Patents by Inventor Ken Saito

Ken Saito 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: 11283628
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a non-volatile storage; a communication interface; a processor; and a memory. The non-volatile storage is configured to store a private key. The memory stores computer-readable instructions therein. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to perform: acquiring the private key from the non-volatile storage; acquiring a certificate from a specific external device via the communication interface, the certificate including a public key corresponding to the private key, and the specific external device being different from the information processing device; converting specific data using the private key to generate converted specific data, the converting including one of encrypting the specific data and decrypting the specific data encrypted using the public key; and outputting the certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Publication number: 20220083300
    Abstract: A server may receive a first e-mail including a first image file from a first external device and send a first print request to a first printer. After the first e-mail has been received from the first external device, the server may receive a second e-mail including a second image file from a second external device. The server may, in a case where the second e-mail is received from the second external device, determine whether the second e-mail was generated by using the first e-mail. The server may, in a case where it is determined that the second e-mail was not generated by using the first e-mail, send a second print request to the first printer. In a case where it is determined that the second e-mail was generated by using the first e-mail, the second print request may not be sent to the first printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Ken SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220083289
    Abstract: A control device receives an email including a header part and a body part. A first file image represented by a first file is inserted in the body part. In a case where the body part includes a text different from the first file image, the control device supplies first print data for printing a first print image on a first print medium to the print executing unit. The first print image includes the text, the first file image, and header information which is at least a part of information included in the header part. In a case where the body part does not include the text, the control device supplies second print data for printing a second print image on a second print medium to the print executing unit. The second print image includes the file image but does not include the header information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Publication number: 20220060597
    Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosure, in a memory of an MFP, information indicating that an additional function, which is inactivated when shipped from a factory, is activated or inactivated is stored. The MFP starts a trial mode in which trial of the additional function is activated, then the additional function becomes activated within an effective period of the trial mode. The MFP is configured to receive an input of setting information used for the additional function, store the input setting information in the memory and execute a process of the additional function in accordance with the setting information. Further, when the trial mode is terminated, the MFP initializes the setting information in a case where the stored information indicates that the additional function is inactivated, but does not initialize the setting information in a case where the stored information indicates that the additional function is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyoshi ADACHI, Ken SAITO, Yoshi HIRASAWA, Satoshi TANIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210382664
    Abstract: A first server may receive error information from a communication device at a predetermined timing, send error receipt information to a second server. The second server may send destination information to the first server, the destination information indicating a destination in the second server to which the first server is to send a changing signal in response to the state of the communication device being changed from the error state to a non-error state. The first server may send the changing signal to the second server by using the destination information. The second server may identify from a memory first data to be sent to the communication device, send first relation information related to the identified first data to the first server. The first server may send to the communication device first instruction information corresponding to the first relation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Ken SAITO
  • Patent number: 11172078
    Abstract: A server may store first device identification information identifying a first device. The server may, in a case where alert information is received, store restriction information in the memory in association with the first device identification information; receive second sending information from the first device; and in a case where the second sending information is received from the first device in a state where the restriction information is not stored in association with the first device identification information, send a second email with a first email address as a destination stored in association with the first device identification information, wherein in a case where the second sending information is received from the first device in a state where the restriction information is stored in association with the first device identification information, the sending of the second email is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Patent number: 11171954
    Abstract: A server may receive a target e-mail address from a terminal device; store in the memory the target e-mail address and authentication information in association with each other; send a first e-mail including the target e-mail address, as a destination address, and the authentication information; receive the authentication information from the first communication device; specify the target e-mail address associated with the authentication information in the memory; and execute a predetermined process by using the target e-mail address, the predetermined process being a process which is necessary for the server or the first communication device to send a second e-mail including the target e-mail address, as a destination address, and related information related to the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Publication number: 20210243066
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor executes computer-readable instructions stored in the memory. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a first network including the communication apparatus and a first device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a second network including the communication apparatus and a second device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to determine a target IP address. Determining the target IP address includes identifying a particular IP address, which is an IP address of the communication apparatus used in the second type network. Determining the target IP address includes generating the target IP address to be within a particular range using the particular IP address. The particular range is a range of IP addresses that are not available in the second type network. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to assign the target IP address to the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken SAITO
  • Publication number: 20210163537
    Abstract: This peptide is composed of an amino acid sequence represented by general formula (I), and has a high degree of accumulation in cancer cells or cancer tissue in a digestive system. (In general formula (I), X11 is a peptide residue composed of an amino acid sequence of (a) or (b) below: (a) an amino acid sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 3, (b) an amino acid sequence including a sequence in which one or two amino acids have been deleted, substituted or added in an amino acid sequence represented by any of SEQ m NOs: 1 to 3; Y11 is a peptide linker composed of an amino acid residue of at least 1 but not more than 10 amino acids, wherein each amino acid residue is independently a glycine residue, a proline residue, a serine residue a cysteine residue or a lysine residue; X12 is either a peptide residue composed of an amino acid sequence of (a) or (b) above, or a retro-inverso peptide residue thereof; and n11 represents an integer of at least 1 but not more than 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Niigata University
    Inventors: Eisaku KONDO, Ken SAITO
  • Patent number: 11012286
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor executes computer-readable instructions stored in the memory. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a first network including the communication apparatus and a first device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a second network including the communication apparatus and a second device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to determine a target IP address. Determining the target IP address includes identifying a particular IP address, which is an IP address of the communication apparatus used in the second type network. Determining the target IP address includes generating the target IP address to be within a particular range using the particular IP address. The particular range is a range of IP addresses that are not available in the second type network. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to assign the target IP address to the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Publication number: 20210099604
    Abstract: A server may establish a session with a function execution device via the Internet, the session being for executing server-push communication, the function execution device being capable of executing at least a facsimile function, receive first image data from a terminal device via the Internet, and in a case where the first image data is received from the terminal device, send facsimile request information to the function execution device via the Internet by using the session, the facsimile request information being for requesting a facsimile transmission of an image corresponding to the first image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventor: Ken SAITO
  • Patent number: 10939012
    Abstract: A controller in a management system performs: in response to receiving a first request, transmitting first information to an image-processing apparatus, the transmitted first information being acquired by a terminal apparatus; receiving the first information acquired by the terminal apparatus and original image data stored in the terminal apparatus; storing the received original image data at a first storage location in the image data storage, the first storage location being specified by the received first information; receiving a second request; in response to receiving the second request, transmitting the second information to the image-processing apparatus; receiving the second information and a third request from the image-processing apparatus; and in response to receiving the third request; transmitting target image data based on the received original image data to the image-processing apparatus, the target image data being stored in the second storage location specified by the received second informati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Patent number: 10913347
    Abstract: An engine is a rear exhaust engine provided with an exhaust system component on a rear side in a vehicle front-rear direction. This engine includes a first flow rectifying member, provided above the engine, that subjects traveling wind to flow rectification so that the traveling wind flows rearward and a second flow rectifying member, disposed adjacently to a rear side of the first flow rectifying member, that subjects the traveling wind, subjected to flow rectification by the first flow rectifying member, to flow rectification so that the traveling wind is directed to the exhaust system component, in which fuel system components are disposed below the first flow rectifying member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Saito, Takashi Kashiwabara, Masayuki Furutani, Ryosuke Kawafune
  • Publication number: 20200412886
    Abstract: A server may store first device identification information identifying a first device. The server may, in a case where alert information is received, store restriction information in the memory in association with the first device identification information; receive second sending information from the first device; and in a case where the second sending information is received from the first device in a state where the restriction information is not stored in association with the first device identification information, send a second email with a first email address as a destination stored in association with the first device identification information, wherein in a case where the second sending information is received from the first device in a state where the restriction information is stored in association with the first device identification information, the sending of the second email is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Ken SAITO
  • Patent number: 10855876
    Abstract: In response to a position information request, a controller in a management system transmits original image position information to an image processing device such that the controller transmits first and second original image position information, respectively, in response to first and second position information requests that are different from each other, first and second original image storage positions indicated by the first and second original image position information being different from each other. The controller receives original image data from the image processing device that has accessed by using the original image position information, stores the original image data at an original image storage position, and transmits code data to the image processing device. In response to a target image data request from a terminal device that has acquired target image position information by reading a code image, the controller transmits target image data to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Patent number: 10811081
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for charging memory data lines when a high charge level is to be written to a memory. The apparatus may include a write amplifier that includes one or more additional pull-up drivers for charging the memory data lines. Control logic may control when additional pull-up drivers are activated. Control logic may control when main data lines are coupled to shared data lines. Methods for charging memory data lines may include providing control signals that indicate which main data lines are coupled to shared data lines and when a write command is received. Methods may include providing a signal that is indicative of the data to be written. The control signals and signal indicative of the data to be written may be used to activate one or more pull-up drivers to charge one or more data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Takayama, Ken Saito
  • Patent number: 10798269
    Abstract: A communication system including an image processing apparatus configured to, in response to receiving acquisition instruction information from a server via indirect communication, receive authentication information from an information processing terminal device via near-field wireless communication, transmit the received authentication information to the server via the indirect communication, and in response to receiving communication instruction information, which indicates a method for data communication with a service providing apparatus, from the server via the indirect communication, perform data communication with the service providing apparatus in accordance with the received communication instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishibashi, Tatsuhiko Sone, Ken Saito
  • Patent number: 10749866
    Abstract: A registration mediating server may send to a function mediating server a first authentication information request, receive from the function mediating server first authentication information, send to the function mediating server an execution information request, receive from the function mediating server specific execution information, and send to a specific server communication information including the first authentication information and the specific execution information. The specific server may register the communication information, receive from a sound input device a first function execution request, extract the first authentication information and the specific execution information, and send to the function mediating server a second function execution request including related information which is related to the extracted specific execution information by using the first authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Patent number: 10742836
    Abstract: In a server, a memory stores first correlation information for correlating first group identification information with both first device information assigned to a first communication device and second device information assigned to a second communication device. A first group includes the first communication device and the second communication device. In a case where device information matching the first device information and authentication information matching the first authentication information are received from the first communication device, the processor transmits to the first communication device a second file generated using a first file which is stored correlated with the first authentication information in the memory. In a case where device information matching the second device information and authentication information matching the first authentication information are received from the second communication device, the processor transmits to the second communication device the second file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Saito
  • Publication number: 20200244512
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor executes computer-readable instructions stored in the memory. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a first network including the communication apparatus and a first device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a second network including the communication apparatus and a second device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to determine a target IP address. Determining the target IP address includes identifying a particular IP address, which is an IP address of the communication apparatus used in the second type network. Determining the target IP address includes generating the target IP address to be within a particular range using the particular IP address. The particular range is a range of IP addresses that are not available in the second type network. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to assign the target IP address to the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken SAITO