Patents Assigned to Toshiba Solutions Corporation
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Patent number: 10187207Abstract: According to one embodiment, a re-encryption key generator which generates the re-encryption key based on the first private key, the second re-encryption key generation key, and a plurality of random numbers. The second re-encryption key generation key comprises a plurality of system-specific values and the second private key. The re-encryption key includes an exponent having a numerator portion and a denominator portion or a scalar having a numerator portion and a denominator portion. The numerator portion is in form of a linear coupling of the second private key on which at least one of a plurality of private values specifying relations between the system-specific values and the random numbers is allowed to act. The denominator portion is the first private key.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryotaro Hayashi, Tatsuyuki Matsushita
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Patent number: 10185735Abstract: A distributed database system accesses data by using management information managed by another data store, and accelerates a timing to update a data record having high access frequency. Thereby the latest data can be easily acquired. A distributed database system according to one embodiment comprises a distributed database including a plurality of nodes that stores data, and a data management device that manages the data stored in the plurality of nodes. Each of the nodes comprises a data storage unit that stores the data related to a time stamp representing a time when the data is stored and a key identifying the data, a data update unit that updates the data, a data sending unit acquires the data stored in the data storage unit, and a data update promotion unit that requests the data update unit to update the acquired data when the acquired data is not latest data.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Michiyo Ikegami
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Patent number: 10185716Abstract: Upon receiving a medium storage request from a client apparatus, an information management server apparatus according to an embodiment evaluates, based on at least one policy file read out based on at least one parent management ID in the medium storage request and user information in the medium storage request, whether medium storage responding to the medium storage request is possible. Upon evaluating that the medium storage is possible, the information management server apparatus creates composite access control which do not violate any management rules included in the at least one policy file.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Miyazaki, Tatsuro Ikeda, Tomoaki Morijiri
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Patent number: 10178081Abstract: An authentication system according to an embodiment is provided with a service providing apparatus, an IDaaS corporation apparatus, and an authentication providing apparatus. Based on the user ID and SSO request transmitted from the user terminal, the authentication providing apparatus executes authentication processing for the user. If the result of the authentication processing indicates success, the IDaaS corporation apparatus having SSO account information including the SSO account identifier identical to the user ID, permits SSO authentication to be executed for the service identified by the service account identifier included in the service account information associated with the SSO account information. The service providing apparatus transmits information related to the service to the user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Rieko Tsurumi, Akio Nishimura, Tatsuro Ikeda
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Patent number: 10162875Abstract: According to an embodiment, database system includes nodes that communicate with each other to elect one node among the nodes, serving as a management device. The management device includes first and second assigning units. Depending on change in state of each node, the first assigning unit assigns a first node storing data pieces and receiving an access request to the data pieces, and assigns a second node storing the data pieces and serving as a backup node for the first node, and instructs each node to perform operations according to assignment. Depending on the state of nodes and a change in assignment state of the first and second nodes, the second assigning unit assigns a third node as a candidate node to serve as the first or second node, and instructs each node to make preparation for causing the third node to operate as the first or second node.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Masakazu Hattori
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Patent number: 10165086Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing system includes a client apparatus and three or more server apparatuses that each store data. The server apparatus includes a first storage, a receiver, a generator, a selector, a transmitter, and a changer. When the number of requests indicating identical changes among the requests of the data candidates is larger than a first threshold, the selector selects one of the requests indicating identical changes, and sets the state of the selected request to a second state. The transmitter transmits the data candidate including the selected request to one or more server apparatuses. When the number of requests in the second state among the requests of the data candidates is larger than a second threshold, the changer updates the history data and changes the data by using one of the data candidates including the requests in the second state.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro Endo
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Patent number: 10162719Abstract: According to an embodiment, an ordering device determines a processing order of pieces of data in each computer in a multiplex system. The device includes a preliminary elector and a confidence elector. The preliminary elector is configured to generate, when a vote having the current order number, the current round number, and a nominated state is acquired from a primary computer, a vote that includes data included in the acquired vote, the current order number, a round number following the current round number, and a winning-assured state. The confidence elector is configured to determine, when a vote having the current order number, the current round number, and the winning-assured state is acquired for identical data from each of a threshold or more of the computers, data included in the acquired vote to be data to be processed at the current order number.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro Endo
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Publication number: 20180348741Abstract: A manufacturing line includes a receiving unit that receives sensor data indicative of a measured value by a sensor provided near a manufacturing device constituting a manufacturing line, a sensor determining unit that determines whether the measured value indicated by the sensor data exceeds a first sensor threshold value indicative of a predetermined range, and a notifying unit that sends a sensor abnormality notification, which notifies a user of the client terminal that the manufacturing device malfunctions, in a case where the sensor determining unit determines that the measured value exceeds the first sensor threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Katsumi MAENOSONO, Noriyuki ARAI, Satoshi MAESUGI, Yukiteru NOZAWA, Yuusuke NARASAKO, Hisanori HATA
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Patent number: 10116439Abstract: According to one embodiment, an encryption device encrypts each of numerical values based on an encryption key, and generates encrypted data. On the basis of each of the encrypted data, a computation device generates a primary computation result corresponding to data in which a computation result of an expression that has added and subtracted each of the numerical values is encrypted. On the basis of the primary computation result, a secondary computation key and random numbers, a computation assist device generates a secondary computation result. The computation device generates a tertiary computation result based on the secondary computation result and a tertiary computation key, and decides the magnitude relation between a minuend and a subtrahend in the expression based on the tertiary computation result.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masanobu Koike, Ryotaro Hayashi, Tatsuyuki Matsushita
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Patent number: 10095439Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tiered storage system includes first and second storage devices having access speeds different from each other, and a storage controller. The storage controller manages first and second access frequency statistical values. The first access frequency statistical value corresponds to a state in which data of a respective one of logical chunks is located on the first storage device, and the second access frequency statistical value corresponds to a state in which data of the respective one is located on the second storage device. The storage controller determines whether it is necessary to change the location state of the data of the respective one, based on the first and second access frequency statistical values of the respective logical chunks.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Solutions CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Ono
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Patent number: 10089364Abstract: An item recommendation device includes a context information generator and a ranker. The context information generator generates and outputs context information including user intention by performing semantic analysis on a natural language request which is input. The ranker ranks candidates of items to be presented to a user based on the context information, user information representing an attribute of the user, and history information representing item usage history of the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Shinichiro Hamada
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Patent number: 10078672Abstract: According to an embodiment, a search device includes a first storage to store therein a keyword group generated by grouping keyword candidates which are to be candidates for a search keyword according to a rule set in advance; a first acquisition unit to acquire a first recommended keyword which is the keyword candidate partially including an input string not yet been entered; a second acquisition unit to acquire a second recommended keyword which is included in the keyword group to which the first recommended keyword belongs and which is the keyword candidate other than the first recommended keyword; an output unit to output a search screen for displaying the first recommended keyword and the second recommended keyword in a selectable way; and a search unit to perform a search with the first recommended keyword or the second recommended keyword selected on the search screen as the search keyword.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignees: TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru Nakano, Toshihiko Manabe, Tomoharu Kokubu, Masumi Inaba
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Patent number: 10073961Abstract: An authentication system of an embodiment includes a control device, a user terminal, and a service providing device. The control device includes a storage unit, an information acquisition unit, an authentication processing unit, and a control management unit. The information acquisition unit acquires the authentication element for authentication.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Pakin Osotkraphun, Tatsuro Ikeda
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Patent number: 10062163Abstract: [PROBLEM] To assist in improvement of health and beauty of a user based on collected health and beauty statuses of the user and statuses of actions regarding health and beauty performed by the user. [SOLVING MEANS] A health information system according to embodiments is a system including a measurement apparatus configured to measure a health and beauty status of a user, an action status acquirement apparatus configured to acquire a history of actions regarding health and beauty performed by the user, and a management apparatus connected over a network to the measurement apparatus and the action status acquirement apparatus. The management apparatus associates health and beauty measurement information with the history of actions and stores the health and beauty measurement information and the history of actions of the user daily in time sequence.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Solutions CorporationInventor: Shingo Miyazaki
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Patent number: 10037161Abstract: According to one embodiment, a deduplication controller in a tiered storage system excludes data duplication physical chunk by physical chunk. Based on the input/output statistics of logical chunks, a tiering controller in the system acquires the input/output statistics of physical chunks, each of which is allocated to one or more of the logical chunks. Based on the input/output statistics of the physical chunks, the tiering controller further executes at least an operation of relocating the data of a physical chunk in a first storage device to a physical chunk in a second storage device that is lower in access speed, or an operation of relocating the data of a physical chunk in the second storage device to a physical chunk in the first storage device.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Takaaki Imaeda
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Patent number: 10025789Abstract: A data analyzing apparatus of an embodiment generates a format variation, analytical algorithm name, and analytical parameter not stored in a first storage device, and executes analysis. The data analyzing apparatus determines whether the application accuracy is lower than the knowledge model accuracy. If the determination result is “not lower”, the data analyzing apparatus reactivates a format variation generating device and an analytical parameter generating device. If the determination result is “lower”, the data analyzing apparatus reads out a format variation and knowledge model name associated with the highest priority order in the first storage device, and executes analysis.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Nishi, Shigeru Matsumoto, Shozo Isobe, Hideki Iwasaki, Shigeaki Sakurai, Kyoko Makino, Rumi Hayakawa, Seiji Egawa
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Patent number: 10007666Abstract: According to an embodiment, a structured document management device includes a query data receiving unit; a structural condition dividing unit; a structural condition rewriting unit; and a query execution unit. The query data receiving unit is configured to receive query data for searching a structured document. The structural condition dividing unit is configured to divide the query data into elements including a structural condition. The structural condition rewriting unit is configured to rewrite the structural condition into a rewritten query when a type of the structural condition is other than a descendant structural condition. The rewritten query is predetermined to include a joining process with a descendant structural condition so as not to affect structural conditions appearing before and after the structural condition. The query execution unit is configured to output a search result in response to query data that includes the structural condition and the rewritten query.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignees: TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yosuke Kuroda, Minoru Inata, Masakazu Hattori
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Patent number: 10003209Abstract: [PROBLEM] To provide a technology of effectively using supplied electric power through adjustment of a charge schedule period of an EV. [SOLVING MEANS] A charge period adjusting apparatus according to embodiments includes an acquiring section and a control section. The acquiring section is configured to acquire a power supply schedule amount of an electric system including a charger connected during charge of an electric vehicle. The control section is configured to set a charge period such that the electric vehicle is charged by the charger in a time frame in which the power supply schedule amount acquired by the acquiring section exceeds a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Yamaguchi, Kazuya Irisawa, Mitsuyoshi Akiyama
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Patent number: 10002122Abstract: Provided is a knowledge extracting apparatus for extracting knowledge information related to a knowledge-extraction target from an electronic document distributed continually in a state where the electronic document is not associated with the knowledge-information extraction target. A knowledge extracting apparatus according to one embodiment is a knowledge extracting apparatus including: an information receiving section for receiving an electronic document; a knowledge extracting section for extracting a concept from the electronic document based on a target word to extract knowledge information and a clue word to extract knowledge information and forming knowledge information in which the concept thus extracted and the target word are associated with each other; a storage section for storing the knowledge information thus extracted; and an information analysis section for, after the knowledge information is stored, analyzing the electronic document based on the knowledge information in the storage section.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoko Makino, Shigeaki Sakurai, Shigeru Matsumoto, Shozo Isobe, Kazuyoshi Nishi, Yoshimi Saito, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Yoshinori Masaoka
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Publication number: 20180150250Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tiered storage system includes a first storage device, a second storage device and a storage controller. The storage controller determines, when a range of an access request to a logical unit extends over some of logical extents in the logical unit, that these logical extents are correlated with each other. The storage controller transfers data of a set of the correlated logical extents as one extent group collectively in units of physical extents between the first storage device and the second storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Tomofumi HASEGAWA