Patents by Inventor Yasuhide Niimura
Yasuhide Niimura 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: 9582649Abstract: An external storage device connectable to an information processing apparatus is provided. The storage device includes: an input/output interface via which data is exchanged with an information processing apparatus; a first storage region where data associated with first and second validity periods is stored; and a second storage region where a control program is stored. While the first validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to one information processing apparatus, the second validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to another information processing apparatus. The control program causes a processor to execute the steps of: establishing connection of the external storage device to an information processing apparatus; identifying any one of the validity periods as a validity period to be used for the data; and executing predetermined security protection processing on the data in accordance with the identified validity period.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sanehiro Furuichi, Yasuhide Niimura, Masami Tada
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Patent number: 8312293Abstract: An external storage device connectable to an information processing apparatus is provided. The storage device includes: an input/output interface via which data is exchanged with an information processing apparatus; a first storage region where data associated with first and second validity periods is stored; and a second storage region where a control program is stored. While the first validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to one information processing apparatus, the second validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to another information processing apparatus. The control program causes a processor to execute the steps of: establishing connection of the external storage device to an information processing apparatus; identifying any one of the validity periods as a validity period to be used for the data; and executing predetermined security protection processing on the data in accordance with the identified validity period.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sanehiro Furuichi, Yasuhide Niimura, Masami Tada
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Publication number: 20120265999Abstract: An external storage device connectable to an information processing apparatus is provided. The storage device includes: an input/output interface via which data is exchanged with an information processing apparatus; a first storage region where data associated with first and second validity periods is stored; and a second storage region where a control program is stored. While the first validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to one information processing apparatus, the second validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to another information processing apparatus. The control program causes a processor to execute the steps of: establishing connection of the external storage device to an information processing apparatus; identifying any one of the validity periods as a validity period to be used for the data; and executing predetermined security protection processing on the data in accordance with the identified validity period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: SANEHIRO FURUICHI, YASUHIDE NIIMURA, MASAMI TADA
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Patent number: 8266247Abstract: A relay processing apparatus for relaying communications between a process for a control program that generates control commands for a terminal and a process for an HTTP server program that returns, to the terminal, a command constituting an HTTP response to a HTTP request received from the terminal, comprises: a terminal request processor for initiating the process performed by the control program upon the reception of a function call from the HTTP server program that initially received the HTTP request; and a control request processor for receiving from the control program a command corresponding to a function call, and for transmitting to the terminal request processor a notification that the command has been received, wherein, when the reception notification is received, the terminal request processor is permitted to return the processing to the HTTP server program, and the HTTP server program is permitted to return the command included in the HTTP response issued for the HTTP request.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yuhji Yamashita, Hirobumi Toyshima, Yasuhide Niimura
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Patent number: 8195895Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling information read/write processing. The method includes assigning a plurality of division areas to a shared storage area for storing a shared object: specifying a division area used for read/write processing in accordance with user identification information for identifying a user; and executing the read processing for reading information from a specified division area and the write processing for writing information to the specified division area. The shared object is shared among a plurality of processes.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sanehiro Furuichi, Atsumi Ikebe, Yasuhide Niimura, Masami Tada
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Publication number: 20100250963Abstract: An external storage device connectable to an information processing apparatus is provided. The storage device includes: an input/output interface via which data is exchanged with an information processing apparatus; a first storage region where data associated with first and second validity periods is stored; and a second storage region where a control program is stored. While the first validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to one information processing apparatus, the second validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to another information processing apparatus. The control program causes a processor to execute the steps of: establishing connection of the external storage device to an information processing apparatus; identifying any one of the validity periods as a validity period to be used for the data; and executing predetermined security protection processing on the data in accordance with the identified validity period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sanehiro Furuichi, Yasuhide Niimura, Masami Tada
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Publication number: 20040153501Abstract: A relay processing apparatus for relaying communications between a process for a control program that generates control commands for a terminal and a process for an HTTP server program that returns, to the terminal, a command constituting an HTTP response to a HTTP request received from the terminal, comprises: a terminal request processor for initiating the process performed by the control program upon the reception of a function call from the HTTP server program that initially received the HTTP request; and a control request processor for receiving from the control program a command corresponding to a function call, and for transmitting to the terminal request processor a notification that the command has been received, wherein, when the reception notification is received, the terminal request processor is permitted to return the processing to the HTTP server program, and the HTTP server program is permitted to return the command included in the HTTP response issued for the HTTP request.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yuhji Yamashita, Hirobumi Toyshima, Yasuhide Niimura
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Patent number: 6662222Abstract: A system management apparatus and method adapted for use in a network system that comprises a plurality of devices such as computers connected via a network, whereby it is possible to automatically manage device information unique to each of the devices in association with users of the devices and subordinate organizations that possess the devices. The system and method additionally allow for automatically creating a database for managing device information of each device that constitutes a network system, thereby reducing system administrator's efforts required for system management operations.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1998Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sugio Ishii, Hirobumi Toyoshima, Yasuhide Niimura, Kazuhito Akiyama
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Patent number: 6298349Abstract: A network system 1 transmits data between a management apparatus 2 and managed devices 3 each connected to a communication network, processes the data, and displays resources of the managed devices 3 in association with users and/or organizations of the managed devices 3, thereby to support system management operations. That is, in the network system 1, the management apparatus 2 displays an organizational map in a tree form that shows employee numbers of users who belong to each subordinate organization (division/section) that makes use of the system in association with an identifier of such a subordinate organization, displays users who belong to a designated subordinate organization in association with the users' managed devices 3, displays resources of a designated managed device 3, and causes the designated managed device 3 to execute a process using its resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1998Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.Inventors: Hirobumi Toyoshima, Sugio Ishii, Yasuhide Niimura, Kazuhito Akiyama