Patents by Inventor ASUKA UNNO
ASUKA UNNO 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).
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Patent number: 10264073Abstract: Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Isao Kadowaki, Yuriko Nishikawa, Munetaka Ohtani, Masaki Saitoh, Asuka Unno
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Publication number: 20190102167Abstract: A device generates an operating procedure manual for software including a captured image of a screen displayed by the software. An image acquiring hardware unit acquires a plurality of captured images of a plurality of screens displayed by software in response to a plurality of operations with respect to the software. A dividing hardware unit divides the plurality of captured images into a plurality of captured image groups, to each of which at least one captured image acquired in response to at least one operation constituting a meaningful chunk belongs. A generating hardware unit generates an operating procedure manual including, for each captured image group, a captured image belonging to that captured image group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventor: Asuka Unno
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Patent number: 10241977Abstract: A method includes storing, in response to marking by a user of an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area; displaying an icon representing the marked area; conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area; and creating, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together; and combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shioya, Asuka Unno, Lianzi Wen
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Patent number: 10216710Abstract: A method includes storing, in response to marking by a user of an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area; displaying an icon representing the marked area; conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area; and creating, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together; and combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shioya, Asuka Unno, Lianzi Wen
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Patent number: 10178173Abstract: Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Isao Kadowaki, Yuriko Nishikawa, Munetaka Ohtani, Masaki Saitoh, Asuka Unno
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Patent number: 10169210Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a system, and/or a computer program product. An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for associating one or more test cases with one or more source code parts for a test target, or vice versa. The method comprises the followings: obtaining one or more historical data in which one or more modification histories made in one or more source codes are associated with one or more test operation histories made in the test target after the one or more modifications; for each of the historical data, determining whether the test operation history has one or more parts which are identical or similar with those in one or more test cases; and if the determination is positive, associating the one or more test cases with one or more source code parts in the one or more modification histories which have been associated with the test operation history, or vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sakura B. Hisagi, Asuka Unno, Terue Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180374343Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may include determining the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage the one mobile object based on the expected event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno
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Publication number: 20180374356Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may determine the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage, by a predictive environment agent (PEA), the expected event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20180374354Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may manage, by a first computing system, a plurality of mobile objects moving within a geographic space. Managing the plurality of mobile objects may assisting with movement of the plurality of mobile objects. The embodiment may determine whether a first mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects is a real mobile object based on a first sensor information received from the first mobile object. The embodiment may use information received from the first mobile object in managing the plurality of mobile objects moving within the geographic space based on determining that the first mobile object is the real mobile object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Sanehiro Furuichi, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20180374344Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may determine the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage the one mobile object based on the expected event.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno
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Publication number: 20180374358Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may determine the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage, by a predictive environment agent (PEA), the expected event.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10149109Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes, by a first terminal device among a plurality of terminal devices in a vicinity of a user, receiving a frequency of coexistence from each of one or more second terminal devices among the plurality of terminal devices. The first terminal device and each of the second terminal devices each store a frequency of coexistence, wherein the frequency of coexistence shows a frequency that a terminal device which stores the frequency of coexistence and each of one or more other terminal devices coexisted in the vicinity at a predetermined location. The method further includes calculating a mean value of the frequencies of coexistence for each of the terminal devices which are not currently in the vicinity of the user, and, if the mean value is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, concluding that a terminal device is not in the vicinity of the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yusuke Nishitani, Masaki Saitoh, Asuka Unno
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Patent number: 10101170Abstract: Phenomenon data for at least one moving phenomenon that affects travel on at least one roadway can be received. An impact distribution for the phenomenon over a plurality of phenomenon cells can be determined and corresponding phenomenon impact distribution data can be generated. For at least one vehicle, a plurality of candidate routes for the vehicle to reach an intended destination can be determined. For each candidate route, whether the candidate route intersects with at least phenomenon cell impacted by the phenomenon can be determined. If so, a vehicle simulation agent for that vehicle and that candidate route can be initialized. Using the vehicle simulation agent, an impact of the phenomenon on the vehicle can be determined based on the phenomenon impact distribution data. Data indicating the impact of the phenomenon on travel of the vehicle if the vehicle were to travel along the respective the route can be output.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Sanehiro Furuichi, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10067759Abstract: A device generates an operating procedure manual for software including a captured image of a screen displayed by the software. An image acquiring hardware unit acquires a plurality of captured images of a plurality of screens displayed by software in response to a plurality of operations with respect to the software. A dividing hardware unit divides the plurality of captured images into a plurality of captured image groups, to each of which at least one captured image acquired in response to at least one operation constituting a meaningful chunk belongs. A generating hardware unit generates an operating procedure manual including, for each captured image group, a captured image belonging to that captured image group.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Asuka Unno
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Publication number: 20180195876Abstract: Phenomenon data for at least one moving phenomenon that affects travel on at least one roadway can be received. An impact distribution for the phenomenon over a plurality of phenomenon cells can be determined and corresponding phenomenon impact distribution data can be generated. For at least one vehicle, a plurality of candidate routes for the vehicle to reach an intended destination can be determined. For each candidate route, whether the candidate route intersects with at least phenomenon cell impacted by the phenomenon can be determined. If so, a vehicle simulation agent for that vehicle and that candidate route can be initialized. Using the vehicle simulation agent, an impact of the phenomenon on the vehicle can be determined based on the phenomenon impact distribution data. Data indicating the impact of the phenomenon on travel of the vehicle if the vehicle were to travel along the respective the route can be output.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Sanehiro Furuichi, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9998868Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for mobile computing device proximity notification. The method includes one or more processors acquiring location information for a plurality of mobile computing devices. The method further includes one or more processors creating a first group of mobile computing devices based on location proximity in the acquired location information of the plurality of mobile computing devices, wherein the created first group includes a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device. The method further includes one or more processors determining whether the first mobile computing device is within a predetermined distance to the second mobile computing device, and the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device are outside of an area associated with the first group.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shioya, Asuka Unno, Lianzi Wen
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Patent number: 9953015Abstract: A document file is displayed on a display device. A first display unit, which is a unit in which the document file is displayed, is divided into a plurality of areas. From the plurality of areas obtained by dividing the first display unit, a first target area viewed by a viewer is identified. In response to the first target area being displayed on the display device shifting from the first display unit to a second display unit, a decision is made whether to use setting information from the display area when the first target area identified by the identification means is displayed, based on a structure of the first display unit and a structure of the second display unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sakura Bhandari, Ryoji Kurosawa, Yoshinori Tahara, Asuka Unno
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Publication number: 20180101467Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a system, and/or a computer program product. An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for associating one or more test cases with one or more source code parts for a test target, or vice versa. The method comprises the followings: obtaining one or more historical data in which one or more modification histories made in one or more source codes are associated with one or more test operation histories made in the test target after the one or more modifications; for each of the historical data, determining whether the test operation history has one or more parts which are identical or similar with those in one or more test cases; and if the determination is positive, associating the one or more test cases with one or more source code parts in the one or more modification histories which have been associated with the test operation history, or vice versa.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: Sakura B. Hisagi, Asuka Unno, Terue Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180046569Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a system, and/or a computer program product. An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for associating one or more test cases with one or more source code parts for a test target, or vice versa. The method comprises the followings: obtaining one or more historical data in which one or more modification histories made in one or more source codes are associated with one or more test operation histories made in the test target after the one or more modifications; for each of the historical data, determining whether the test operation history has one or more parts which are identical or similar with those in one or more test cases; and if the determination is positive, associating the one or more test cases with one or more source code parts in the one or more modification histories which have been associated with the test operation history, or vice versa.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Sakura B. Hisagi, Asuka Unno, Terue Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180041577Abstract: Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Isao Kadowaki, Yuriko Nishikawa, Munetaka Ohtani, Masaki Saitoh, Asuka Unno