Patents by Inventor Kazuma MIFUNE

Kazuma MIFUNE 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).

  • Management apparatus, management system, method for controlling management apparatus, and program
    Patent number: 11243796
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes: a data holding part that holds a function management table for storing information associating apparatus identification information identifying an expansion apparatus and function identification information for identifying a function that is set in the expansion unit; a function management part that specifies an expansion apparatus in response to an instruction to start up a virtual machine, that sets, in the expansion unit, function identification information corresponding to a function satisfying a functional requirement of the virtual machine, that sets the function satisfying the functional requirement as an internal function in the expansion unit, and that stores function identification information in the function management table; and a function setting part that determines driver software necessary for an internal function of the expansion apparatus based on function identification information set in the expansion unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Mifune, Masayuki Terao
  • MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190317798
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes: a data holding part that holds a function management table for storing information associating apparatus identification information identifying an expansion apparatus and function identification information for identifying a function that is set in the expansion unit; a function management part that specifies an expansion apparatus in response to an instruction to start up a virtual machine, that sets, in the expansion unit, function identification information corresponding to a function satisfying a functional requirement of the virtual machine, that sets the function satisfying the functional requirement as an internal function in the expansion unit, and that stores function identification information in the function management table; and a function setting part that determines driver software necessary for an internal function of the expansion apparatus based on function identification information set in the expansion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma MIFUNE, Masayuki TERAO