Patents by Inventor Hiroko MUTO

Hiroko MUTO 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: 12069090
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to make a search for illegal (illegitimate) content more efficient. The illegitimate content relates to content posted by an unauthorized user without a legitimate ownership of the content. An illegitimate content search device according to the present invention comprises a phishing content sensing part for, using a profile of candidate content being potentially illegitimate content, sensing, from among the candidate content, phishing content being non-illegitimate content for guiding a user's viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko Muto, Takahito Kawanishi, Osamu Yoshioka, Ryo Kitahara
  • Patent number: 12061584
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to make a search for illegal (illegitimate) content more efficient. The illegitimate content relates to content posted by an unauthorized user without a legitimate ownership of the content. An illegitimate content search device according to the present invention comprises: a query generation dictionary storage part for storing a query generation dictionary for generating a search query used in searching for illegitimate content; a query generation dictionary creation part for extracting, from a title of illegitimate content, associated wording being associated with wording included in a title of legitimate content, and registering the extracted associated wording in the query generation dictionary for generating the search query used in searching for the illegitimate content; and a search query generation part for generating the search query using the associated wording registered in the query generation dictionary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko Muto, Takahito Kawanishi, Osamu Yoshioka, Ryo Kitahara
  • Patent number: 12061589
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a search for illegal (illegitimate) content In particular, the present disclosure provides the search in an efficient manner by excluding pieces of presumed illegitimate content from the candidates of illegitimate content for comparing with legitimate content. The illegitimate content comprises content posted by an unauthorized user without a legitimate ownership of the content. An illegitimate content sensing device according to the present disclosure comprises a presumed illegitimate content deletion part for, on the basis of a profile of candidate illegitimate content, identifying pieces of the candidate illegitimate content having a profile which is within a degree of identicalness to a profile of previously identified illegitimate content as presumed illegitimate content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko Muto, Takahito Kawanishi, Osamu Yoshioka, Ryo Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11947635
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to achieve greater efficiency in searches for illegal (illegitimate) content. The illegitimate content relates to content posted by an unauthorized user without a legitimate ownership of the content. An illegitimate content search device according to the present invention comprises: a content profile acquisition part for acquiring a profile including a posting history of illegitimate content posted by a user having posted candidate content being potentially illegitimate content; and a matching priority calculation part for calculating, on the basis of the profile, the priority of the candidate content with regard to determining whether a plurality of pieces of content is illegitimate content, and elevating the priority of the illegitimate content with a history of having posted the illegitimate content higher than if content without the history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko Muto, Takahito Kawanishi, Osamu Yoshioka, Ryo Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20210126945
    Abstract: An illegitimate content search device 1 according to the present invention includes a fishing content detecting unit 18 configured to detect, based on profiles of pieces of possible content, which are possibly illegitimate content, fishing content, which is non-illegitimate content and induces a user to browse, from among the pieces of possible content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: NIippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko MUTO, Takahito KAWANISHI, Osamu YOSHIOKA, Ryo KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210097151
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to achieve greater efficiency in searches for illegal (illegitimate) content. The illegitimate content relates to content posted by an unauthorized user without a legitimate ownership of the content. An illegitimate content search device according to the present invention comprises: a content profile acquisition part for acquiring a profile including a posting history of illegitimate content posted by a user having posted candidate content being potentially illegitimate content; and a matching priority calculation part for calculating, on the basis of the profile, the priority of the candidate content with regard to determining whether a plurality of pieces of content is illegitimate content, and elevating the priority of the illegitimate content with higher if a history of having posted the illegitimate content higher than if content without the history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko MUTO, Takahito KAWANISHI, Osamu YOSHIOKA, Ryo KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210026930
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to make a search for illegal (illegitimate) content more efficient. The illegitimate content relates to content posted by an unauthorized user without a legitimate ownership of the content. An illegitimate content search device according to the present invention comprises: a query generation dictionary storage part for storing a query generation dictionary for generating a search query used in searching for illegitimate content; a query generation dictionary creation part for extracting, from a title of illegitimate content, associated wording being associated with wording included in a title of legitimate content, and registering the extracted associated wording in the query generation dictionary for generating the search query used in searching for the illegitimate content; and a search query generation part for generating the search query using the associated wording registered in the query generation dictionary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko MUTO, Takahito KAWANISHI, Osamu YOSHIOKA, Ryo KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210011982
    Abstract: An illegitimate content search device 10 according to the present invention includes a previously detected illegitimate content removing unit 19 configured to detect, based on profiles of pieces of possible content, which are possibly the illegitimate content, presumed illegitimate content, which is content whose profile is identical to a profile of previously detected illegitimate content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko MUTO, Takahito KAWANISHI, Osamu YOSHIOKA, Ryo KITAHARA