Patents by Inventor Dai ANDO

Dai ANDO 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).

  • Apparatus, method, and program for home device management
    Patent number: 11824676
    Abstract: A home equipment management apparatus includes: an inquiry unit that inquires, in response to a registration request from a user terminal via a wide area network, a house control device that controls a standard-compatible equipment and a vendor-specific equipment connected to a home network about information of the vendor-specific equipment via the wide area network; a registration unit that registers the information of the vendor-specific equipment including at least address information transmitted from the house control device, together with identification information indicating that the equipment is a vendor-specific equipment; a confirmation unit that transmits the information of the vendor-specific equipment registered in the equipment management table to the user terminal and acquires a result of approval, correction, or addition by the user terminal; and an update unit that updates a registered content of the vendor-specific equipment according to the result of approval, correction, or addition by the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Dai Ando, Yoshiki Nishikawa
  • APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR HOME DEVICE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20230291599
    Abstract: A home equipment management apparatus includes: an inquiry unit that inquires, in response to a registration request from a user terminal via a wide area network, a house control device that controls a standard-compatible equipment and a vendor-specific equipment connected to a home network about information of the vendor-specific equipment via the wide area network; a registration unit that registers the information of the vendor-specific equipment including at least address information transmitted from the house control device, together with identification information indicating that the equipment is a vendor-specific equipment; a confirmation unit that transmits the information of the vendor-specific equipment registered in the equipment management table to the user terminal and acquires a result of approval, correction, or addition by the user terminal; and an update unit that updates a registered content of the vendor-specific equipment according to the result of approval, correction, or addition by the
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Dai ANDO, Yoshiki NISHIKAWA