Patents by Inventor Shouichi Matsuoka

Shouichi Matsuoka 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).

  • Automatic firmware version upgrade system
    Patent number: 6971095
    Abstract: A reception unit receives resource information transmitted through a network and constituted by a resource for version-up and an application program which applies the resource and stores the resource information in an operation region of a storage device. A decision unit decides whether an application occasion of the resource stored has come or not. When it is decided that the application occasion has come, an execution unit performs a process of copying the resource information in a maintenance region of the storage device and making the maintenance region valid in the next boot-up operation of a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Giro Hirai, Mikayo Kosugi, Shouichi Matsuoka, Yasushi Makiyama, Takanori Shimizu, Kazuhiro Matsushita, Junichi Nagase
  • Computer and computer readable recording medium on which program is recorded
    Publication number: 20010044934
    Abstract: A reception unit receives resource information transmitted through a network and constituted by a resource for version-up and an application program which applies the resource and stores the resource information in an operation region of a storage device. A decision unit decides whether an application occasion of the resource stored has come or not. When it is decided that the application occasion has come, an execution unit performs a process of copying the resource information in a maintenance region of the storage device and making the maintenance region valid in the next boot-up operation of a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Giro Hirai, Mikayo Kosugi, Shouichi Matsuoka, Yasushi Makiyama, Takanori Shimizu, Kazuhiro Matsushita, Junichi Nagase