Patents by Inventor Kenji Murase

Kenji Murase 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: 11843519
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage device configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a logical layer, information objects related to a physical layer in a network configuration, and information objects related to a facility layer which are objects in which the information objects related to the physical layer are housed; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information object related to an occurrence path of a failure in the logical layer of the network configuration, from the storage device; and a search unit configured to search for, among the information objects related to the facility layer stored in the storage device, an information object related to the facility layer and the physical layer associated with the information object related to the occurrence path of the failure acquired from the acquisition unit, as a candidate for a facility that causes the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko Fukami, Masataka Sato, Shohei Nishikawa, Kenji Murase, Kenichi Tayama
  • Publication number: 20230367649
    Abstract: A virtual desktop (VDI) resource allocation decision apparatus that decides resource allocation of a VDI apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input unit that receives a performance requirement and a specified time zone, a resource allocation collection and storage unit that stores a current resource allocation including a number of virtual machines included in a host of the VDI apparatus and a virtual calculation resource, a workload collection and storage unit that stores a workload of the VDI apparatus, and a calculation function unit that applies the specified time zone and the workload to a workload prediction model to calculate a workload in the specified time zone, applies the workload in the specified time zone and the current resource allocation to a performance model to calculate first performance of the VDI apparatus, and determines whether or not the first performance meets the performance requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao WU, Kenichi TAYAMA, Shingo HORIUCHI, Kenji MURASE
  • Patent number: 11765019
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage device configured to store information indicating connection relationships between a plurality of communication devices and communication paths in a network configuration and rank information indicating ranks of the plurality of communication devices in the network configuration and a determination unit configured to, when a fault has occurred in a communication device, determine that a communication device influenced by the fault is within a fault influence range based on the information stored in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Nishikawa, Masataka Sato, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami, Kenichi Tayama
  • Patent number: 11757716
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Sato, Kazuaki Akashi, Shingo Horiuchi, Kenichi Tayama, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami, Shohei Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11736338
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage unit configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a physical layer and information objects related to a logical layer in a network configuration, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first information object related to a location where a failure occurs in the physical layer of the network configuration from the storage unit, an identification unit configured to identify, as a failure influence range, a second information object associated with the first information object related to the location where the failure occurs, of the information objects related to the logical layer stored in the storage unit, the first information object being acquired by the acquisition unit, and an outputting unit configured to output information indicating the failure influence range identified by the identification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko Fukami, Masataka Sato, Kenichi Tayama, Kenji Murase, Shingo Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11716811
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes an insulating layer, and a conductor layer including a solid layer and wirings. The solid layer has an opening part. The wirings are formed in the opening part. The opening part includes first and second opening parts. The wirings include first and second wirings. The first wiring has a first land, a first portion, and a second portion. The second wiring has a second land, a third portion, and a fourth portion extending in parallel to the second portion. A first boundary between the first and second portions is in the second opening part. The first portion is bending at the first boundary and increasing distance between the first and second wirings. A second boundary between the third and fourth portions is in the second opening part. The third portion is bending at the second boundary and increasing distance between the first and second wirings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Murase
  • Publication number: 20230099411
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage device configured to store information indicating connection relationships between a plurality of communication devices and communication paths in a network configuration and rank information indicating ranks of the plurality of communication devices in the network configuration and a determination unit configured to, when a fault has occurred in a communication device, determine that a communication device influenced by the fault is within a fault influence range based on the information stored in the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei NISHIKAWA, Masataka SATO, Kenji MURASE, Kimihiko FUKAMI, Kenichi TAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11601346
    Abstract: A service provision method according to one aspect of the present invention includes providing, to a user terminal (107), a catalog including: a first node type for defining a node relating to a VNW (102); a first relationship type for defining a relationship between nodes relating to the VNW (102); a second node type for defining a node relating to an LNW (104); and a second relationship type for defining a relationship between nodes relating to the LNW (104); receiving, from the user terminal (107), a service request generated in accordance with the catalog for requesting a service that uses the HNW (110); and controlling a VNW OpS (103) and an LNW OpS (105) in response to the received service request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Chao Wu, Kenichi Tayama, Shingo Horiuchi, Masataka Sato, Kenji Murase
  • Publication number: 20230025536
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage device configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a logical layer, information objects related to a physical layer in a network configuration, and information objects related to a facility layer which are objects in which the information objects related to the physical layer are housed; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information object related to an occurrence path of a failure in the logical layer of the network configuration, from the storage device; and a search unit configured to search for, among the information objects related to the facility layer stored in the storage device, an information object related to the facility layer and the physical layer associated with the information object related to the occurrence path of the failure acquired from the acquisition unit, as a candidate for a facility that causes the failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko FUKAMI, Masataka SATO, Shohei NISHIKAWA, Kenji MURASE, Kenichi TAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220345372
    Abstract: A network management device according to an embodiment includes: a first storage unit that stores entities representing substances of information objects in a network; a second storage unit that stores information on a start point and an end point of the network; a third storage unit that stores information on a rule of a path indicating types of and a connection order of a plurality of communication devices provided between the start point and the end point of the network; path calculation processing means for obtaining the information on the start point and the end point of the network from the second storage unit, and calculating, based on the entities stored in the first storage unit, a plurality of physical-layer paths between the start point and the end point of the network and obtaining entities between the start point and the end point in each of the plurality of physical-layer paths from the first storage unit; and path assessment processing means for assessing a path indicated by the obtained entiti
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko FUKAMI, Masataka SATO, Kenichi TAYAMA, Kenji MURASE, Shohei NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220345364
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka SATO, Kazuaki AKASHI, Shingo HORIUCHI, Kenichi TAYAMA, Kenji MURASE, Kimihiko FUKAMI, Shohei NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220346231
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes an insulating layer, and a conductor layer including a solid layer and wirings. The solid layer has an opening part. The wirings are formed in the opening part. The opening part includes first and second opening parts. The wirings include first and second wirings. The first wiring has a first land, a first portion, and a second portion. The second wiring has a second land, a third portion, and a fourth portion extending in parallel to the second portion. A first boundary between the first and second portions is in the second opening part. The first portion is bending at the first boundary and increasing distance between the first and second wirings. A second boundary between the third and fourth portions is in the second opening part. The third portion is bending at the second boundary and increasing distance between the first and second wirings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji MURASE
  • Publication number: 20220247631
    Abstract: A network management device according to an aspect includes a processing circuitry configured to perform acquiring a network configuration of a logical layer concerning a communication network having a redundant configuration in a communication section between a first network device and a second network device, the network configuration being a network configuration of a logical layer including a plurality of logical entities including a first logical entity corresponding to a first virtual port set in the first network device and a second logical entity corresponding to a second virtual port set in the second network device and, in response to occurrence of a failure of the communication network, retrieving a communicable path leading from the first logical entity to the second logical entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Shohei Nishikawa, Masataka Sato, Kenichi Tayama, Shingo Horiuchi, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami
  • Publication number: 20220224591
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage unit configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a physical layer and information objects related to a logical layer in a network configuration, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first information object related to a location where a failure occurs in the physical layer of the network configuration from the storage unit, an identification unit configured to identify, as a failure influence range, a second information object associated with the first information object related to the location where the failure occurs, of the information objects related to the logical layer stored in the storage unit, the first information object being acquired by the acquisition unit, and an outputting unit configured to output information indicating the failure influence range identified by the identification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko FUKAMI, Masataka SATO, Kenichi TAYAMA, Kenji MURASE, Shingo HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220200864
    Abstract: A network management device according to an embodiment includes: a path selection processing unit configured to perform path selection processing of selecting a path of a physical layer between a start point and an end point of a network based on a first entity stored in a first storage device configured to store the first entity, the first entity representing an entity of an information object of the network; and an entity generation processing unit configured to perform entity generation processing of generating a second entity of a logical layer corresponding to the path of the physical layer selected by the path selection processing unit based on a specification of the information object stored in a second storage device configured to store the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka SATO, Kazuaki AKASHI, Shingo HORIUCHI, Kenichi TAYAMA, Kenji MURASE, Kimihiko FUKAMI, Shohei NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220191110
    Abstract: A service provision method according to one aspect of the present invention includes providing, to a user terminal (107), a catalog including: a first node type for defining a node relating to a VNW (102); a first relationship type for defining a relationship between nodes relating to the VNW (102); a second node type for defining a node relating to an LNW (104); and a second relationship type for defining a relationship between nodes relating to the LNW (104); receiving, from the user terminal (107), a service request generated in accordance with the catalog for requesting a service that uses the HNW (110); and controlling a VNW OpS (103) and an LNW OpS (105) in response to the received service request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Chao WU, Kenichi Tayama, Shingo Horiuchi, Masataka Sato, Kenji Murase
  • Patent number: 7918493
    Abstract: A main body of an impact energy absorber is formed by integrally molding a deformable portion and a plurality of deformation controlling portions which are adapted to control the direction of plastic deformation of the deformable portion. The deformation controlling portions have such a configuration and shape that, when a compression load equal to or greater than a predetermined value is input to the main body in a tube axis direction, the deformable portion undergoes plastic deformation in at least one of a radially outward direction and a radially inward direction of the main body concurrently with the compressive plastic deformation in the tube axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Nishiguchi, Toshitsugu Ueoka, Kenichi Yamamoto, Kenji Murase
  • Publication number: 20100032970
    Abstract: A main body of an impact energy absorber is formed by integrally molding a deformable portion and a plurality of deformation controlling portions which are adapted to control the direction of plastic deformation of the deformable portion. The deformation controlling portions have such a configuration and shape that, when a compression load equal to or greater than a predetermined value is input to the main body in a tube axis direction, the deformable portion undergoes plastic deformation in at least one of a radially outward direction and a radially inward direction of the main body concurrently with the compressive plastic deformation in the tube axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya NISHIGUCHI, Toshitsugu UEOKA, Kenichi YAMAMOTO, Kenji MURASE
  • Publication number: 20060163914
    Abstract: Disclosed is a floor panel structure for an automobile body, which comprises a floor panel (2, 4, 6, 12) joined to a plurality of frame members (22, 24, 27 to 32, etc.) extending in longitudinal and lateral directions of the automobile body so as to make up an automobile floor. At least a part of the floor panel has a panel zone (S1, S2, S4, S5, S6, S8) surrounded by the frame members. The panel zone includes a high-rigid portion (84) formed by deforming a central region thereof to protrude upward or downward, and a low-rigid portion (86) formed around the high-rigid portion. The high-rigid portion is formed with a concavoconvex element, such as a bead (90). The floor panel structure of the present invention can effectively reduce vibrational energy of a floor panel so as to reduce acoustic radiation from the floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanobu Kamura, Kenji Murase, Tsuyoshi Sugihara
  • Patent number: 7014256
    Abstract: A floor panel structure of a vehicle body where a vehicle floor has floor panels with their peripheral edges linked to a plurality of frame members that are disposed in a vehicle body lengthwise direction and a vehicle body crosswise direction and linked to an engine or a suspension is disclosed. The floor panel has a joint where at least part of its peripheral edge is joined to the frame member, a groove formed along the entire length of the joint and a high-rigidity area formed within the low-rigidity area. The low-rigidity area forms a vibration blocking area along the entire length of the joint by using a difference in rigidity from the high-rigidity area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Kamura, Kenji Murase, Tsuyoshi Sugihara, Akinori Utsunomiya, Kouya Nakagawa