Patents by Inventor Hideaki Sugimoto

Hideaki Sugimoto 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: 11805082
    Abstract: A message providing device includes a processor that is programmed to act as: an entry unit that causes a software robot application that exchanges a message with a user, to enter a messaging service in which a message is exchanged between users; an execution controller that performs a control in accordance with the message from the user so that a specific process is executed by the software robot application; and a leaving controller that causes the software robot application to leave the messaging service after the specific process is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Xiaojing Zhang, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Yu Mishima, Hideaki Sugimoto, Shiori Oikawa
  • Patent number: 11797245
    Abstract: A message providing device includes: a reception unit that receives, for each user, a request for a registration of an association between (i) a software robot program operating on a message service for an exchange of messages among users and exchanging messages with the user and (ii) an external device; and a registration unit that provides a single user with plural software robot programs in each of which operation setting information of the software robot program is preset, and registers an external device in each of the plural software robot programs in association with each other according to the request from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Yu Mishima, Nozomi Noguchi, Shiori Oikawa, Xiaojing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11537331
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a section that detects posts of an output instruction and an output target from a user in a chat room, a registration section that registers the output target as an output target corresponding to the user or the chat room, in a case where identification information of an output device is not registered for the user or the chat room when the post of the output target is detected, and a control section that performs control of inputting a post of requesting registration of the output device from the user into the chat room in a case where the identification information of the output device is not registered for the user or the chat room when the post of the output instruction is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Hideaki Sugimoto, Nozomi Noguchi, Shigeo Miyata, Yu Mishima
  • Patent number: 11451677
    Abstract: A control device includes an execution control unit that performs control to execute specific processing based on information posted by a user in a talk room in which each of plural participating users is able to post and view information, in which the execution control unit provides notification regarding execution of the specific processing to only some of the plural users according to predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Nozomi Noguchi, Hideaki Sugimoto, Yu Mishima, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi
  • Publication number: 20220229613
    Abstract: A message providing device includes: a reception unit that receives, for each user, a request for a registration of an association between (i) a software robot program operating on a message service for an exchange of messages among users and exchanging messages with the user and (ii) an external device; and a registration unit that provides a single user with plural software robot programs in each of which operation setting information of the software robot program is preset, and registers an external device in each of the plural software robot programs in association with each other according to the request from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Shigeo MIYATA, Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI, Yu MISHIMA, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Shiori OIKAWA, Xiaojing ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11374891
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a receiving unit, a first controller, and a second controller. The receiving unit receives an instruction to execute a predetermined process corresponding to a post posted on a space provided by a service. The predetermined process is executed on one or more target posts posted on the space. The space presents posts in a predetermined direction in a chronological order. The first controller performs control to execute the predetermined process in response to the instruction. In a case where the one or more target posts of the predetermined process are posted on the space and a predetermined condition is satisfied, the second controller removes at least one post from the space and posts an alternative post corresponding to the removed at least one post on the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yu Mishima, Ryo Matsumoto, Hideaki Sugimoto, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Nozomi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11327696
    Abstract: A message providing device includes: a reception unit that receives, for each user, a request for a registration of an association between (i) a software robot program operating on a message service for an exchange of messages among users and exchanging messages with the user and (ii) an external device; and a registration unit that provides a single user with plural software robot programs in each of which operation setting information of the software robot program is preset, and registers an external device in each of the plural software robot programs in association with each other according to the request from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Yu Mishima, Nozomi Noguchi, Shiori Oikawa, Xiaojing Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220109644
    Abstract: A message providing device includes a processor that is programmed to act as: an entry unit that causes a software robot application that exchanges a message with a user, to enter a messaging service in which a message is exchanged between users; an execution controller that performs a control in accordance with the message from the user so that a specific process is executed by the software robot application; and a leaving controller that causes the software robot application to leave the messaging service after the specific process is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Xiaojing ZHANG, Shigeo MIYATA, Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI, Yu MISHIMA, Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Shiori OIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11297015
    Abstract: A message providing device includes a receiving section that receives a registration request for setting information regarding an operation of a software robot program for each user, the software robot program operating on a message service in which a message is transmitted and received between users, to transmit and receive the message to and from a user, a registration section that registers setting information for a first user in association with identification information of the first user, in response to the registration request from the first user, and a control section that performs control such that at least a portion of the registered setting information for the first user is registered as setting information for a second user in association with identification information of the second user, corresponding to transmission and reception of a message between the first user or the second user, and the software robot program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Xiaojing Zhang, Shiori Oikawa, Yu Mishima, Hideaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11252112
    Abstract: A message providing device includes a receiving section that receives a registration request for an association of a software robot program with an external device for each user, the software robot program operating on a message service in which a message is transmitted and received between users, to transmit and receive the message to and from a user, and a registration section that provides plural same software robot programs for one user and registers one or plural different external devices from each other in association with each of the plural same software robot programs in accordance with the request from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Xiaojing Zhang, Shiori Oikawa, Yu Mishima
  • Patent number: 11237779
    Abstract: There is provided a message providing apparatus including a receiver configured to receive a service request message for a software robot program that operates on a message service exchanging messages between users and that exchanges messages with the users, a usage right granting unit configured to grant a usage right to a user who has performed a specific operation on the software robot program, a permission information providing unit configured to provide service permission information to the user to whom the usage right is granted, and a controller configured to, when the receiver receives the service request message, control execution and non-execution of a service according to presence or absence of the service permission information associated with the service request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shiori Oikawa, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Yu Mishima, Xiaojing Zhang, Hideaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11240180
    Abstract: A message providing device includes: a receiver; and a controller. At least first and second operation modes are operations of a software robot program. The program operates on a service exchanging messages between users. In the first mode, a specific service is executed upon reception of a message or a sticker. In the second mode, the specific service is not executed even if the message or the sticker is received. The receiver receives the message or the sticker from the user. When the received message is a first specific message or the received sticker is a first specific sticker, the controller switches the first mode to the second. When the received message is a second specific message different from the first or the received sticker is a second specific sticker which is different from the first, the controller switches the second mode to the first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Xiaojing Zhang, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Yu Mishima, Hideaki Sugimoto, Shiori Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20210208749
    Abstract: Provided is a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process including receiving an addition instruction operation to instruct addition of a new display element to a screen in which plural display elements are arranged, and displaying, when the addition instruction operation is received, the screen in which the new display element is added in a position adjacent to a predetermined side of a reference display element, the reference display element being a display element which is a reference among the plural display elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TODA, Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Takafumi HARUTA, Shinichi NAKAMURA, Nozomi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200133592
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a section that detects posts of an output instruction and an output target from a user in a chat room, a registration section that registers the output target as an output target corresponding to the user or the chat room, in a case where identification information of an output device is not registered for the user or the chat room when the post of the output target is detected, and a control section that performs control of inputting a post of requesting registration of the output device from the user into the chat room in a case where the identification information of the output device is not registered for the user or the chat room when the post of the output instruction is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI, Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Shigeo MIYATA, Yu MISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200099642
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a receiving unit, a first controller, and a second controller. The receiving unit receives an instruction to execute a predetermined process corresponding to a post posted on a space provided by a service. The predetermined process is executed on one or more target posts posted on the space. The space presents posts in a predetermined direction in a chronological order. The first controller performs control to execute the predetermined process in response to the instruction. In a case where the one or more target posts of the predetermined process are posted on the space and a predetermined condition is satisfied, the second controller removes at least one post from the space and posts an alternative post corresponding to the removed at least one post on the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu MISHIMA, Ryo MATSUMOTO, Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Shigeo MIYATA, Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI, Nozomi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200099800
    Abstract: A control device includes an execution control unit that performs control to execute specific processing based on information posted by a user in a talk room in which each of plural participating users is able to post and view information, in which the execution control unit provides notification regarding execution of the specific processing to only some of the plural users according to predetermined conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomi NOGUCHI, Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Yu MISHIMA, Shigeo MIYATA, Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190317709
    Abstract: A message providing device includes: a reception unit that receives, for each user, a request for a registration of an association between (i) a software robot program operating on a message service for an exchange of messages among users and exchanging messages with the user and (ii) an external device; and a registration unit that provides a single user with plural software robot programs in each of which operation setting information of the software robot program is preset, and registers an external device in each of the plural software robot programs in association with each other according to the request from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Shigeo MIYATA, Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI, Yu MISHIMA, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Shiori OIKAWA, Xiaojing ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190294394
    Abstract: There is provided a message providing apparatus including a receiver configured to receive a service request message for a software robot program that operates on a message service exchanging messages between users and that exchanges messages with the users, a usage right granting unit configured to grant a usage right to a user who has performed a specific operation on the software robot program, a permission information providing unit configured to provide service permission information to the user to whom the usage right is granted, and a controller configured to, when the receiver receives the service request message, control execution and non-execution of a service according to presence or absence of the service permission information associated with the service request message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiori Oikawa, Shigeo Miyata, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Yu Mishima, Xiaojing Zhang, Hideaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20190297032
    Abstract: A message providing device includes: a receiver; and a controller. At least first and second operation modes are operations of a software robot program. The program operates on a service exchanging messages between users. In the first mode, a specific service is executed upon reception of a message or a sticker. In the second mode, the specific service is not executed even if the message or the sticker is received. The receiver receives the message or the sticker from the user. When the received message is a first specific message or the received sticker is a first specific sticker, the controller switches the first mode to the second. When the received message is a second specific message different from the first or the received sticker is a second specific sticker which is different from the first, the controller switches the second mode to the first.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojing ZHANG, Shigeo MIYATA, Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI, Yu MISHIMA, Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Shiori OIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190288963
    Abstract: A message providing device includes a receiving section that receives a registration request for an association of a software robot program with an external device for each user, the software robot program operating on a message service in which a message is transmitted and received between users, to transmit and receive the message to and from a user, and a registration section that provides plural same software robot programs for one user and registers one or plural different external devices from each other in association with each of the plural same software robot programs in accordance with the request from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Shigeo MIYATA, Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI, Xiaojing ZHANG, Shiori OIKAWA, Yu MISHIMA