: There is provided a bridge device in which a reception unit receives first transfer information specifying a read address from an external device; a transfer information storage stores the first transfer information; a first processing unit generates a first command to instruct reading data from the read address of a data storage based on the first transfer information read from the transfer information storage and outputs the first command to the first controller; a data buffer retains the data read by the first controller from the read address; and a second processing unit generates a second command to instruct the second controller to read the data retained in the data buffer, and outputs the second command to the second controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Yuta Kobayashi, Masataka Goto
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Patent number: 9100378Abstract: There is provided a file transfer device in which a determining unit determines, when a first file requested by a user terminal is not cached in a file buffering unit, a second file transferred to the user terminal based on a file cache status of the file buffering unit, a transfer protocol unit reads the second file from the file buffering unit while the file buffering unit reads the first file, a transmitting unit transmits the second file to the user terminal, wherein the instructing unit determines to transfer the first file, based on a progress status of reading the first file, the transfer protocol unit suspends reading the second file and reads the first file from the file buffering unit, the transmitting unit transmits the first file read by the transfer protocol unit to the user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masataka Goto, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Yuta Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9075784Abstract: There is provided a communication device which communicates with a target communication device, including: a communication controller, a general-purpose processing unit, a data transfer processing unit and a starting unit. The general-purpose processing unit communicates with the target communication device via the communication controller. The data transfer processing unit receives data from the target communication device via the communication controller. The starting unit starts up the data transfer processing unit. The general-purpose processing unit receives a data transfer start request from the target communication device. The starting unit starts up the data transfer processing unit when the general-purpose processing unit receives the data transfer start request. The general-purpose processing unit or the data transfer processing unit notifies a data transfer start response to the target communication device after the data transfer processing unit is started up.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yuta Kobayashi, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Masataka Goto, Shinya Murai
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Publication number: 20140324799Abstract: According to an embodiment, a data processing apparatus includes a first generating unit, a second generating unit, a transfer instructing unit, and a transfer controller. The first generating unit generates transfer instruction information that specifies a storage position of transfer data in a data transfer source, a storage position of the transfer data in a data transfer destination, and a data transfer size, when the first generating unit determines that data transfer from a first storage unit to a second storage unit is required. The second generating unit generates fragment-transfer instruction information that is obtained by fragmenting the transfer instruction information into fragments of a predetermined data size. The transfer instructing unit instructs to perform data transfer based on the fragment-transfer instruction information. The transfer controller controls the data transfer between the first storage unit and the second storage unit according to instruction of the data transfer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masataka Goto, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Yuta Kobayashi, Shinya Murai
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Publication number: 20140325174Abstract: According to an embodiment, an access control apparatus includes a determiner and a controller. The determiner is configured to determine whether an access state of a first device to a storage device satisfies an exclusion criterion for access to the storage device from a second device. The controller is configured to prohibit the access to the storage device from the second device when the access state of the first device satisfies the exclusion criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masataka Goto, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Yuta Kobayashi, Shinya Murai
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Publication number: 20140281660Abstract: One embodiment provides an information processing device which includes a clock unit, a file access unit and a setting unit. The clock unit is configured to count up an elapsed time from a prescribed reference time if an origin time has not been set, and to count up an elapsed time from the origin time if the origin time has been set. The file access unit is configured to access a file which has time information given by an external device or the information processing device. The file is stored in a storage device. The setting unit is configured to acquire the time information from the file via the file access unit, and to set the acquired time information into the clock unit as the origin time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masataka GOTO, Nobuhiko SUGASAWA, Yuta KOBAYASHI, Haruhiko AKIYAMA
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Patent number: 8806078Abstract: In an information processing device according to an embodiment, a generating unit generates a descriptor including information indicating an area in a storage unit and state information indicating a state of an entry in which the information indicating the area is stored, and an update unit updates the state information according to at least one of writing and reading of data to the area indicated in the entry selected according to the state information by the input/output unit. The generating unit generates the descriptor in advance before at least one of writing and reading of data to/from the storage unit is started.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Masataka Goto, Yuta Kobayashi, Shinichi Baba
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Patent number: 8725962Abstract: A main memory data rewriting device includes a rewrite condition analysis unit configured to analyze a rewrite condition for target data in main memory data stored in a main memory before deactivation of an information processing device, and create a first processing content to acquire environment data substituting the target data from outside of the information processing device and a second processing content to rewrite the target data to the environment data, an environment data processing unit configured to acquire the environment data according to the first processing content when the information processing device is temporarily activated at an activation time set to rewrite the target data during a deactivating period of the information processing device, and a rewrite processing unit configured to rewrite a region of a nonvolatile storage medium in which the target data is stored with the environment data according to the second processing content.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Keisuke Mera, Takeshi Ishihara, Nobuhiko Sugasawa
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Publication number: 20140095739Abstract: There is provided a communication device which communicates with a target communication device, including: a communication controller, a general-purpose processing unit, a data transfer processing unit and a starting unit. The general-purpose processing unit communicates with the target communication device via the communication controller. The data transfer processing unit receives data from the target communication device via the communication controller. The starting unit starts up the data transfer processing unit. The general-purpose processing unit receives a data transfer start request from the target communication device. The starting unit starts up the data transfer processing unit when the general-purpose processing unit receives the data transfer start request. The general-purpose processing unit or the data transfer processing unit notifies a data transfer start response to the target communication device after the data transfer processing unit is started up.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuta Kobayashi, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Masataka Goto, Shinya Murai
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Publication number: 20140006647Abstract: There is provided a bridge device in which a reception unit receives first transfer information specifying a read address from an external device; a transfer information storage stores the first transfer information; a first processing unit generates a first command to instruct reading data from the read address of a data storage based on the first transfer information read from the transfer information storage and outputs the first command to the first controller; a data buffer retains the data read by the first controller from the read address; and a second processing unit generates a second command to instruct the second controller to read the data retained in the data buffer, and outputs the second command to the second controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Yuta Kobayashi, Masataka Goto
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Patent number: 8588247Abstract: A relay device is provided that includes a reception unit and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives a startup packet including a magic packet, a MAC address of controllable equipment, and a first ID for starting up the controllable equipment. The transmission unit transmits a first electric signal indicating the first ID to all link-downed Ethernet ports.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yu Kaneko, Masahiro Ishiyama, Takeshi Ishihara, Yusuke Doi, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Keisuke Mera, Koji Ogura
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Publication number: 20130238881Abstract: According to an embodiment, a data transmission device includes a processor, a memory controller, an information memory, a generation unit, and an instruction unit. The memory controller controls read and write operations during data transfer between memory devices. The information memory stores transfer instruction information generated by the processor. The transfer instruction information includes positional information of a position where data is stored in the memory device as read source or a write destination of the data and size information of the data. The generation unit includes divides the transfer instruction information into predetermined data size pieces to generate plural pieces of partial transfer instruction information. The instruction unit instructs the memory controller to acquire a piece of the partial transfer instruction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Nobuhiko SUGASAWA, Yuta KOBAYASHI, Masataka GOTO
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Publication number: 20130232314Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication management apparatus mediates data between an information processing terminal having a temporary memory and an external memory device that is installed outside the information processing terminal. The apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a write request issued by a device other than the information processing terminal for writing the data in the external memory device; a reading-writing unit configured to control reading of the data from the external memory device and control writing of the data in the external memory device; and a delete command issuing unit configured to, when the write request with respect to the external memory device is received, issue a delete command to the information processing terminal for deleting temporary data that is stored in the temporary memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masataka GOTO, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Yuta Kobayashi, Shinya Murai, Kosuke Takahashi
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Publication number: 20130067176Abstract: In an information processing device according to an embodiment, a generating unit generates a descriptor including information indicating an area in a storage unit and state information indicating a state of an entry in which the information indicating the area is stored, and an update unit updates the state information according to at least one of writing and reading of data to the area indicated in the entry selected according to the state information by the input/output unit. The generating unit generates the descriptor in advance before at least one of writing and reading of data to/from the storage unit is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Masataka Goto, Yuta Kobayashi, Shinichi Baba
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Publication number: 20130054733Abstract: There is provided a file transfer device in which a determining unit determines, when a first file requested by a user terminal is not cached in a file buffering unit, a second file transferred to the user terminal based on a file cache status of the file buffering unit, a transfer protocol unit reads the second file from the file buffering unit while the file buffering unit reads the first file, a transmitting unit transmits the second file to the user terminal, wherein the instructing unit determines to transfer the first file, based on a progress status of reading the first file, the transfer protocol unit suspends reading the second file and reads the first file from the file buffering unit, the transmitting unit transmits the first file read by the transfer protocol unit to the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masataka Goto, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Yuta Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8320466Abstract: There is provided with a mixed video delivering apparatus, including: a video receiving unit receiving first to Nth encoded video data from first to Nth terminals; a decoding unit decoding the first to Nth encoded video data; a video mixing unit mixing first to Nth decoded video data to obtain mixed video data to be transmitted to a terminal “A” out of the first to Nth terminals; an encoding parameter storage storing first to Nth encoding parameters which are used for encoding the first to Nth videos by the first to Nth terminals; an encoding parameter selecting unit selecting an encoding parameter which is used by any one of terminals other than the terminal A; an encoding unit encoding the mixed video data with a selected encoding parameter to obtain encoded mixed video data; and a video transmitting unit transmitting the encoded mixed video data to the terminal A.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takuya Kawamura, Naohisa Shibuya, Nobuhiko Sugasawa
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Patent number: 8249644Abstract: In a wireless terminal having a wireless transceiver and a wireless receiver which operates with lower power than the wireless transceiver, when the wireless receiver receives, from a base station, a notification message notifying that data addressed to the terminal is existent, the wireless transceiver is turned on to acquire the data.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenichi Taniuchi, Kotaro Ise, Yasuro Shobatake, Takafumi Sakamoto, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Keisuke Mera, Takeshi Ishihara
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Publication number: 20120011356Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication device to be connected with an external device via a network includes a connection unit, a variable resistance unit, and a control unit. The connection unit is connected to the network. The variable resistance unit is connected to the connection unit such that a resistance value is detectable from the external device, the resistance value being variable. The control unit changes the resistance value according to an operation state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takeshi ISHIHARA, Nobuhiko Sugasawa, Kenichi Taniuchi, Keisuke Mera, Yu Kaneko