Patents by Inventor Isao Shimokawa

Isao Shimokawa 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: 20200169480
    Abstract: A cloud service setting device and method are capable of suppressing wasteful expenditure of a cloud service for a period of time in the future and performing seamlessly setting switching to a best cloud service. A setting device for selecting an appropriate cloud service from a plurality of cloud services based on a user request and setting the selected cloud service, includes: a storage device storing a cost for functions and services for the plurality of cloud services and commands for setting the plurality of cloud services as cloud asset information; and a processing unit predicting a cost to occur in the future based on the stored cloud asset information and the user request, selects one cloud service based on the predicted cost and generates time and setting information including a setting command, and transmits the setting information to a relay device to be set according to the time information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Isao SHIMOKAWA
  • Patent number: 9065728
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for failure analysis are provided. Using aggregation flow mining (AFM) or a similar method, an integrated mining of flow (IMF) acquires, from each router to be tested, information relating to each flow. The IMF, in relation to each of the routers, obtains distributions of statistical information such as throughput or difference for each flow; calculates, in relation to each of the distributions, a Mahalanobis distance in relation to the expected value of a reference distribution; and makes a comprehensive assessment of the distributions to perform a fault determination. When the fault determination is performed, a normal value of the distribution used for comparison is acquired from AFM and updated through feedback as needed. After the results of fault determination relating to other routers are assessed, the expected value of the standard deviation and the average value of the reference distribution used for comparison are updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Shimokawa, Toshiaki Tarui, Hiroki Miyamoto, Tomohiro Baba
  • Publication number: 20130329571
    Abstract: Conventional network tomography techniques do not allow the location or cause of a failure to be specified, and false positives are common due to lack of information. Using aggregation flow mining (AFM) or a similar method, an IMF (102) acquires, from each router (105) to be tested, information in relation to each flow. The IMF, in relation to each of the routers, obtains distributions of statistical information such as throughput or difference for each flow; calculates, in relation to each of the distributions, a Mahalanobis distance in relation to the expected value of a reference distribution; and makes a comprehensive assessment of the distributions to perform a fault determination. When the fault determination is performed, a normal value of the distribution used for comparison is acquired from AFM and updated through feedback as needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Isao Shimokawa, Toshiaki Tarui, Hiroki Miyamoto, Tomohiro Baba
  • Publication number: 20080068156
    Abstract: In order to realize the joining with the legitimate devices for joining with a limited number of operations for terminal devices for which small dimension and low power consumption are required, in the radio communication system according to the present invention, a ReJoin Command for instructing the sensor node to join with other PANs is provided, and by the use of this command, it is possible to change the joining of the sensor node joined with an unintended PAN to another intended PAN. In addition, for joining with the PAN to which it is joined is disjoined, repeated attempts are to be made to join with the PAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Isao Shimokawa, Keiro Muro, Minoru Ogushi, Kazuki Watanabe, Miki Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20070286102
    Abstract: A wireless communication system comprising a management server, base stations, and a plurality of node terminals, wherein a wireless communication protocol to be applied is switched dynamically based on such indices as but error, packet error rate, the number of times of retransmitting packets, throughput/power consumption that may occur between each base station and nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Isao Shimokawa, Masayuki Miyazaki, Akira Maeki, Masaaki Shida
  • Publication number: 20060092907
    Abstract: A radio communication system suitable for a sensor net system is provided. In a TDMA method, one slot is divided into four periods. Even when a majority of sensor nodes simultaneously perform access, they can settle in a steady state in high speed corresponding to the transition response of the system. Even when sleep time intervals of the sensor nodes are changed according to the priority thereof and the transmission intervals of the sensor nodes are not constant, the TDMA method control can be performed. Moreover, even when the transmission intervals of the sensor nodes are not constant, the original system performance is not deteriorated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Isao Shimokawa, Shunzo Yamashita