Patents by Inventor Hiroki Uchibori

Hiroki Uchibori 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: 11790053
    Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one server and one or more devices communicable with the server through a network. The information processing system includes circuitry configured to: manage a service in association with a device type that can use the service; manage the devices in association with the device type, the devices each being a target device to which a license is to be allocated; and compare a device type associated with the target device to which the license is to be allocated with the device type associated with the service, to determine whether an allocation of the license of the service to the target device is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Uchibori, Hideki Ohhashi
  • Publication number: 20230153400
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable with a terminal via a network to manage a license of a package including applications assignable to a device includes circuitry configured to display a first screen for displaying a device list, the license of the package being assignable to and cancellable from the device in response to receiving a first request, receive a selection of a specific device in the device list and any one of an operation of assigning and cancelling the license of the package, assign the license of the package to the selected specific device in response to receiving the selection of the specific device and the operation of assigning the license of the package, and cancel the license of the package from the selected specific device in response to receiving the selection of the specific device and the operation of cancelling the license of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki UCHIBORI
  • Patent number: 11606361
    Abstract: A cloud system provides services to a user registered in a tenant and includes a processor programmed to issue a communication destination for registering the user in association with the tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uchibori
  • Patent number: 11595394
    Abstract: At least one information processing apparatus includes a circuitry that: receives, as a package management unit, a setting of a role, which can assign a usage authority of an application package containing at least one application, with respect to the application package, and permits or restricts, as a user management unit, a user to use the application package in conformity with the role, which is allocated to the user of the application, and the role, which is set in the application package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Xu Zichao, Hiroki Uchibori
  • Patent number: 11593460
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable with a terminal via a network to manage a license of a package including applications assignable to a device includes circuitry configured to display a first screen for displaying a device list, the license of the package being assignable to and cancellable from the device in response to receiving a first request, receive a selection of a specific device in the device list and any one of an operation of assigning and cancelling the license of the package, assign the license of the package to the selected specific device in response to receiving the selection of the specific device and the operation of assigning the license of the package, and cancel the license of the package from the selected specific device in response to receiving the selection of the specific device and the operation of cancelling the license of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uchibori
  • Publication number: 20210349974
    Abstract: A system includes circuitry that determines whether a license for an application has been issued to both a user and an electronic device, assigns use permission of an application to each of the user and the electronic device, based on a determination that a license for the application has been issued to both the user and the electronic device, and when use permission of the application has been assigned to both the user and the electronic device, permits the user who has logged in to the electronic device to use the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki UCHIBORI
  • Patent number: 11122144
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a client apparatus and a service providing system. The client apparatus includes first circuitry to transmit, to the service providing system, a package acquisition request for obtaining a package including at least one application program. The service providing system includes second circuitry. The second circuitry receives the package acquisition request, and obtains the package. The second circuitry receives, from the client apparatus, an email address and a tenant setup request, and generates a usage registration screen. The second circuitry transmits an email addressed to the email address, the email including a network, and receives an access to the usage registration screen from an information processing apparatus. The second circuitry sets up a tenant in response to acquisition of package identification information, and registers the at least one application program included in the package identified by the package identification information with the tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Uchibori, Akira Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20210136074
    Abstract: At least one information processing apparatus includes a circuitry that: receives, as a package management unit, a setting of a role, which can assign a usage authority of an application package containing at least one application, with respect to the application package, and permits or restricts, as a user management unit, a user to use the application package in conformity with the role, which is allocated to the user of the application, and the role, which is set in the application package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Xu ZICHAO, Hiroki UCHIBORI
  • Publication number: 20210021604
    Abstract: A cloud system provides services to a user registered in a tenant and includes a processor programmed to issue a communication destination for registering the user in association with the tenant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki UCHIBORI
  • Publication number: 20200334342
    Abstract: An information processing system, apparatus, and method are disclosed each of which: receives a request for using an application from an electronic device via a network; determines whether the requested application is applicable to the electronic device and is currently useable by the electronic device; determines whether a number of devices currently using the requested application has reached an upper limit number that is previously set, when the determining determines that the requested application is applicable to the electronic device but is not currently useable by the electronic device; and allows the electronic device to use the requested application, when the determining determines that a number of devices using the requested application has not reached the upper limit number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki UCHIBORI
  • Publication number: 20200293632
    Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one server and one or more devices communicable with the server through a network. The information processing system includes circuitry configured to: manage a service in association with a device type that can use the service; manage the devices in association with the device type, the devices each being a target device to which a license is to be allocated; and compare a device type associated with the target device to which the license is to be allocated with the device type associated with the service, to determine whether an allocation of the license of the service to the target device is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki UCHIBORI, Hideki OHHASHI
  • Patent number: 10769251
    Abstract: An information processing system, apparatus, and method are disclosed each of which: receives a request for using an application from an electronic device via a network; determines whether the requested application is applicable to the electronic device and is currently useable by the electronic device; determines whether a number of devices currently using the requested application has reached an upper limit number that is previously set, when the determining determines that the requested application is applicable to the electronic device but is not currently useable by the electronic device; and allows the electronic device to use the requested application, when the determining determines that a number of devices using the requested application has not reached the upper limit number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uchibori
  • Publication number: 20200204644
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a client apparatus and a service providing system. The client apparatus includes first circuitry to transmit, to the service providing system, a package acquisition request for obtaining a package including at least one application program. The service providing system includes second circuitry. The second circuitry receives the package acquisition request, and obtains the package. The second circuitry receives, from the client apparatus, an email address and a tenant setup request, and generates a usage registration screen. The second circuitry transmits an email addressed to the email address, the email including a network, and receives an access to the usage registration screen from an information processing apparatus. The second circuitry sets up a tenant in response to acquisition of package identification information, and registers the at least one application program included in the package identified by the package identification information with the tenant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki UCHIBORI, Akira KUSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10587718
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a client apparatus and a service providing system. The client apparatus includes first circuitry to transmit, to the service providing system, a package acquisition request for obtaining a package including at least one application program. The service providing system includes second circuitry. The second circuitry receives the package acquisition request, and obtains the package. The second circuitry receives, from the client apparatus, an email address and a tenant setup request, and generates a usage registration screen. The second circuitry transmits an email addressed to the email address, the email including a network, and receives an access to the usage registration screen from an information processing apparatus. The second circuitry sets up a tenant in response to acquisition of package identification information, and registers the at least one application program included in the package identified by the package identification information with the tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Uchibori, Akira Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 10511737
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a setting unit configured to set setting information of an operation of the electronic device according to common setting information; a designation information acquisition unit configured to acquire designation information, which designates an acquisition origin of the common setting information, via a network; and a setting information acquisition unit configured to acquire the common setting information from the acquisition origin of the common setting information designated by the designation information acquired by the designation information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uchibori
  • Publication number: 20190188362
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable with a terminal via a network to manage a license of a package including applications assignable to a device includes circuitry configured to display a first screen for displaying a device list, the license of the package being assignable to and cancellable from the device in response to receiving a first request, receive a selection of a specific device in the device list and any one of an operation of assigning and cancelling the license of the package, assign the license of the package to the selected specific device in response to receiving the selection of the specific device and the operation of assigning the license of the package, and cancel the license of the package from the selected specific device in response to receiving the selection of the specific device and the operation of cancelling the license of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroki UCHIBORI
  • Patent number: 10306080
    Abstract: An information processing system sending setup information related to a setup of an apparatus to the apparatus includes the apparatus including a receiving unit configured to receive user information of a user of the apparatus, and a first communication unit configured to send the user information and the apparatus information related to the apparatus to an information processing apparatus, and the information processing apparatus including a second communication unit configured to receive the user information and the apparatus information, and a setup information determining unit configured to determine the setup information of the apparatus used by the user based on the apparatus information and the user information, wherein the second communication unit sends the setup information determined by the setup information determining unit to the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Uchibori, Kazunori Sugimura, Ei Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20190095594
    Abstract: An information processing system, apparatus, and method are disclosed each of which: receives a request for using an application from an electronic device via a network; determines whether the requested application is applicable to the electronic device and is currently useable by the electronic device; determines whether a number of devices currently using the requested application has reached an upper limit number that is previously set, when the determining determines that the requested application is applicable to the electronic device but is not currently useable by the electronic device; and allows the electronic device to use the requested application, when the determining determines that a number of devices using the requested application has not reached the upper limit number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki UCHIBORI
  • Publication number: 20180278715
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a client apparatus and a service providing system. The client apparatus includes first circuitry to transmit, to the service providing system, a package acquisition request for obtaining a package including at least one application program. The service providing system includes second circuitry. The second circuitry receives the package acquisition request, and obtains the package. The second circuitry receives, from the client apparatus, an email address and a tenant setup request, and generates a usage registration screen. The second circuitry transmits an email addressed to the email address, the email including a network, and receives an access to the usage registration screen from an information processing apparatus. The second circuitry sets up a tenant in response to acquisition of package identification information, and registers the at least one application program included in the package identified by the package identification information with the tenant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroki UCHIBORI, Akira Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20180262637
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a setting unit configured to set setting information of an operation of the electronic device according to common setting information; a designation information acquisition unit configured to acquire designation information, which designates an acquisition origin of the common setting information, via a network; and a setting information acquisition unit configured to acquire the common setting information from the acquisition origin of the common setting information designated by the designation information acquired by the designation information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uchibori