Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kawahashi

Hiroshi Kawahashi 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: 7751554
    Abstract: A sound information providing system, which can eliminate inappropriate sound information, is provided. The sound information providing system includes a receiving unit that receives a phone number for identifying a cellular phone of the destination side and a phone number for identifying a cellular phone of the source side. Both information is transmitted from the cellular phone of the source side, a sound information requesting unit for requesting sound information based on the received phone number. A sound information monitoring unit monitors the sound information are output in response to the request. It eliminates inappropriate sound information, and selects the sound information conforming to a predefined condition. A transmitting unit transmits the selected sound information to the cellular phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Urata, Toshihiko Ishiba, Naohisa Yokota, Hiroshi Kawahashi
  • Publication number: 20050207563
    Abstract: A sound information providing system, which can eliminate inappropriate sound information, is provided. The sound information providing system 10 comprises a receiving unit 101 for receiving a phone number for identifying a cellular phone 35 of the destination side and a phone number for identifying a cellular phone 30 of the source side, both information transmitted from the cellular phone 30 of the source side; a sound information requesting unit 102 for requesting sound information based on the received phone number; a sound information monitoring unit 103 for monitoring the sound information being output in response to the request, eliminating inappropriate sound information, and selecting the sound information conforming to a predefined condition; and a transmitting unit 104 for transmitting the selected sound information to the cellular phone 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Urata, Toshihiko Ishiba, Naohisa Yokota, Hiroshi Kawahashi
  • Publication number: 20050037793
    Abstract: An object is to implement such a configuration that, where a call recipient sets a caller-side RBT, a caller can acquire information about the RBT. For achieving this object, a sound information providing system comprises a sound source information replicating part for replicating sound source information about the RBT under transmission to a cell phone in a call origination to another cell phone, prior to arrival at the cell phone; a relevant information acquiring part for acquiring relevant information about the sound source information on the basis of the replicated sound source information; and an acquisition result keeping part for storing the acquired relevant information in connection with a telephone number of the cell phone in an acquisition result storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Urata, Hiroshi Kawahashi, Natsuko Kawano