Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Menjo

Hiroyuki Menjo 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).

  • Mobile communication terminal and positional information providing method
    Patent number: 7949349
    Abstract: An object is to provide a cell phone capable of achieving improvement in efficiency of communication and improvement in user's operability on the occasion of providing location information. A cell phone 10 has a data transmitter 101 for transmitting user data to a content delivery server 30, using a user channel, a location request part 102 for transmitting request information to request calculation of location information about the cell phone 10, to a GPS server 40 in accordance with the transmission of the user data, using a control channel, a location acquiring part 103 for acquiring the location information calculated based on the request information by the GPS server 40, using the control channel, and a location transmitter 105 for transmitting the location information to the content delivery server 30, using the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Menjo, Manabu Fujita, Aki Kariya, Katsutoshi Murata
  • Positional information providing apparatus communication terminal mobile communication terminal and positional information providing method
    Patent number: 7340217
    Abstract: A positional information service server selects a measuring system most suitable for measuring quality conditions received from a terminal requesting measurement when able to measure position of a designated mobile unit to be measured by a plurality of measuring systems. The positional information service server acquires the positional information of the mobile unit based on the selected measuring system, and transmits it to the terminal designated as the one to be notified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kaoru Nakajima, Kazunori Kosuge, Katsutoshi Murata, Hiroyuki Menjo, Tsuyoshi Iwamoto
  • Mobile communication terminal and positional information providing method
    Publication number: 20070123269
    Abstract: An object is to provide a cell phone capable of achieving improvement in efficiency of communication and improvement in user's operability on the occasion of providing location information. A cell phone 10 has a data transmitter 101 for transmitting user data to a content delivery server 30, using a user channel, a location request part 102 for transmitting request information to request calculation of location information about the cell phone 10, to a GPS server 40 in accordance with the transmission of the user data, using a control channel, a location acquiring part 103 for acquiring the location information calculated based on the request information by the GPS server 40, using the control channel, and a location transmitter 105 for transmitting the location information to the content delivery server 30, using the control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Menjo, Manabu Fujita, Aki Kariya, Katsutoshi Murata
  • Mobile communication terminal and position information using method
    Publication number: 20060079248
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cell phone capable of using base station position information and GPS position information more appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Otsuka, Hiroyuki Menjo, Katsutoshi Murata
  • Winner deciding system, winner deciding method, winner deciding program, and computer-readable recording medium
    Publication number: 20040067760
    Abstract: This winner deciding system includes an information transmitting unit for transmitting preliminary information related to a winning location to a mobile device used by a user, a location receiving unit for receiving location information for specifying a location of the mobile device from the mobile device which has received the preliminary information, a winner deciding unit for deciding a winning mobile device, and a winning result transmitting unit for transmitting a winning result to the decided mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Menjo, Atsushi Odakura, Maki Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Katsutoshi Murata
  • Positional information providing apparatus communication terminal mobile communication terminal and positional information providing method
    Publication number: 20030109265
    Abstract: A positional information service server selects a measuring system most suitable for measuring quality conditions received from a terminal requesting measurement when able to measure position of a designated mobile unit to be measured by a plurality of measuring systems. The positional information service server acquires the positional information of the mobile unit based on the selected measuring system, and transmits it to the terminal designated as the one to be notified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kaoru Nakajima, Kazunori Kosuge, Katsutoshi Murata, Hiroyuki Menjo, Tsuyoshi Iwamoto