Patents by Inventor Hisanori Yamahara

Hisanori Yamahara 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).

  • Publication number: 20160062975
    Abstract: A web page providing device includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a request for a web page from a terminal. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit to the terminal the web page from which a script is readable. The script causes the terminal to execute: measuring an elapsed time from a most recent operation and determining whether the elapsed time exceeds a predetermined time; when it is determined that the elapsed time exceeds the predetermined time, changing a display mode of the web page from a normal display mode to another display mode returning the display mode of the web page to the normal display mode in a case where a reset operation is performed by the user of the terminal when the display mode of the web page is the other display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisanori YAMAHARA
  • Patent number: 9277174
    Abstract: In a video communication performed by using an imaging unit and a video display device, a communication terminal acquires a video captured by the imaging unit, stores at least a part of the acquired video in a storing unit, and determines a video of a predetermined interval after a start of the video communication being currently in progress from the stored video, as a replacement video. Then, the communication terminal is triggered when a predetermined start condition is satisfied during the output of the video captured by the imaging unit, and outputs the replacement video instead of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Patent number: 9202030
    Abstract: To reduce a fear in that another person notices limitation of a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to a user, a page generation unit identifies a publicly-displayable range of information on the user based on control information, which is information different from a password and is identified based on content of an operation performed in a password input field with an input device. The page generation unit limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified by the page generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Patent number: 9135316
    Abstract: An information providing device includes a search result information transmission means that transmits search result information, which indicates one or more pieces of information of information that has been searched for by an information search device, to a terminal device, a graph display information transmission means that transmits graph display information for displaying a graph showing a relationship between display order in which the information that has been searched for by the information search device as the search result and a value of a predetermined presentation item related to the information is displayed, and a range indication display information transmission means that transmits range indication display information for displaying predetermined range indication information at a position in the graph, the position indicating a display range being a range of the information indicated by the search result information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20150256794
    Abstract: In a video communication performed by using an imaging unit and a video display device, a communication terminal acquires a video captured by the imaging unit, stores at least a part of the acquired video in a storing unit, and determines a video of a predetermined interval after a start of the video communication being currently in progress from the stored video, as a replacement video. Then, the communication terminal is triggered when a predetermined start condition is satisfied during the output of the video captured by the imaging unit, and outputs the replacement video instead of the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Patent number: 9117241
    Abstract: An inputter can intuitively understand a numerical value input by himself/herself and the possibility of ignoring an erroneous input can be reduced. Only an Arabic numeral representing the input numerical value is displayed in a first display area. At least one of (i) a character string comprising an Arabic numeral and a character or a character string other than the Arabic numeral and (ii) only a character or a character string other than the Arabic numeral, which represents the input numerical value, is displayed in a second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20150149325
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for more flexibly managing a maximum amount of payment in e-commerce. A purchase managing server causes a storage unit to store a maximum amount of payment, which is input by a user, in a predetermined period, executes purchase processing according to a current purchase including one or more items that the user purchases, each of the one or more items being at least one of goods and service, and determines whether or not to limit current purchase processing based on at least either one of the current purchase and a past purchase of the user, in a case where a total of a payment amount of the user in the predetermined period and a payment amount of the current purchase exceeds the maximum amount of payment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20150058371
    Abstract: An answer form capable of saving display space and visibly easy to examine is provided. An answer form processing method includes the steps of obtaining a question form including one or more lines of a question sentence and a plurality of consecutive lines of options, obtaining an answer form that indicates an answer for the question sentence from an answerer, the answer form being generated by adding one or more characters to the one or more lines in the question form, each of the lines indicating the option, comparing the question form and the answer form on a line-by-line basis, and outputting at least a part of each line in the answer form while restricting output of the line which matches the corresponding line in the question form, thereby outputting the answer form where the line indicating the option to which one or more characters are not added by the answerer is omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20140344293
    Abstract: A plurality of items of data, each having a plurality of items of attribute information, are sorted in order of most comprehensively satisfying conditions relating to the plurality of items of attribute information. An information providing server includes a single sorting unit that calculates, for each of the plurality of items of data having the plurality of items of attribute information and included in a data group, an evaluation value for sorting the data group based on a sort key designated for one of the plurality of items of attribute information. The information providing server includes a multiple sorting unit that sorts the data group based on a plurality of multiple evaluation values that are calculated, for respective items of data included in the data group, based on the evaluation values and the respective weights of the plurality of sort keys, each of the evaluation values being calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20140337700
    Abstract: A terminal device (100) comprises a selected object designating part (122) for determining an object conjectured to be selected by a user from among objects in a second Web page linked to a first Web page by a selected link. Furthermore, the terminal device (100) comprises a display position determining part (123) for determining the display position of the second Web page in a window so that the designated object is displayed within a prescribed range with an operation position as the reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Patent number: 8863233
    Abstract: The present invention includes: acquiring a question including text information and a correct answer to the question; converting part of a character string or character in the question into a different character string or character, and generating a character-converted question (42) corresponding to the question (S21); outputting information of the character-converted question to an output destination (S22); receiving an input of a response (43) to the character-converted question (S27); and determining whether or not the received response matches with the correct answer (S28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20140229575
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an information processing apparatus and the like capable of, even when an initial application cannot be accepted, presenting an alternative to the application to an applicant so that the applicant can easily apply the alternative. When the contents of an initial application are grasped from received transmission data and it is judged that the application cannot be accepted, reply data containing transmission destination information capable of identifying an alternative to the application is created and the created reply data is transmitted to the transmission source of the transmission data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20140150117
    Abstract: To reduce a fear in that another person notices limitation of a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to a user, a page generation unit identifies a publicly-displayable range of information on the user based on control information, which is information different from a password and is identified based on content of an operation performed in a password input field with an input device. The page generation unit limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified by the page generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20140129955
    Abstract: To enable dynamic changing of a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to a user depending on a change in an environment of an information processing terminal, an environmental information acquisition unit sequentially acquires environmental information representing an environment of a user terminal. A monitoring unit changes a publicly-displayable range of information on a user of the user terminal depending on a change in the environmental information sequentially acquired by the environmental information acquisition unit. A page changing unit limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range after the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20140067581
    Abstract: An EC server (10) stores time when a user has accessed item information indicating an item sold with a first selling condition as a reference time into an access history database (24). The EC server (10) includes a price adjustment unit (12b) that, when the user accesses the item information after the reference time, sets a second selling condition being less favorable to the user than the first selling condition based on an elapsed time period from the reference time to the access or the number of accesses to the item information by the user after the reference time, and a page transmitting unit (13) that presents the second selling condition in place of the first selling condition to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Patent number: 8655982
    Abstract: There are provided an information searching apparatus, a number deciding method, an information searching program, an information searching system and a recording medium, in which a user can efficiently browse search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20130151511
    Abstract: An information providing device includes a search result information transmission means that transmits search result information, which indicates one or more pieces of information of information that has been searched for by an information search device, to a terminal device, a graph display information transmission means that transmits graph display information for displaying a graph showing a relationship between display order in which the information that has been searched for by the information search device as the search result and a value of a predetermined presentation item related to the information is displayed, and a range indication display information transmission means that transmits range indication display information for displaying predetermined range indication information at a position in the graph, the position indicating a display range being a range of the information indicated by the search result information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20130060843
    Abstract: In providing information to a user, a server apparatus and the like which can preferentially display information in which the user is interested is provided. Degrees of interest of the user for targets corresponding to information displayed on a display unit are calculated based on details of operation of the user when the display unit displays the information, and information to be displayed is displayed by prioritizing the information of targets related to targets with high degrees of interest of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20130024394
    Abstract: The present invention provides, for example, a server apparatus which can learn a reaction related to information by a user who the information is offered. A reaction of the user related to offer information offered by a webpage and a URL of the webpage are received from a terminal device, the reaction of the user and the URL are associated and stored in a memory means, and the reaction of the user is counted per URL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara
  • Publication number: 20120323731
    Abstract: Provided is a system for preventing shopping mistakes from occurring. A combination evaluation unit (702) evaluates a combination of an additional purchase candidate product received by a purchase candidate receiving unit (701) and an existing purchase candidate product stored in advance in a purchase candidate storage unit (703), and specifies data to call attention suitable for the evaluation result. Then, a purchase candidate confirmation screen creation unit (704) creates a purchase candidate confirmation screen containing the data to call attention. An order request receiving unit (708) receives an order request and then registers a purchase candidate as order information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisanori Yamahara