Patents Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20230351281
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that allows a user to easily determine what kind of future scenario AI is outputting. A preferred aspect of the invention provides an information processing device including: an agent configured to output a response based on a state observed from an environment with stochastic state transitions; an individual evaluation model configured to evaluate the response assuming that a part of the stochastic state transitions occurs; and a plan explanation processing unit configured to output information based on the evaluation in association with information based on the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta TSUCHIYA, Yasuhide MORI, Masashi EGI
  • Publication number: 20230350723
    Abstract: A control server checks whether a resource necessary for process execution is present in a computer system. The control server determines that generating a placement plan is possible when relative guarantee is possible, the relative guarantee guaranteeing a guarantee volume that is at least an absolute resource volume and, if possible, guaranteeing a resource volume reaching an upper limit volume, for a reservation acceptance limit, and starts generating the placement plan. In a period between right after the start of generation of the placement plan and right before permission to selection/approval of the proposed placement plan, the control server makes a reservation with relative guarantee that for the resource and the reservation acceptance limit, makes the guarantee volume and the upper limit volume for the resource volume of the resource different respectively from the guarantee volume and the upper limit volume for the reservation acceptance limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken NOMURA, Akio Shimada, Mitsuo Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 11803990
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein provide systems and methods for visualization of power distribution feeder networks. The systems and methods involve setting a limit of objects of the power distribution network to be displayed on a map, the objects comprising at least nodes and links between the nodes, the links comprising at least conductive lines; when the total number of the objects exceeds a limit, selecting one or more subsets of the conductive lines based on one or more conditions related to the conductive lines; and generating a first visualization displaying the map comprising a subset of the objects including the one or more subsets of the conductive lines, wherein a number of displayed objects is less than or equal to the limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Panitarn Chongfuangprinya, Bo Yang, Yanzhu Ye, Masanori Abe, Anthony Hoang, Natsuhiko Futamura
  • Patent number: 11803930
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to supply transportation capacity suitable for movement demand in numerous circumstances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Rail STS S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Minakawa, Keiji Kimura, Tatsuhiro Satou, Michi Kariatsumari, Claudio Giorgianni
  • Patent number: 11803655
    Abstract: A retrieval system includes a first management unit which stores, in a first storage area that cannot be browsed by an administrator of a provider machine, management information in which an encrypted retrieval keyword used for a retrieval performed by the provider machine, and an encrypted ID, which is associated with the encrypted retrieval keyword, are associated and, of the management information, decrypts, and then once again encrypts, the encrypted retrieval keyword corresponding to the encrypted query from a browsing machine and the encrypted ID corresponding to the encrypted retrieval keyword, and a second management unit which stores, in a second storage area, index information in which the encrypted retrieval keyword used for the retrieval performed by the provider machine, and one or more encrypted IDs associated with the encrypted retrieval keyword, are associated, and, of the index information, updates the encrypted retrieval keyword and the encrypted ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Yoshino, Keisei Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11803443
    Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a plurality of drives and has a parity group constituted by a plurality of drives. The storage apparatus stores a hash management table to manage hash values of a prescribed data unit of data of the drives constituting the parity group and a hash value of a prescribed data unit of data stored in another drive other than the drives constituting the parity group. A processor is configured to determine whether a same data unit as a data unit included in data stored in a replacement target drive exists in the other drive on a basis of the hash values, and copy the same data unit of the other drive to a replacement destination drive when the same data unit exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Shota Fujita
  • Patent number: 11796987
    Abstract: Production past record information showing the execution time point of each step is accumulated for each product loaded in a production system. A supporting system calculates, for each step, a retention increase rate at each time point on the basis of the production past record information. The “retention increase rate” is an amount of increase in retention number per unit time. The supporting system displays a holistic chart for a production situation, which has a time axis and a step axis (axis perpendicular to the time axis and corresponding to steps). A display mode of each position in the holistic chart depends on whether a retention increase rate for the time point and step corresponding to the position is a negative value, zero, or a positive value, and a difference between the retention increase rate and a rate reference value (a reference value for the retention increase rate).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Uehara, Kenichirou Kawakami, Yusuke Yajima, Hiroyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11799820
    Abstract: A mobile-side IP address is translated into an intranet-side MAC address, and an IP address for an intranet is acquired. The present invention provides a network system for transferring a packet, including: a first network that controls transfer of data at a first layer; a second network that is connected to the first network and controls transfer of data at a second layer different from the first layer; and a translation device that translates an address between networks, in which the translation device translates the address of the first layer of the first network attached to data transferred from the first network to the second network into the address of the second layer of the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Oishi, Shigenori Hayase, Masayuki Takase, Mikio Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11798410
    Abstract: In a traffic flow control system, communication is performed with a travel control device of a moving body passing through a transportation route and the traffic flow of the transportation route is controlled. The traffic control system includes an entry authority management unit and a communication unit. In a transportation route divided into virtual areas, the entry authority management unit manages entry authority for each area, managing tokens in a number that corresponds to the area, and guiding entry of the moving body to the area by attaching entry authority to a token and delivering the resulting token to the travel control device. The communication unit communicates the entry authority and tokens to the travel control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Katsuta, Junya Takahashi, Takehito Ogata, Wataru Tanaka, Mariko Mizuochi, Kentaroh Maki
  • Patent number: 11798108
    Abstract: Provided is a transportation service planning system including an operation unit and a storage unit. The storage unit stores an evaluation index designated for each of transportation systems, a creation condition of a service plan for each of the transportation systems, and a service simulation condition for each of the transportation systems. The operation unit creates a service plan for each of the transportation systems on the basis of the creation condition of the service plan, simulates a service of each of the transportation systems on the basis of the service plan and the simulation condition, calculates the evaluation index designated for each of the transportation systems on the basis of the simulation results, outputs the service plan if all of the evaluation indices satisfy a prescribed standard, and revises the service plan if at least one of the evaluation indices does not satisfy the prescribed standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige Hiroi, Yujin Tsukada, Nobuo Nukaga
  • Patent number: 11797209
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to a method and a system for storage allocation from a storage pool, the method involving, for receipt of a request for storage through an orchestrator communicatively coupled to a management system managing the storage pool, the request comprising user information and request characteristics information, the request characteristics information indicative of a use type for the request, determining a storage tier from the storage pool for the request based on the user information and the request characteristics information; and allocating a pool name and the storage tier in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Osaki
  • Patent number: 11796989
    Abstract: A monitoring system that monitors a monitoring-target system is disclosed. The monitoring system includes one or more storage apparatuses that store a program, and one or more processors that operate according to the program. The one or more processors determine an estimated value of a monitoring-target response variable of the monitoring-target system on a basis of measurement data included in test data of the monitoring-target system and a causal structure model of the monitoring-target system. The one or more processors decide whether an abnormality has occurred in the monitoring-target system on a basis of a result of a comparison between a measurement value of the monitoring-target response variable included in the test data, and the estimated value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Kojin Yano, Tetsushi Suzuki, Kenichirou Okada
  • Patent number: 11797384
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a storage management system having a processor and managing a plurality of storages, in which the storage has a plurality of types of components, and performs redundantization of a data to be stored by combining the plurality of components, the storage management system has component management information indicating redundancy set for the component itself, and the processor sets a method of data protection of the storage based on the component management information and a request for the data protection for the data stored in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaki Nakamura, Masakuni Agetsuma, Takahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11796980
    Abstract: When the temperature history in a fine mesh is obtained for the entire modeled object, it takes a huge amount of time in calculation. In order to solve the problem, An additive-manufactured object design supporting device, comprising: an analysis unit configured to analyze a modeling process of a macro-region and a micro-region by using a product shape, a material condition, and a modeling condition of a modeled object as input; a temperature history extraction unit configured to extract, from a temperature analysis result of the macro-region, a local temperature history by referring to a database that stores a temperature history of the micro-region; a mapping unit configured to map a structure distribution obtained from a temperature history distribution of the modeled object to the modeled object; and an extraction unit configured to extract a defective structure that does not satisfy a structure condition by using an allowable structure condition as input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hamaguchi, Tadashi Fujieda
  • Patent number: 11797402
    Abstract: A storage system with high availability is provided. The storage system is designed to be provided with: a generation unit that generates information of an association volume which is associated with each volume, on the basis of information of each volume created at each of a plurality of storage devices designated from two or more sites; and an instruction unit that issues an instruction to each storage device, at which each volume is created, to connect each volume associated with the association volume and a compute node which operates a container, on the basis of a request for activation of the container for which the information of the association volume generated by the generation unit is designated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Sugihara, Keisuke Matsumoto, Genki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11797556
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of servers includes a shared information storage region for storing information to be shared with other servers. The servers operate so as to match data of the shared information storage regions with each other. A first server manages a first local database. A second server generates query information for accessing the first local database, and stores the query information in the shared information storage region of the second server. The first server acquires the query information from the shared information storage region of the first server, and stores the result with respect to the query information in the shared information storage region of the first server. The second server acquires the result from the shared information storage region of the second server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Inomata, Masafumi Kinoshita, Hiroaki Konoura
  • Publication number: 20230334282
    Abstract: A data management system including a processor connected to a storage device that stores data usable for learning and inference in a machine learning model, the data management system including a compressor/decompressor for human that compresses and decompresses data to be usable for verification performed by human, in which the processor specifies data that is no longer used for learning and inference in the machine learning model among the data stored in the storage device, and compresses the specified data using the compressor/decompressor for human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20230330731
    Abstract: A wire drawing method includes: preparing a first wire rod that includes a first pipe having a first longitudinal length and a second pipe having a second longitudinal length different from the first longitudinal length; creating a second wire rod that includes the first pipe having a third longitudinal length and the second pipe having a fourth longitudinal length different from the third longitudinal length, by reducing a cross-sectional diameter of the first wire rod through wire drawing; and setting a first difference between the third longitudinal length and the fourth longitudinal length in the second wire rod to be smaller than a second difference between the first longitudinal length and the second longitudinal length in the first wire rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Younjeong Hong, Chengting Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20230334072
    Abstract: A customer inputs a question sentence indicating a problem that the customer needs to resolve, to an automatic question answering system, and the system answers the question sentence. A history of the conversation is recorded in the system as conversation history data. When the system fails to give a suitable answer in a question-and-answer session, the system escalates the question to a support representative. In such a case, the question sentences and an answer sentence given by the support representative to resolve the problem are added to question-answer pair data as new question-answer pairs. The accuracy of automatic question answering is thus enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi MATSUZAWA, Mitsuo HAYASAKA
  • Patent number: 11789613
    Abstract: In a storage system in which a plurality of pieces of control software constituting a redundancy group are distributedly arranged in a plurality of storage nodes, control software in an active state out of the plurality of pieces of control software constituting the redundancy group receives a write request from a higher-level device. The control software in the active state writes data related to the write request by mirroring into a cache memory of a storage node in which the control software in the active state is arranged and a cache memory of a storage node in which control software in an inactive state belonging to the same redundancy group is arranged. The control software in the active state sends a write completion response to the higher-level device, and redundantly stores the data written in the cache memories in a storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Sachie Tajima, Takahiro Yamamoto, Masakuni Agetsuma