Patents by Inventor Shin-ichiro Kanno

Shin-ichiro Kanno 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).

  • Storage apparatus and setting method for the same
    Patent number: 7640394
    Abstract: The present invention is a storage apparatus including a disk device having a storage medium for storing data, a controller unit configured to control the disk device, a setting unit configured to accept a setting operation for the disk device performed by a user and configure the setting according to the setting operation, a log information collection unit for collecting, as log information, the setting operation accepted by the setting unit, and a log information analysis unit for performing predetermined analysis processing on the setting operation based on the log information collected by the log information collection unit. The storage apparatus prevents unauthenticated operations by collecting and analyzing the log information about the setting operations, and achieves secure and smooth management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichiro Kanno, Shoji Sugino, Toshimiti Kishimoto
  • Storage apparatus and setting method for the same
    Publication number: 20080071982
    Abstract: The present invention is a storage apparatus including a disk device having a storage medium for storing data, a controller unit configured to control the disk device, a setting unit configured to accept a setting operation for the disk device performed by a user and configure the setting according to the setting operation, a log information collection unit for collecting, as log information, the setting operation accepted by the setting unit, and a log information analysis unit for performing predetermined analysis processing on the setting operation based on the log information collected by the log information collection unit. The storage apparatus prevents unauthenticated operations by collecting and analyzing the log information about the setting operations, and achieves secure and smooth management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Shin-ichiro Kanno, Shoji Sugino, Toshimiti Kishimoto