Patents by Inventor Hideki Matshushima

Hideki Matshushima 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).

  • Publication number: 20020152171
    Abstract: A user terminal program (1, 10) enables a user terminal apparatus for accepting instruction information specifying a content that a user wants to reproduce on a predetermined reproducing apparatus other than the user terminal apparatus (STEP 1), acquiring system identifying information to identify a system to receive the specified content from a distributing site (STEP 2), judging whether the acquired system identifying information is included in a compatibility file which includes one or more system identifying information (STEP 4) receiving the specified content according to the system identifying information, if the acquired system identifying information is judged to be included, and prohibiting receiving, if judged not to be included (STEP 10), and writing the received content to an internal memory or an insertable memory of the predetermined reproducing apparatus (STEP 13-15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Ryuichi Okamoto, Hideki Matshushima, Masayuki Kozuka