Patents by Inventor Kazuaki AKASHI
Kazuaki AKASHI 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).
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Publication number: 20240118959Abstract: A rule generation device according to an embodiment includes: a database in which, for each fault, fault factor information including a fault factor part and a fault factor, fault events that occur due to this fault, a rule ID associated with a rule including a condition part and a result part are registered in association with one another; an importance degree determination unit determining, when fault events of a new fault that is a newly occurred fault are registered with the database, degrees of importance of the fault events of the new fault based on at least one of values calculated through statistical processing or analytical processing for information other than the fault events or overall information about the fault events, which are registered with the database; and a rule generation unit generating a rule for the new fault based on the degrees of importance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Haruhisa NOZUE, Satoshi SUZUKI, Shunsuke KANAI, Kazuaki AKASHI, Naomi MURATA, Fumika ASAI
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Patent number: 11954507Abstract: A GUI component in a screen is recognized without analyzing a program code of application software. A screen recognition device includes a GUI component form/position determination unit 11 that extracts a GUI component included in a display screen of application software, from the display screen, and that determines the form and position of the GUI component, and a GUI component kind identification unit 12 and a GUI component operation identification unit 13 that determine the kind of the GUI component and an operation that can be performed to the GUI component, based on a change in a mouse cursor and a change in the GUI component when the mouse cursor is superimposed on the GUI component.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Di Li, Haruhisa Nozue, Kazuaki Akashi, Kenichi Tayama
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Publication number: 20240073105Abstract: A position control device includes a first input unit to receive input of information related to a virtual node that generates attraction or repulsion according to the types of a plurality of types of nodes, and to receive, for each of a plurality of areas on a screen, input of information related to the plurality of types of nodes and links displayable in the areas. Further, there is a second input unit to receive, for at least one of the plurality of areas, input of information related to setting of any display positions of the nodes indicated by the information that is input, and a parameter calculation unit to calculate a parameter for calculating attraction or repulsion applied by the virtual node to the nodes at the display positions. Additionally, there is a determination unit configured to calculate attraction or repulsion applied by the virtual node.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki AKASHI, Haruhisa NOZUE
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Publication number: 20240070564Abstract: A travel plan generation device according to an aspect of the present invention is provided with a generation unit that generates a travel plan for traveling a plurality of points by a plurality of mobile bodies by performing, at each output step, processing of selecting any one point out of the plurality of points and any one mobile body out of the plurality of mobile bodies by using a recurrent neural network configured to output visiting probabilities at the plurality of points and use probabilities of the plurality of mobile bodies when point information regarding the plurality of points and mobile body information regarding the plurality of mobile bodies are input, and an output unit that outputs the travel plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki AKASHI, Shunsuke KANAI, Manami OGAWA, Yusuke NAKANO, Zhao WANG
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Publication number: 20240064067Abstract: A position control device according to an embodiment includes: a setting unit that inputs information on a plurality of nodes displayable on a screen and at least one edge connecting two of the multiple nodes, and sets a virtual node which generates an attractive force or a repulsive force for a node having a predetermined feature out of the plurality of nodes indicated by the information thus input; a calculation unit that calculates an attractive force or a repulsive force related to the plurality of nodes and the virtual node set by the setting unit; and a control unit that controls display positions of the plurality of nodes on the screen on the basis of the attractive force or the repulsive force calculated by the calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Haruhisa NOZUE, Kazuaki AKASHI
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Patent number: 11892905Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, a memory stores case performances on anomaly handling of a plurality of apparatuses. A hardware processor performs: identification processing of identifying an anomaly cause of an abnormal apparatus in the plurality of apparatuses; selection processing of selecting an estimation model for estimating a handling method suitable for the anomaly cause from a plurality of estimation models based on the case performance of the abnormal apparatus; estimation processing of estimating a handling method suitable for the anomaly cause among a plurality of handling methods based on the selected estimation model; and output processing of outputting information indicating the estimated handling method.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shunsuke Kanai, Satoshi Suzuki, Haruhisa Nozue, Naomi Murata, Fumika Asai, Kazuaki Akashi
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Publication number: 20240005264Abstract: A delivery support device includes a probability calculation unit that calculates probabilities that a delivery vehicle arrives at a plurality of respective target positions on the basis of positional relationships between a departure position of the delivery vehicle and the plurality of respective target positions and an amount of fuel before the delivery vehicle departs, and an expected value calculation unit that calculates an expected value of a number of target positions where the delivery vehicle arrives on the basis of probabilities for the plurality of respective target positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Manami OGAWA, Shunsuke KANAI, Kazuaki AKASHI, Shohei NISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11855912Abstract: A network management device according to one embodiment includes a device that stores rules for mapping between a service order and a resource order; a device that stores, when a mapping is performed based on the mapping rules, a mapping history in which an identifier of a service for the service order which is a mapping source, a type of a rule used for the mapping, and an identifier of a resource for the resource order which is a mapping target are described; and a creation unit that, when a service order to change the service is created, acquires, from the mapping history and the identifier of the service to be changed, information indicating types of rules to be used for mapping of the service order to change the service and the identifier of the resource for a resource order which is a mapping target, and creates a resource order by mapping of the order to be changed based on the acquired mapping rules.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Akashi, Masataka Sato, Shingo Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20230359949Abstract: A recovery assistance device according to an embodiment includes an analysis unit and a learning unit. The analysis unit generates a first procedure plan related to recovery work of a first failure by solving an optimization problem on the basis of first information related to the first failure. The learning unit acquires feedback information related to work procedure adopted for the recovery work of the first failure and generates a learning result reflecting the feedback information with respect to the first procedure plan. In a case where a second failure occurs, the analysis unit further generates a second procedure plan related to recovery work of the second failure using the learning result.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shohei NISHIKAWA, Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Chao WU, Manami OGAWA, Kazuaki AKASHI, Naomi MURATA
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Publication number: 20230336409Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, when a combination rule of event information to be monitored is created by aggregating a plurality of pieces of event information generated in a network, an information processing device executes: collecting the plurality of pieces of event information; calculating a correlation value for a plurality of combinations of event information including m (m?3) pieces of event information generated from the plurality of pieces of event information collected; selecting a combination of the pieces of event information for which the calculated correlation value is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, wherein the correlation value increases as the number of times or frequency that the event information included in a combination appears according to the combination increases and also increases as a time interval between the pieces of event information included in the combination decreases; and generating the combination rule on the basis of the event informationType: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Naomi MURATA, Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Shunsuke KANAI, Kazuaki AKASHI, Fumika ASAI
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Patent number: 11757716Abstract: There is provided a network management device (1) including a capacity management unit (10) for managing the capacity in a network to be managed and a storage unit (20) for storing management information. The storage unit stores specification information of entities included in the network, and entity information including information indicative of relationships between the entities. The capacity management unit 10 includes a capacity request acquisition section (11) which receives a generation request of a first entity; reads the specification information about the first entity from the storage unit, and determines whether or not the first entity needs to consume a resource; when it is determined that the first entity needs to consume a resource, identifies a second entity capable of providing capacity consumed by the first entity, based on the entity information stored in the storage unit; and outputs information about the identification result.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masataka Sato, Kazuaki Akashi, Shingo Horiuchi, Kenichi Tayama, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami, Shohei Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230273850Abstract: Provided is an event mapping acquiring unit (11) and an event type conversion unit (12). The event mapping acquiring unit (11) acquires an event mapping file defining a normalized alarm message indicating a normalized alarm content, a resource type indicating an event failure location, an alarm type, and an event type indicating event classification of the alarm in association with one another. The event type conversion unit (12) determines whether input alarm information matches the definition of the event mapping file acquired, when the input alarm information matches the definition, sets the event type to a value defined in the event mapping file, when the input alarm information does not match the definition, sets the event type to the alarm type of alarm information, and registers the event type and the alarm information in association with each other as a failure event in the database.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Shunsuke KANAI, Kazuaki AKASHI, Fumika ASAI, Naomi MURATA, Kenichi TAYAMA
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Publication number: 20230274216Abstract: A delivery plan creation device according to an aspect of the invention creates a delivery plan including an order of delivery of fuel to each of destinations using a delivery vehicle and an amount of fuel to be supplied. The delivery plan creation device includes a database, a storage unit, and a processor. The database holds environment information including destination information related to the destination and delivery vehicle information related to the delivery vehicle. The storage unit stores a trained model created by training a neural network having at least an input layer and an output layer in advance based on different environment information. The processor includes an acquisition unit and a creation unit. The acquisition unit accesses the database to acquire the environment information and create an input condition that is a premise of the delivery plan from the environment information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki AKASHI, Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Chao WU, Shohei NISHIKAWA, Naomi MURATA, Manami OGAWA
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Patent number: 11681576Abstract: In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a prior probability is used by an approach of Bayesian statistics, for all nodes stored in fault handling history data or for a target node for which a fault cause has been identified and all nodes of the same type as the target node, restoration probabilities of handling methods for an identical fault cause are calculated, priorities are set for the handling methods based on the calculated restoration probabilities, and a handling method to be presented is determined in accordance with the priorities.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shunsuke Kanai, Haruhisa Nozue, Satoshi Suzuki, Fumika Asai, Naomi Murata, Kazuaki Akashi
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Publication number: 20230153126Abstract: A GUI component in a screen is recognized without analyzing a program code of application software. A screen recognition device includes a GUI component form/position determination unit 11 that extracts a GUI component included in a display screen of application software, from the display screen, and that determines the form and position of the GUI component, and a GUI component kind identification unit 12 and a GUI component operation identification unit 13 that determine the kind of the GUI component and an operation that can be performed to the GUI component, based on a change in a mouse cursor and a change in the GUI component when the mouse cursor is superimposed on the GUI component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Di LI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Kazuaki AKASHI, Kenichi TAYAMA
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Publication number: 20230128841Abstract: In a failure location identification apparatus according to one embodiment, a facility information management unit records therein facility information including positional information of a physical resource, an external factor information management unit records therein external factor information concerning an external factor that possibly becomes a factor that causes a failure in the physical resource, the external factor information including positional information of the external factor, and a facility influence definition management unit records therein information concerning a possible influence of the external factor on the physical resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Fumika ASAI, Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Kazuaki AKASHI, Naomi MURATA
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Publication number: 20230092999Abstract: A network management device according to one embodiment includes a device that stores rules for mapping between a service order and a resource order; a device that stores, when a mapping is performed based on the mapping rules, a mapping history in which an identifier of a service for the service order which is a mapping source, a type of a rule used for the mapping, and an identifier of a resource for the resource order which is a mapping target are described; and a creation unit that, when a service order to change the service is created, acquires, from the mapping history and the identifier of the service to be changed, information indicating types of rules to be used for mapping of the service order to change the service and the identifier of the resource for a resource order which is a mapping target, and creates a resource order by mapping of the order to be changed based on the acquired mapping rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Kazuaki AKASHI, Masataka Sato, Shingo Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20220398143Abstract: As an embodiment of the present invention, a network monitoring apparatus includes a combination rule storage section where a combination rule is registered; and the combination rule includes a combination of a plurality of failure event information to be monitored, and new event information to which the combination of the plurality of failure event information is to be changed. In this state, the network monitoring apparatus collects a plurality of failure event information from network apparatuses; extracts, from the plurality of failure event information collected, a combination of a plurality of failure event information detected to occur within a unit time; and collates the combination of the plurality of failure event information extracted with the combination of the plurality of failure event information defined to be monitored in the combination rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Naomi MURATA, Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Shunsuke KANAI, Fumika ASAI, Kazuaki AKASHI
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Publication number: 20220342746Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, a memory stores case performances on anomaly handling of a plurality of apparatuses. A hardware processor performs: identification processing of identifying an anomaly cause of an abnormal apparatus in the plurality of apparatuses; selection processing of selecting an estimation model for estimating a handling method suitable for the anomaly cause from a plurality of estimation models based on the case performance of the abnormal apparatus; estimation processing of estimating a handling method suitable for the anomaly cause among a plurality of handling methods based on the selected estimation model; and output processing of outputting information indicating the estimated handling method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Naomi MURATA, Fumika ASAI, Kazuaki AKASHI
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Publication number: 20220345364Abstract: There is provided a network management device (1) including a capacity management unit (10) for managing the capacity in a network to be managed and a storage unit (20) for storing management information. The storage unit stores specification information of entities included in the network, and entity information including information indicative of relationships between the entities. The capacity management unit 10 includes a capacity request acquisition section (11) which receives a generation request of a first entity; reads the specification information about the first entity from the storage unit, and determines whether or not the first entity needs to consume a resource; when it is determined that the first entity needs to consume a resource, identifies a second entity capable of providing capacity consumed by the first entity, based on the entity information stored in the storage unit; and outputs information about the identification result.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masataka SATO, Kazuaki AKASHI, Shingo HORIUCHI, Kenichi TAYAMA, Kenji MURASE, Kimihiko FUKAMI, Shohei NISHIKAWA