Patents by Inventor Akiko Okamura

Akiko Okamura 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: 9164652
    Abstract: An object is to allow intuitively understand whether display information displayed on a display device indicates favorable state or unfavorable state for a user. An acquisition unit 11 acquires energy-related information. A communication unit 13 is connected to a display device 3 and an operation device 4. Display information to be displayed on the display device 3 has a stratum structure including first display information as a top tier and second display information, the first display information including at least two categories which express the favorability about the energy-related information, the second display information including plural kinds of information so that the lower tier includes more detailed information. An information generation unit 14 transmits second display information to the display device 3 upon receiving a request from the operation device 4 when first display information is displayed on the display device 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rikiya Masuda, Kiyotaka Takehara, Yoshitaka Tezuka, Kenji Nakakita, Akiko Okamura
  • Publication number: 20130318462
    Abstract: An object is to allow intuitively understand whether display information displayed on a display device indicates favorable state or unfavorable state for a user. An acquisition unit 11 acquires energy-related information. A communication unit 13 is connected to a display device 3 and an operation device 4. Display information to be displayed on the display device 3 has a stratum structure including first display information as a top tier and second display information, the first display information including at least two categories which express the favorability about the energy-related information, the second display information including plural kinds of information so that the lower tier includes more detailed information. An information generation unit 14 transmits second display information to the display device 3 upon receiving a request from the operation device 4 when first display information is displayed on the display device 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rikiya Masuda, Kiyotaka Takehara, Yoshitaka Tezuka, Kenji Nakakita, Akiko Okamura
  • Patent number: 7630317
    Abstract: Included are a network information database for storing the statistical information collected from a router, a user request processing unit for accepting and processing a flow forwarding request from a user terminal connected to the network, a route control unit for searching for a route corresponding to the request from the user terminal by referring to the network information database, a load sharing control unit for executing such a load sharing process as to generate router setting information for sharing a transmission load of the network by referring to the network information database, and a router control unit for setting a router based on the route information determined by the route control unit and on the router setting information generated by the load sharing control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akiko Okamura, Koji Nakamichi, Hitoshi Yamada, Akira Nagata, Katsuichi Nakamura, Seiji Nomiyama, Mitsunori Fukazawa, Nobuhiro Kawamura, Sugiko Itagaki, Takashi Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20090262168
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a flow path substrate that has an array of pressure generating chambers communicating with nozzle openings, respectively, piezoelectric elements arranged in a region corresponding to the pressure generating chambers, a driver IC driving the piezoelectric elements, an array of individual lead electrodes extending in the same direction from individual electrodes of the piezoelectric elements, connection portions, disposed in the respective individual lead electrodes, for electrical connection to the driver IC, and inspection regions arranged in the individual lead electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akiko Okamura
  • Patent number: 7496039
    Abstract: A delay guarantee path setting system, which sets a traffic transfer path in a network, based on a delay guarantee message that requests path setting that guarantees a bandwidth and a delay, and in the system, the network management node defines a weighted value for each link connecting between the nodes according to an ability to comply with a requested bandwidth and a requested delay in the delay guarantee message, and selects, upon receiving the delay guarantee message, a path that complies with requests in the received delay guarantee message, and has the weighted value of a link in the path which meets a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamada, Akiko Okamura
  • Patent number: 7450513
    Abstract: A network controlling apparatus appropriately arranges a generated path every hour with a change in section and bandwidth requested in each time period to flexibly generate a path according to the state of occurrence of requests. The network apparatus comprises a storing unit storing information for management of the network, and a controlling unit controlling setting of the network device relating to a connection of network devices at two edge points in the network to obtain path setting satisfying the quality guarantee request, using a path already set or scheduled to be set, or a newly generated path, by referring to the information stored in the storing unit when receiving the quality guarantee request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akiko Okamura, Hitoshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060050635
    Abstract: A delay guarantee path setting system, which sets a traffic transfer path in a network, based on a delay guarantee message that requests path setting that guarantees a bandwidth and a delay, and in the system, the network management node defines a weighted value for each link connecting between the nodes according to an ability to comply with a requested bandwidth and a requested delay in the delay guarantee message, and selects, upon receiving the delay guarantee message, a path that complies with requests in the received delay guarantee message, and has the weighted value of a link in the path which meets a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamada, Akiko Okamura
  • Publication number: 20050169313
    Abstract: A network controlling apparatus appropriately arranges a generated path every hour with a change in section and bandwidth requested in each time period to flexibly generate a path according to the state of occurrence of requests. The network apparatus comprises a storing unit storing information for management of the network, and a controlling unit controlling setting of the network device relating to a connection of network devices at two edge points in the network to obtain path setting satisfying the quality guarantee request, using a path already set or scheduled to be set, or a newly generated path, by referring to the information stored in the storing unit when receiving the quality guarantee request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Akiko Okamura, Hitoshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20050055436
    Abstract: A resource load measuring method measures load information of resources within a network, by measuring the load information of the resources at measuring intervals and storing measured load information in a storage section, predicting load information of the resources according to a prediction algorithm and storing predicted load information in the storage section, and adjusting the measuring intervals based on the measured load information and the predicted load information stored in the storage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamada, Akiko Okamura, Akira Chugo, Jianping Pan
  • Publication number: 20040184483
    Abstract: Included are a network information database for storing the statistical information collected from a router, a user request processing unit for accepting and processing a flow forwarding request from a user terminal connected to the network, a route control unit for searching for a route corresponding to the request from the user terminal by referring to the network information database, a load sharing control unit for executing such a load sharing process as to generate router setting information for sharing a transmission load of the network by referring to the network information database, and a router control unit for setting a router based on the route information determined by the route control unit and on the router setting information generated by the load sharing control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Akiko Okamura, Koji Nakamichi, Hitoshi Yamada, Akira Nagata, Katsuichi Nakamura, Seiji Nomiyama, Mitsunori Fukazawa, Nobuhiko Kawamura, Sugiko Itagaki, Takashi Iwasaki