Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Mimura

Hirokazu Mimura 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).

  • Method and apparatus for detecting a lower level software reusable product in generating an upper level software product from a lower level software product and changing the upper level software product
    Patent number: 5590270
    Abstract: A reverse engineering method for supporting software reuse in generating an upper level software product from a lower level software product allowing the reuse of some software product's among multi-level software products ranging from an upper level data flow to a lower level job flow. The method includes the steps of: generating an upper level software product using a lower level software product; generating relational information between the lower and upper level software products; inputting a request for changing the upper level software product via an input/output interface; changing the upper level software product in response to the change request; and detecting a reusable field of the lower level software product which is not to be changed, in response to a change of the upper level software product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi System Engineering, Ltd., Hitachi Software Engineering Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Gunji Tsukuda, Ichiro Naito, Hirofumi Danno, Kazutoshi Tamura, Hiroshi Tsukino, Hideo Kamiko, Hirokazu Mimura, Akiko Fukuya, Hiroyuki Maezawa
  • Method and apparatus for supporting of making formatted document
    Patent number: 5144555
    Abstract: A support method of and apparatus for making/editing a formatted document including a plurality types of formatted documents having a mutual relation therebetween. An input device inputs beforehand a relation between document forms before a formatted document is made, the inputted relation is stored in a storage device, and a relation between formatted documents is automatically generated by referring to the relation stored in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Keiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Takadachi, Mihoko Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Maezawa, Yoshimitsu Shindo, Ryoji Eguchi, Hirokazu Mimura, Noriyuki Takahashi, Tetsuo Tanaka