Patents Assigned to NEC Infrontia Corporation
  • Patent number: 8189545
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless LAN access point capable of confirming and changing the setting using the IP communication for a target wireless LAN access point positively even when the IP address of the wireless LAN access point is forgotten. The wireless LAN access point, upon receipt of a probe request, transmits a probe response while at the same time starting to transmit a beacon frame required to be periodically transmitted. The wireless LAN access point starts the DHCP server therein at the same time that the process of associating the wireless LAN station is started. The DHCP server operates only for the wireless interface of the wireless LAN access point and the wireless LAN station associated by use of the maintenance SSID. The wireless LAN access point, upon complete association of the wireless LAN station with the local access point, leases the IP address to the wireless LAN station from the DHCP server in the particular local access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Irie, Hideki Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 8184559
    Abstract: In a key telephone system including SIP telephones forming a representative group, a main unit transmits, upon reception of an incoming call for the representative group, a “NOTIFY” message to all of SIP telephones forming the representative group to perform a calling operation. An answering SIP telephone answers the main unit by sending a “NOTIFY” message to the main unit. The main unit transmits a “200 OK” message to the answering telephone alone and transmits a “NOTIFY” message to an unanswering SIP telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Nagai
  • Patent number: 8184568
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of wireless terminals connected to a wireless LAN base station notifies the base station of an address for receiving data by one-to-many communication from the base station when said wireless terminal executes a program using the one-to-many communication in the wireless LAN. The base station records by relating the address notified from the wireless terminal with an address of the wireless terminal for one-to-one communication. When the base station receives one-to-many communication data to be sent out the wireless LAN, the base station converts an address of destination of the one-to-many communication data into the one-to-one communication address corresponding to said destination and transmits the data whose destination address has been converted into the one-to-one communication address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 8166293
    Abstract: When encryption information including an encryption rule, an encryption range, and an encryption key is input to a server apparatus from a local maintenance console in advance, the server apparatus stores the encryption information in an encryption information setting unit, creates an SIP request message including the encryption information, and transmits the SIP request message to a client apparatus. The client apparatus receives the SIP request message including the encryption information. If confirming normality of the encryption information, the client apparatus sets the encryption information therein. After completion of a setting of the encryption information, the client apparatus transmits a notification of the completion of the setting of the encryption information to the server apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventors: Mao Masuhiro, Yasuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20120081878
    Abstract: In an image display apparatus used at a restaurant or the like, a storage portion for receiving articles such as a menu is separately provided as a dedicated part. Therefore, the number of parts increases, and an assembly operation, an installation operation, and the like cost much labor. An image display apparatus that requires no dedicated part and can reduce the number of parts for thereby simplifying an assembly operation, an installation operation, and the like can be obtained by unifying a support portion for supporting a display body and a storage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: NEC INFRONTIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya Koyama
  • Patent number: 8145220
    Abstract: In making a switching by hand-over, it takes a shorter time to redecide a radio base station of destination candidate to be connected that is capable of securing a required radio band, even in case the radio base station of destination to be switched to refuses the connection to a radio communication terminal. Therefore, the radio base station is configured to acquire the service band information of another radio base station, and notify the radio communication terminal of the radio base station information of a destination candidate to be connected to, based on the acquired service band information, in case of refusing a connection switching request from the radio communication terminal performing the hand-over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 8125794
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer printed wiring board including: a power supply wiring layer and a ground wiring layer provided so as to oppose each other via an insulation layer; mounted integrated circuits; and decoupling capacitors mounted in proximity to the integrated circuits and connected between the power supply wiring layer and the ground wiring layer to absorb noise from the integrated circuits. The power supply wiring layer includes through holes for connecting the decoupling capacitors to the power supply wiring layer and has a polygonal form formed by straight lines which link some of the through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Kouya
  • Patent number: 8121592
    Abstract: A mobile terminal, to which a phone number of a private IP network and a phone number of a public network are allocated, detects whether the mobile terminal moves from a communication area of a IP wireless base station of a private IP network while the mobile terminal communicates with an IP terminal connected to an IP-PBX of the private IP network through an IP wireless base station of the private IP network. The mobile terminal notifies the IP-PBX that it moves from the communication area of the IP wireless base station to the communication area of the public wireless base station when the mobile terminal detects said movement. The IP-PBX sends instruction for a gateway device, which connects communication between the private IP network and the public network, to call the phone number of the public network of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 8116565
    Abstract: A reading unit supplies card information that has been read from a card to a management unit by way of a read-out unit. The management unit assigns a high order of priority to card information that has been newly read and stores the card information to which this order of priority has been given in a memory unit. A fingerprint scanner supplies input fingerprint information to a selection unit by way of a generation unit. The selection unit, upon receiving the input fingerprint information, supplies this input fingerprint information to a collation unit and further, selects a plurality of items of registered fingerprint information that are stored in the memory unit starting in order with items having the highest order of priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8117070
    Abstract: A fixed amount sales system adopted in a gasoline stand or the like for preventing operation efficiency reduction which is the case due to independent payments of fuel supply charge and option item amount is disclosed. In the fixed amount sales system, in which the amount of gasoline corresponding to balance amount as a difference of the money amounts of items desired to be bought by a customer among option items (or TBA items) from a preliminarily selected fixed amount is sold by weighing, thus making the giving and taking of small amounts of money and changes between the customer and the shop unnecessary. The fixed amount of money and option items as selected by the customer, are displayed on a menu 22 in the POS terminal 20 for selection by a touch operation of electronic buttons or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20120036390
    Abstract: A single main unit manages information on hardware resources and the like of all main units connected to a network in an integrated fashion. A slot management module, a slot control module, and a physical slot/managed slot comparison table are provided between an input/output control module and a slot interface subordinate thereto. The input/output control module accesses the slot interface by using virtual slot identification information. The slot management module refers to the physical slot/managed slot comparison table, converts the virtual slot identification information into physical slot identification information, and accesses a slot control module corresponding to the physical slot identification information obtained by the conversion, thereby realizing a physical access of the input/output control module to the slot interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: NEC INFRONTIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akinori HIKABE
  • Patent number: 8111841
    Abstract: Using a 4-pin audio jack, 3-pin signal interfaces including the ground interface are assigned with conventionally used earphone/microphone functions (one microphone input and one speaker output), while the other interface corresponding to the fourth pin is assigned with a function of microphone input for voice recognition in high noise environment. This function is made effective only when a connected audio device requires such function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Yukiyasu Ibe
  • Patent number: 8111643
    Abstract: A relay apparatus (100) acting as an access point of wireless LAN watches a packet showing a request of starting communication among the packets to be relayed between terminal apparatuses (101,102) and records the identification information of the terminal apparatus included in the packet. When the number of the terminal apparatuses whose identification information is recorded exceeds a preset upper limit value, the relay apparatus disconnects a communication relating to the latest identification information by transmitting a disconnection command or discarding the packet. With this arrangement, deterioration of streaming communication controlled by an access point (AP) of wireless LAN can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Kurita
  • Patent number: 8096718
    Abstract: A printer according to the present invention selectively comprises, a cutting configuration for a receipt printer for printing a receipt and a cutting configuration for a ticket printer for printing a ticket, as a cutting configuration for cutting a printed part of the paper roll. The cutting configuration for the receipt printer includes a fixed blade mounted to the upper frame and a movable cutter unit mounted on the lower frame to oppose the fixed blade through the paper roll to be driven by a driving source to cut the paper roll. The cutting configuration for the ticket printer includes a hand cutter mounted to at least one of the upper frame and the lower frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Yukio Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 8078782
    Abstract: A single main unit manages information on hardware resources and the like of all main units connected to a network in an integrated fashion. A slot management module, a slot control module, and a physical slot/managed slot comparison table are provided between an input/output control module and a slot interface subordinate thereto. The input/output control module accesses the slot interface by using virtual slot identification information. The slot management module refers to the physical slot/managed slot comparison table, converts the virtual slot identification information into physical slot identification information, and accesses a slot control module corresponding to the physical slot identification information obtained by the conversion, thereby realizing a physical access of the input/output control module to the slot interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Akinori Hikabe
  • Patent number: 8072969
    Abstract: A handover source AP among APs in a system has a RAM 203 storing a MAC address of a VoIP terminal performing a VoIP communication, holding status information indicative of a holding state, and data on the number of in-call terminals. A CPU 202 monitors all transmitting/receiving frames and packets of a VoIP terminal connected to a LAN so as to judge whether or not the connected VoIP terminal is disconnected. When the terminal is disconnected, it is judged whether or not a MAC address of the disconnected VoIP terminal is stored in the RAM 203 and whether or not holding status information is stored in the RAM 203. When the MAC address is stored in the RAM and the holding status information is detected, a holding notification request command is transmitted to all APs. When the terminal is not disconnected, it is judged whether or not a holding notification response command is present in the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ishizaka
  • Publication number: 20110262203
    Abstract: A printer according to the present invention selectively comprises, a cutting configuration for a receipt printer for printing a receipt and a cutting configuration for a ticket printer for printing a ticket, as a cutting configuration for cutting a printed part of the paper roll. The cutting configuration for the receipt printer includes a fixed blade mounted to the upper frame and a movable cutter unit mounted on the lower frame to oppose the fixed blade through the paper roll to be driven by a driving source to cut the paper roll. The cutting configuration for the ticket printer includes a hand cutter mounted to at least one of the upper frame and the lower frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: NEC INFRONTIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukio YOSHIOKA
  • Patent number: 8027463
    Abstract: The cradle and the telephone body are configured to be separable from and couplable to each other. The cradle and the telephone body are coupled to each other with a space interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventors: Tadamine Toh, Masaru Kunii, Jun Tamatsu
  • Patent number: 8026922
    Abstract: A data input device and a display layout method for the same, which permit quickly laying out plural display keys for inputting data by touching these keys. The location of a base key, the spaces between adjacent keys other than the base key and a key alignment parameter for the set/release of the base key are appropriately changeably set, and plural keys are displayed on the display screen. From these keys a base key is selected by the touch, the location of the base key is determined, and other keys in groups related to the base key are laid out at predetermined distances by touching them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: D656119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Taniguchi, Hiromitsu Nakano, Chiaki Terao, Takashi Matsuda