Patents by Inventor Akiko Abe

Akiko Abe 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).

  • Patent number: 10136461
    Abstract: A communication device includes a processor and a memory storing wireless information used for establishing wireless connection with a specific access point and instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the communication device to: search a first-type master station device for a first-type wireless network identified by a first predetermined character string; and search a second-type master station device for a second-type wireless network identified by a second predetermined character string in a case different from a case where the number of first-type target device found as a search result for the first-type master station device is one. The instructions, when executed, further causing the communication device to establish wireless connection with a second-type target device that is the second-type master station and join the second-type wireless network; and transmit the wireless information to the second-type target device by using the second-type wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akiko Abe
  • Patent number: 10089052
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a controller and is capable of communicating over a network with a first printer and a second printer. The first printer includes a first memory storing status information about usage status of a cartridge currently mounted in the first printer. The second printer includes a second memory. The controller is configured to perform: transmitting a request to the first printer, the request requesting to transmit the status information; in response to transmitting the request, receiving the status information; and in response to a specific condition being satisfied, transmitting the received status information to the second printer, the specific condition including a condition that the controller receives the status information. The status information transmitted to the second printer is stored in the second memory and used by the second printer after the cartridge is removed from the first printer and then mounted in the second printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20180074768
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a controller and is capable of communicating over a network with a first printer and a second printer. The first printer includes a first memory storing status information about usage status of a cartridge currently mounted in the first printer. The second printer includes a second memory. The controller is configured to perform: transmitting a request to the first printer, the request requesting to transmit the status information; in response to transmitting the request, receiving the status information; and in response to a specific condition being satisfied, transmitting the received status information to the second printer, the specific condition including a condition that the controller receives the status information. The status information transmitted to the second printer is stored in the second memory and is used by the second printer after the cartridge is removed from the first printer and then mounted in the second printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventor: Akiko Abe
  • Patent number: 9596365
    Abstract: The controlling apparatus may search for one or more access points so as to obtain N items of wireless identifiers, in a case where a first wireless network to which a set device belongs is a first type of wireless network in which a carrier wave having a first frequency is used. A first wireless identifier has been set in the set device and an unset device is a first type of device which is not capable of using the carrier wave having the first frequency. The controlling apparatus may obtain, from a memory of the set device, the first wireless identifier for identifying the first wireless network, select, based on the first wireless identifier, a second wireless identifier from among one or more wireless identifiers included in the N items of wireless identifiers, and execute a first setting process for setting the second wireless identifier in the unset device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20170064756
    Abstract: A communication device includes a processor and a memory storing wireless information used for establishing wireless connection with a specific access point and instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the communication device to: search a first-type master station device for a first-type wireless network identified by a first predetermined character string; search a second-type master station device for a second-type wireless network identified by a second predetermined character string in a case different from a case where the number of first-type target device found as a search result for the first-type master station device is one; establish wireless connection with a second-type target device that is the second-type master station and join the second-type wireless network; and transmit the wireless information to the second-type target device by using the second-type wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Akiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20160094726
    Abstract: The controlling apparatus may search for one or more access points so as to obtain N items of wireless identifiers, in a case where a first wireless network to which a set device belongs is a first type of wireless network in which a carrier wave having a first frequency is used, a first wireless identifier has been set in the set device and an unset device is a first type of device which is not capable of using the carrier wave having the first frequency. The controlling apparatus may obtain, from a memory of the set device, the first wireless identifier for identifying the first wireless network, select, based on the first wireless identifier, a second wireless identifier from among one or more wireless identifiers included in the N items of wireless identifiers, and execute a first setting process for setting the second wireless identifier in the unset device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventor: Akiko Abe