Patents by Inventor Atsumi Otsuka

Atsumi Otsuka 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).

  • Online merchandising system, online catalog presenting method, server, computer program product, and computer data signal
    Patent number: 8103557
    Abstract: The shopping server provides an online shopping service with retrieving information of items handled, relations among the items, user's purchase history, user's request, and the like via the internet or the intrafirm network. The shopping server generates electronic catalogs personalized for each user based on the retrieved information so as to show useful and helpful information to each user. The catalogs are categorized in accordance with the purposes. Some of the categories are fulfilled by the automatic entry in accordance with the item relations or the user's purchase through the online shopping service, while the others are fulfilled by the user's arbitrary designation. The shopping server presents the generated catalogs to the users via the internet, so that the categories are switchable and customizable by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Hanai, Hiroshi Fushimi, Sachiko Misumi, Keisuke Kataoka, Maki Satoh, Eiji Shinohara, Hiroaki Ono, Noriko Yamane, Atsumi Otsuka, Keiko Sakita, Kohichi Yuasa, Keiichi Itoh
  • Online merchandising system, online catalog presenting method, server, computer program product, and computer data signal
    Publication number: 20030139976
    Abstract: The shopping server provides an online shopping service with retrieving information of items handled, relations among the items, user's purchase history, user's request, and the like via the internet or the intrafirm network. The shopping server generates electronic catalogs personalized for each user based on the retrieved information so as to show useful and helpful information to each user. The catalogs are categorized in accordance with the purposes. Some of the categories are fulfilled by the automatic entry in accordance with the item relations or the user's purchase through the online shopping service, while the others are fulfilled by the user's arbitrary designation. The shopping server presents the generated catalogs to the users via the internet, so that the categories are switchable and customizable by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Atsushi Hanai, Hiroshi Fushimi, Sachiko Misumi, Keisuke Kataoka, Maki Satoh, Eiji Shinohara, Hiroaki Ono, Noriko Yamane, Atsumi Otsuka, Keiko Sakita, Kohichi Yuasa, Keiichi Itoh