Patents by Inventor Etsuko Iwama

Etsuko Iwama 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: 7272134
    Abstract: In an Internet telephone connection method, a communication bandwidth is managed by using a bandwidth controller, gateway devices and voice relay routers to monitor communication quality under bandwidth reservation. A communication path under bandwidth reservation is preferentially selected by using gate keepers and the voice relay routers, and the connection of the Internet telephone is performed. A problematic device is prohibited from being selected as a connection-destination device at the time of a call setup and the problem restoration is monitored by using the gate keepers and the gateway devices. Further, a device having invalid attribute information is prohibited from being selected as a connection-destination device at the time of call-setup, and the restoration of the attribute information is notified to the overall network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Etsuko Iwama, Tomohide Sugimoto, Ryogo Honda, Kansuke Kuroyanagi, Yuichi Mori
  • Publication number: 20030235187
    Abstract: In an Internet telephone connection method, a communication bandwidth is managed by using a bandwidth controller, gateway devices and voice relay routers to monitor communication quality under bandwidth reservation. A communication path under bandwidth reservation is preferentially selected by using gate keepers and the voice relay routers, and the connection of the Internet telephone is performed. A problematic device is prohibited from being selected as a connection-destination device at the time of a call setup and the problem restoration is monitored by using the gate keepers and the gateway devices. Further, a device having invalid attribute information is prohibited from being selected as a connection-destination device at the time of call-setup, and the restoration of the attribute information is notified to the overall network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventors: Etsuko Iwama, Tomohide Sugimoto, Ryogo Honda, Kansuke Kuroyanagi, Yuichi Mori
  • Patent number: 6600735
    Abstract: In an Internet telephone connection method, a communication bandwidth is managed by using a bandwidth controller, gateway devices and voice relay routers to monitor communication quality under bandwidth reservation. A communication path under bandwidth reservation is preferentially selected by using gate keepers and the voice relay routers, and the connection of the Internet telephone is performed. A problematic device is prohibited from being selected as a connection-destination device at the time of a call setup and the problem restoration is monitored by using the gate keepers and the gateway devices. Further, a device having invalid attribute information is prohibited from being selected as a connection-destination device at the time of call-setup, and the restoration of the attribute information is notified to the overall network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Etsuko Iwama, Tomohide Sugimoto, Ryogo Honda, Kansuke Kuroyanagi, Yuichi Mori
  • Publication number: 20020120872
    Abstract: In an Internet roaming service, an amount of user information transferred between an authentication server of an uncontracted company which a user does not have a contract with and an authentication server of a contracted company which the user has a contract with is reduced, thereby a load applied on a backbone is reduced. When a user makes connection to the uncontracted company, the authentication server of the uncontracted company registers the user information of the user with a user information table out of the user information received from the user and the information contained in an authentication response received from the contracted company. When the user makes a connection request again to the access server of the uncontracted company, the authentication server of the uncontracted company performs authentication for the uncontracted user by using the information registered with the user information table of its own server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: Takeshi Amada, Yuko Yonekura, Etsuko Iwama