Patents by Inventor Hideki Takasugi

Hideki Takasugi 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: 20080228861
    Abstract: An apparatus for managing a workflow includes a workflow processing unit that includes a document generating unit that generates a circular document while setting a flow definition to make an approval route indicating a circulation order in which the circular document is to be circulated, and a transmission definition for a mail for notifying presence of the circular document to a client on the approval route, based on requests from the client, to a prototype in an operation application for generating a circular; and a proxy unit that records requests that relates to the circular document and that are transmitted from the client during circulation of the circular document, and that generates a test scenario in which the requests are arranged following the circulation order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Tadauchi, Hideki Takasugi, Tsutomu Okawa, Takao Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20070005611
    Abstract: A workflow-management apparatus includes a print-of-a-seal form defining unit 21 for receiving registration of form information specifying a form of a print of a seal and for receiving a change of the form information, and a print-of-a-seal image creating unit 26 for creating a print-of-a-seal image according to form information registered in the print-of-a-seal form defining unit 21. The workflow-management apparatus can add a print-of-a-seal image to a circulating electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Takasugi, Tsutomu Okawa, Takao Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20060106663
    Abstract: A workflow management apparatus includes a circulation destination specification unit 14 for managing a status of circulation of an electronic document registered by a registration unit 12, and for specifying a next person to whom the electronic document is to be circulated for the next time with reference to workflow information registered by the registration unit 12, and a notification unit 15 for transmitting a notification of circulation of the electronic document to a terminal used by the next person specified by the circulation destination specification unit 14. In response to a request for circulation of the electronic document from the terminal used by the next person to whom the notification unit 15 has transmitted a notification of circulation of the electronic document, the workflow management apparatus allows the next person to peruse and check the electronic document registered by the registration unit 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Takasugi, Tsutomu Okawa