Patents by Inventor Kazuo Yanoo

Kazuo Yanoo 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).

  • Patent number: 9626458
    Abstract: An evaluation model generation device is provided to generate an evaluation model which evaluates the function or non-function of an IT system based on a system model including a process model which describes processing between processes on the IT system, a server model which describes a physical system configuration of the IT system, and allocations which represent correspondence relations between the elements in the process model and those in the server model. The evaluation model generation device includes: path enumeration means 110 which extracts a process path between processes in the process model, and a server path corresponding to the process path and located on the server model; allocation estimation means 120 which estimates the allocation based on the process path and the server path; and model conversion means 130 which converts the system model into the evaluation model using the process paths, the server paths, and the estimated allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Yanoo
  • Patent number: 9027123
    Abstract: A data dependence analyzer includes: inter-process communication detection means which, on the basis of a processing content of inter-process communication performed for transferring data to be copied between resources, detects the inter-process communication; access detection means which successively detects an access event to the data in the resource due to the process; recording means which, for each of the access events detected by the access detection means, records the access target data in the access event; and analysis means which, among the access target data recorded by the recording means, searches data respectively corresponding to the copy source and the copy destination of the data transferred through the inter-process communication detected by the inter-process communication detection means and imparts a dependence relationship between the searched data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Yanoo
  • Publication number: 20140114639
    Abstract: An evaluation model generation device is provided to generate an evaluation model which evaluates the function or non-function of an IT system based on a system model including a process model which describes processing between processes on the IT system, a server model which describes a physical system configuration of the IT system, and allocations which represent correspondence relations between the elements in the process model and those in the server model. The evaluation model generation device includes: path enumeration means 110 which extracts a process path between processes in the process model, and a server path corresponding to the process path and located on the server model; allocation estimation means 120 which estimates the allocation based on the process path and the server path; and model conversion means 130 which converts the system model into the evaluation model using the process paths, the server paths, and the estimated allocations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Yanoo
  • Publication number: 20130185401
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a configuration management device which derives a combination of a plurality of types of devices having two indices where the total of a first index (P1) is equal to or greater than a specified value and the total of a second index (P2) becomes the minimum. [Solution] A configuration management device comprises: a device storage means for storing a P1 and a P2 for each of a plurality (J) of types of the devices; a configuration update means for inputting a required value N and acquiring a minimum set (N, i) while increasing i to J, where, a) if a total of P2s of a new set which is acquired by replacing at least a part of a minimum set (N, i?1) with a device of i-th type, the minimum set (N, i) is the new set, and b) if the total of P2s of each new set is not smaller than the minimum total (N, i?1), the minimum set (N, i) is the minimum set (N, i?1); and an output means for outputting a minimum set (N, J).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ajiro, Kazuo Yanoo
  • Patent number: 8484729
    Abstract: Provided is a security management system for managing the security of a managed system including during operation of the managed system, the security management system comprising: state changing means for determining a state that satisfies a state rule, which defines a desired state of the managed system, as a target state if the state of the managed system does not satisfy the state rule; and action determining means for determining a predetermined process, which is for changing the difference between the state of the managed system when the target state is determined and the target state, as a countermeasure that needs to be carried out in the state of the managed system when the target state is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Yanoo, Hiroshi Sakaki
  • Publication number: 20120221315
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system model management and support system that is capable of facilitating the management of a system model by identifying any difference between the system model and a real system. Conversion means 6 converts configuration information indicative of the configuration and settings of the real system into a model having the same expression form as the system model. The real system is actually operated as a system. The system model is used as a model representing the real system during the development of the real system. Difference extraction means 7 extracts any difference between the system model and the model converted from the configuration information by comparing the system model with the model converted from the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Yanoo
  • Publication number: 20120066698
    Abstract: A dynamic data flow tracking apparatus, a dynamic data flow tracking method, and a dynamic data flow tracking program are provided which can raise the dynamic data flow analysis speed for a program linked to plural shared libraries. A specification of data passing between functions included in a shared library is defined in a signature, which is stored in a storage unit (108). At least a part of the propagation of a tag between the functions in a call destination is skipped by referring to the signature stored in the storage unit (108) at the time of giving a call to a function defined in the signature from a program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Yanoo
  • Publication number: 20110239309
    Abstract: A data dependence analyzer includes: inter-process communication detection means which, on the basis of a processing content of inter-process communication performed for transferring data to be copied between resources, detects the inter-process communication; access detection means which successively detects an access event to the data in the resource due to the process; recording means which, for each of the access events detected by the access detection means, records the access target data in the access event; and analysis means which, among the access target data recorded by the recording means, searches data respectively corresponding to the copy source and the copy destination of the data transferred through the inter-process communication detected by the inter-process communication detection means and imparts a dependence relationship between the searched data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventor: Kazuo Yanoo
  • Publication number: 20100205651
    Abstract: Provided is a security management system for managing the security of a managed system including during operation of the managed system, the security management system comprising: state changing means for determining a state that satisfies a state rule, which defines a desired state of the managed system, as a target state if the state of the managed system does not satisfy the state rule; and action determining means for determining a predetermined process, which is for changing the difference between the state of the managed system when the target state is determined and the target state, as a countermeasure that needs to be carried out in the state of the managed system when the target state is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Yanoo, Hiroshi Sakaki
  • Patent number: 7673138
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for switching access folders in accordance with a confidential mode. In this method, a confidential root directory is located below a normal root directory. A directory structure constituted by the at least one confidential folder other than a confidential root directory is the same as that constituted by at least one normal folder other than a normal root directory. A file access request from an application program to a disk device is received. If the application program is operating as a process in a confidential mode, file access to the confidential file in the confidential folder is executed through a kernel, by rewriting a specified file path name with a file path name corresponding to the confidential folder below the confidential root directory. If the application program is operating as a process in the normal mode, file access to the confidential file in the confidential folder is not permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hosokawa, Kazuo Yanoo
  • Publication number: 20060095762
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for switching access folders in accordance with a confidential mode. In this method, a confidential root directory is located below a normal root directory. A directory structure constituted by the at least one confidential folder other than a confidential root directory is the same as that constituted by at least one normal folder other than a normal root directory. A file access request from an application program to a disk device is received. If the application program is operating as a process in a confidential mode, file access to the confidential file in the confidential folder is executed through a kernel, by rewriting a specified file path name with a file path name corresponding to the confidential folder below the confidential root directory. If the application program is operating as a process in the normal mode, file access to the confidential file in the confidential folder is not permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Masahiro Hosokawa, Kazuo Yanoo