Patents by Inventor Shintaro KUNIMOTO
Shintaro KUNIMOTO 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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Publication number: 20230168852Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a management program used in a management system managing terminal devices, the management system including a management device managing the terminal devices, information processing devices performing data communication with the terminal devices, and a storage device performing data communication with the management device and the information processing devices, the management program, when executed by a computer of the information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform: registering, in the storage device, device registration information including: device identification information identifying a connected terminal device that is the terminal device communicably connected to the information processing device; device setting information related to device setting of the connected terminal device; and application date information indicating an application date when the device setting is applied to the connected terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 11561746Abstract: A terminal apparatus including: a communication interface configured to communicate with an information processing apparatus; and a controller configured to: detect a status change indicating that a specific change has occurred in a status of the terminal apparatus; based on detecting the status change, transmit a first notification to the information processing apparatus via the communication interface, the first notification not including change information indicating the detected status change; receive a response transmitted from the information processing apparatus, the response being transmitted based on the information processing apparatus receiving the first notification; and based on receiving the response, transmit a second notification to the information processing apparatus via the communication interface, the second notification including the change information.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 11513747Abstract: In an information processing device, a computer executes a device list download process to download a device list from a storage server. The device list includes a plurality of pieces of identification information corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of management target devices. The computer executes a connection determination process to determine for each management target device whether or not the management target device identified by the piece of identification information is connected to the information processing device via the communication interface. The computer executes a content data download process to download content data from the storage server via the communication interface. The computer executes a transmission process to transmit, to the device that is determined to be connected to the information processing device in the connection determination process, the content data which is downloaded in the content data download process and corresponds to the target management device.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eriko Takahashi, Naoki Yoshida, Takashi Nishizaki, Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 11360727Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program readable by a computer of a terminal management apparatus in a terminal management system where a first system transferring information between the terminal management apparatus and a first terminal apparatus via a relay apparatus and a second system transferring information between the terminal management apparatus and a second terminal apparatus without passing through the relay apparatus coexist, the program causing the terminal management apparatus to perform: when an instruction received from an external apparatus, determining a transmission destination; when the transmission destination is the second terminal apparatus, dividing the received instruction into a plurality of transmission units and transmitting an instruction included in each transmission unit to the second terminal apparatus; and when the transmission destination is the first terminal apparatus, transmitting the received instruction to the relay apparatus without being divided.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Publication number: 20220129216Abstract: A terminal apparatus including: a communication interface configured to communicate with an information processing apparatus; and a controller configured to: detect a status change indicating that a specific change has occurred in a status of the terminal apparatus; based on detecting the status change, transmit a first notification to the information processing apparatus via the communication interface, the first notification not including change information indicating the detected status change; receive a response transmitted from the information processing apparatus, the response being transmitted based on the information processing apparatus receiving the first notification; and based on receiving the response, transmit a second notification to the information processing apparatus via the communication interface, the second notification including the change information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 11190651Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for an information processing device provided with a first communication interface, a second communication interface and a controller. The recording medium contains instructions realizing an application program. When startup option including the address information is not delivered and when the address information is not stored, the control executes a standby process to await input of the address information through a user interface is executed. When the address information indicating a location of a storage server is input during the standby process, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the input address information. When the address information included in the startup option has been stored in the memory, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the address information store in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirotaka Sato, Shintaro Kunimoto
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Publication number: 20210224006Abstract: In an information processing device, a computer executes a device list download process to download a device list from a storage server. The device list includes a plurality of pieces of identification information corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of management target devices. The computer executes a connection determination process to determine for each management target device whether or not the management target device identified by the piece of identification information is connected to the information processing device via the communication interface. The computer executes a content data download process to download content data from the storage server via the communication interface. The computer executes a transmission process to transmit, to the device that is determined to be connected to the information processing device in the connection determination process, the content data which is downloaded in the content data download process and corresponds to the target management device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eriko TAKAHASHI, Naoki Yoshida, Takashi Nishizaki, Shintaro Kunimoto
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Publication number: 20210208830Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program readable by a computer of a terminal management apparatus in a terminal management system where a first system transferring information between the terminal management apparatus and a first terminal apparatus via a relay apparatus and a second system transferring information between the terminal management apparatus and a second terminal apparatus without passing through the relay apparatus coexist, the program causing the terminal management apparatus to perform: when an instruction received from an external apparatus, determining a transmission destination; when the transmission destination is the second terminal apparatus, dividing the received instruction into a plurality of transmission units and transmitting an instruction included in each transmission unit to the second terminal apparatus; and when the transmission destination is the first terminal apparatus, transmitting the received instruction to the relay apparatus without being divided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 11029899Abstract: In a maintenance system, a controller of an information processing device is configured to perform receiving; storing; determining; and transmitting. The receiving receives a set of input information including device information, time information, and setting information via an input interface. The device information specifies a target image forming device. The time information specifies access time to access the target image forming device. The setting information relates to control data to be set in the target image forming device. The storing stores correlation information correlating the device information with the time information and setting information in a memory. The determining determines whether the access time has come. The transmitting transmits, in response to determining that the access time has come, the control data to the target image forming device via a network interface. The target image forming device is specified by the device information correlated by the correlation information.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Yoshida, Eriko Takahashi, Shintaro Kunimoto, Takashi Nishizaki
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Publication number: 20210105373Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for an information processing device provided with a first communication interface, a second communication interface and a controller. The recording medium contains instructions realizing an application program. When startup option including the address information is not delivered and when the address information is not stored, the control executes a standby process to await input of the address information through a user interface is executed. When the address information indicating a location of a storage server is input during the standby process, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the input address information. When the address information included in the startup option has been stored in the memory, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the address information store in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Hirotaka Sato, Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 10963137Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory recording medium storing a program that causes an information display apparatus to execute: accepting input under a pressure in a first range on a screen; accepting input under a pressure in a second range stronger than the pressure in the first range on the screen; determining, from among objects displayed in a predefined position on the screen in an overlapped manner, an object having a highest display order as an operation target object, when the input under the pressure in the first range is accepted in the predefined position; and change a display order configuration for the objects to a first configuration when the input under the pressure in the second range is accepted on the screen after the determination of the operation target object.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 10921923Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for an information processing apparatus including a display and a touch panel. In a case that an indication object is in contact with or has approached a display range of the object image, the touch panel detects a contact strength of the indication object and a first indication position. In a case that the contact strength has exceeded a first threshold value, the display displays a first image representing at least one of multiple kinds of image processing. The computer accepts input designating the at least one of the multiple kinds of image processing in a state where the first image is displayed. The computer performs the at least one image processing designated by the input. The display displays an object image after being subjected to the at least one image processing designated by the input.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shintaro Kunimoto, Ryoji Ban
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Patent number: 10893155Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for an information processing device provided with a first communication interface, a second communication interface and a controller. The recording medium contains instructions realizing an application program. When startup option including the address information is not delivered and when the address information is not stored, the control executes a standby process to await input of the address information through a user interface is executed. When the address information indicating a location of a storage server is input during the standby process, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the input address information. When the address information included in the startup option has been stored in the memory, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the address information store in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirotaka Sato, Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 10771650Abstract: A information processing device may store a first and second image process associated with a first and second moving direction. The information processing device may display an object image on a display. The information processing device may detect a first instruction position when an indicator makes contact with the object image. The information processing device may detect a second instruction position when the indicator moves to the second instruction position, while maintaining a state of being in contact with the display. The information processing device may calculate a predetermined direction towards which the second instruction position is located. The information processing device may execute a first image process on the object image when the calculated predetermined direction corresponds to the first moving direction. The information processing device may execute a second image process on the object image when the calculated predetermined direction corresponds to the second moving direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Publication number: 20200153982Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for an information processing device provided with a first communication interface, a second communication interface and a controller. The recording medium contains instructions realizing an application program. When startup option including the address information is not delivered and when the address information is not stored, the control executes a standby process to await input of the address information through a user interface is executed. When the address information indicating a location of a storage server is input during the standby process, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the input address information. When the address information included in the startup option has been stored in the memory, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the address information store in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Hirotaka Sato, Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 10635440Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores a set of program instructions for a workflow generating apparatus including a processor and a display. The workflow generating apparatus is capable of generating a workflow by combining a plurality of jobs. The set of program instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the workflow generating apparatus to perform: receiving a selection of one job to be added to the workflow from among a plurality of selectable jobs; acquiring input data to be inputted to the one job; specifying, on the basis of the acquired input data, output data to be outputted by execution of the one job, the output data being usable as input data for a job to be executed after execution of the one job in the workflow; and displaying, on the display, the specified output data in a distinguishable manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 10599372Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programs executable by a processor of a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus is configured to transmit files to be executed by external apparatuses to the external apparatuses. The programs, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal apparatus to: transmit a first file, which is a firmware, to a predetermined external apparatus included in the external apparatuses; and in a case that a second file is to be transmitted to the predetermined external apparatus, transmit the second file to the predetermined external apparatus after transmittance of the first file to the predetermined external apparatus has been completed, the second file being different from the first file and indicating information which is usable at a time of execution of a function of the predetermined external apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
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Patent number: 10542162Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for an information processing device provided with a first communication interface, a second communication interface and a controller. The recording medium contains instructions realizing an application program. When startup option including the address information is not delivered and when the address information is not stored, the control executes a standby process to await input of the address information through a user interface is executed. When the address information indicating a location of a storage server is input during the standby process, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the input address information. When the address information included in the startup option has been stored in the memory, the controller downloads the content data from the storage server indicated by the address information store in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirotaka Sato, Shintaro Kunimoto
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Publication number: 20190332332Abstract: In a maintenance system, a controller of an information processing device is configured to perform receiving; storing; determining; and transmitting. The receiving receives a set of input information including device information, time information, and setting information via an input interface. The device information specifies a target image forming device. The time information specifies access time to access the target image forming device. The setting information relates to control data to be set in the target image forming device. The storing stores correlation information correlating the device information with the time information and setting information in a memory. The determining determines whether the access time has come. The transmitting transmits, in response to determining that the access time has come, the control data to the target image forming device via a network interface. The target image forming device is specified by the device information correlated by the correlation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Naoki YOSHIDA, Eriko TAKAHASHI, Shintaro KUNIMOTO, Takashi NISHIZAKI
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Publication number: 20190272129Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programs executable by a processor of a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus is configured to transmit files to be executed by external apparatuses to the external apparatuses. The programs, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal apparatus to: transmit a first file, which is a firmware, to a predetermined external apparatus included in the external apparatuses; and in a case that a second file is to be transmitted to the predetermined external apparatus, transmit the second file to the predetermined external apparatus after transmittance of the first file to the predetermined external apparatus has been completed, the second file being different from the first file and indicating information which is usable at a time of execution of a function of the predetermined external apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventor: Shintaro KUNIMOTO