Patents by Inventor Hidetaka Nakahara
Hidetaka Nakahara 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).
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Patent number: 11652933Abstract: A network device manages a first definition information in which a type of data to be collected in the network device and a first collection condition are defined received from a first client application, manages, after a second client application for transmitting data to a second system via the network is added to the network device, second definition information in which a type of data to be collected in the network device and a second collection condition are defined received from the added second client application, and collects data in the network device in accordance with the first definition information and second definition information. Data to be collected in accordance with both the first collection condition and the second collection condition is collected at a same timing.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20230065096Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a first connection unit configured to perform connection to a first cloud service; a second connection unit configured to perform connection to a second cloud service; and a connection support unit configured to support an initial connection to the second cloud service, which is performed after the connection to the first cloud service has been established. The first connection unit receives settings information including an access token, and a command to start the connection to the second cloud service from the first cloud service, which is already connected, before the initial connection to the second cloud service. The connection support unit activates the second connection unit in response to the command from the first cloud service via the first connection unit. The second connection unit executes initial connection to the second cloud service in response to the command using the settings information without receiving an authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 11537333Abstract: Provided is a client device configured to communicate with a server via a network, the client device comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to: acquire counter information which is totaled according to performing a job by the client device and is stored in the one or more memories; determine whether the client device has been performed at least one job during acquiring the counter information; reacquire counter information in a case where it is determined that the client device has been performed at least one job during acquiring the counter information; and transmit the reacquired counter information to the server.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20220239790Abstract: A network device is provided with a notification setting management unit that manages a notification setting of an event received from a client application that transmits data to a management server, an event collection unit for collecting data in a client in accordance with the notification setting, and an event storage unit for storing collected data in a message buffer, wherein, when a notification setting of an event is received from a client application that transmits data to the management server, the event collection unit collects the target data in accordance with conditions related to data in which the conditions collected in each notification setting match, and the event storage unit stores the collected data in the message buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 11283941Abstract: A network device including a detection unit that detects an event includes a communication setting managing unit that manages notification settings; an event collecting unit that, in the case in which notification information linked to the event detected by the detection unit is present, determines whether or not each of the details of the notification information is a notification target in accordance with the notification settings and generates a message for each of the details that are notification targets by assigning attribute information linked to the detail or the event; and an event transmitting unit that transmits the generated one or more messages to a management server, and, in the case in which it is determined that a plurality of details corresponding to the notification information linked to the detected event are determined to be the notification targets in accordance with the notification settings, information that can be used for uniquely identifying the event as a part of the attribute inforType: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 11188284Abstract: It is an object to allow a device to execute the operation to which a past history was reflected. A management server uses a filter template and an analysis template as templates for executing a process to instruct an information processing apparatus (multifunction machine) by using history storage data in a history storage DB. The filter template is a template in which information showing that summary data is generated by executing a filtering of the history storage data in the history storage DB and stored into a summary DB has been described. The analysis template is a template in which information showing that contents of the instruction to the information processing apparatus are determined by analyzing the summary data has been described.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20210294549Abstract: It is an object to allow a device to execute the operation to which a past history was reflected. A management server uses a filter template and an analysis template as templates for executing a process to instruct an information processing apparatus (multifunction machine) by using history storage data in a history storage DB. The filter template is a template in which information showing that summary data is generated by executing a filtering of the history storage data in the history storage DB and stored into a summary DB has been described. The analysis template is a template in which information showing that contents of the instruction to the information processing apparatus are determined by analyzing the summary data has been described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20210092239Abstract: A network device including a detection unit that detects an event includes a communication setting managing unit that manages notification settings; an event collecting unit that, in the case in which notification information linked to the event detected by the detection unit is present, determines whether or not each of the details of the notification information is a notification target in accordance with the notification settings and generates a message for each of the details that are notification targets by assigning attribute information linked to the detail or the event; and an event transmitting unit that transmits the generated one or more messages to a management server, and, in the case in which it is determined that a plurality of details corresponding to the notification information linked to the detected event are determined to be the notification targets in accordance with the notification settings, information that can be used for uniquely identifying the event as a part of the attribute inforType: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 10908853Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. In a case where a transition from a certain power state to a first power saving state is made, the image processing apparatus stores first time information indicating a time of the transition to the first power saving state in a memory. In a case where a return from the first power saving state is made, the image processing apparatus notifies a management server of an event, which includes the first time information read out from the memory and indicates that the transition to the first power saving state has been made.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20210026575Abstract: Provided is a client device configured to communicate with a server via a network, the client device comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to: acquire counter information which is totaled according to performing a job by the client device and is stored in the one or more memories; determine whether the client device has been performed at least one job during acquiring the counter information; reacquire counter information in a case where it is determined that the client device has been performed at least one job during acquiring the counter information; and transmit the reacquired counter information to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 10884675Abstract: An image forming apparatus compares device identification information acquired from XML setting information received from a connected device with device identification information of the image forming apparatus, and determines an import level based on a comparison result. The image forming apparatus extracts a setting according to the import level using each module of a plurality of applications for the image forming apparatus, and stores the extracted setting in a storage that is used for control performed in each application. The device identification information that determines the import level includes at least one of firmware version, destination information, user editing information, accessory connection information, and license information, in addition to model management number and machine body management number.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 10656581Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a changing portion configured to change, based on a detection result of a temperature sensor, response sensitivity in starting of power supply by a determination portion based on a detection result of a human body detection sensor in a case where a human body approaches the human body detection sensor. The changing portion increases the sensitivity in a case where a temperature detected by the temperature sensor is a second temperature lower than a first temperature than in a case where the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahito Fuse, Masami Hano, Kenichiro Kitajima, Tadashi Fukuda, Shota Soda, Hidetaka Nakahara, Hiroyuki Amano
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Patent number: 10594879Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores an operation pattern of at least one image forming apparatus and setting content set in the image forming apparatus which are associated with each other, an accumulation unit that accumulates history data indicating an operation history of the at least one image forming apparatus, and an output unit that outputs the setting content stored in the storage unit and associated with the operation pattern to the at least one image forming apparatus when history data corresponding to the operation pattern stored in the storage unit is detected in the history data accumulated in the accumulation unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20200073601Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. In a case where a transition from a certain power state to a first power saving state is made, the image processing apparatus stores first time information indicating a time of the transition to the first power saving state in a memory. In a case where a return from the first power saving state is made, the image processing apparatus notifies a management server of an event, which includes the first time information read out from the memory and indicates that the transition to the first power saving state has been made.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 10534597Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is capable of matching setting values among a plurality of devices of which energization states are controllable independently. A receiving unit a request from an information processor, which is provided with a plurality of devices of which energization states are controllable independently and performs an information process according to set data, for update information about set data concerning a device being in an energized state. A determination unit determines whether the set data concerning the requested update information is relevant to set data concerning a device being in a non-energized state. A control unit controls whether the update information about the set data concerning the device being in the energized state is given in a response according to the determination result by the determination unit and to transmit the response to the information processor.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20190007568Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores an operation pattern of at least one image forming apparatus and setting content set in the image forming apparatus which are associated with each other, an accumulation unit that accumulates history data indicating an operation history of the at least one image forming apparatus, and an output unit that outputs the setting content stored in the storage unit and associated with the operation pattern to the at least one image forming apparatus when history data corresponding to the operation pattern stored in the storage unit is detected in the history data accumulated in the accumulation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20180300091Abstract: An image forming apparatus compares device identification information acquired from XML setting information received from a connected device with device identification information of the image forming apparatus, and determines an import level based on a comparison result. The image forming apparatus extracts a setting according to the import level using each module of a plurality of applications for the image forming apparatus, and stores the extracted setting in a storage that is used for control performed in each application. The device identification information that determines the import level includes at least one of firmware version, destination information, user editing information, accessory connection information, and license information, in addition to model management number and machine body management number.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Publication number: 20180284671Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a changing portion configured to change, based on a detection result of a temperature sensor, response sensitivity in starting of power supply by a determination portion based on a detection result of a human body detection sensor in a case where a human body approaches the human body detection sensor. The changing portion increases the sensitivity in a case where a temperature detected by the temperature sensor is a second temperature lower than a first temperature than in a case where the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is the first temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Takahito Fuse, Masami Hano, Kenichiro Kitajima, Tadashi Fukuda, Shota Soda, Hidetaka Nakahara, Hiroyuki Amano
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Patent number: 9973643Abstract: The present invention manages a reset type and a reset condition state, the reset type indicating whether or not a screen reset operation is necessary when each synchronized setting value is synchronized. This information is confirmed when synchronization is performed, and necessary reset processing such as log-out processing is executed if necessary.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 9912827Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores, in association with configuration information of an image processing apparatus, specification information used to determine settings information that is used for an operation of the image processing apparatus and is to be shared between the information processing apparatus and the image processing apparatus, obtains the configuration information of the image processing apparatus receives, in a case where specification information corresponding to the configuration information that the obtaining unit obtained is not stored in the storage unit, the specification information corresponding to the obtained configuration information from an external storage device, and transmits to the image processing apparatus settings information to be shared with the image processing apparatus, which is determined based on the specification information received from the external storage device among the settings information stored by the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara