Patents by Inventor Kohta Nagai

Kohta Nagai 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: 10187467
    Abstract: An information processing system including at least one computer includes a receiving unit that receives data input by an apparatus connected through a network and specifying information of specifying a storage destination of the data or other data generated based on the other data from a plurality of candidate storage destinations, the data and the specifying information being received from the apparatus; an intermediation unit that provides an interface common to the plurality of candidate storage destinations and sends the data or the other to the storage destination designated in a request received through the common interface; and a requesting unit that requests the intermediation unit through the common interface to send the data received by the receiving unit or the other data generated based on the data to the storage destination specified based on specifying information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohta Nagai
  • Patent number: 10063725
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for providing, via a network, information indicating a resource to be displayed on a screen of a client device includes a resource manager to store resources, wherein each resource belongs to one of resource groups, each of the resource groups belongs to a content item, display priority orders are respectively assigned to two or more of the resource groups when the two or more of the resource groups belong to the content item, and identification information is attached to the content item; a receiver to receive, from the client device, the identification information of the content item; a selector to select, based on the identification information of the content item and the priority orders for displaying, a resource to be displayed on the screen of the client device from the resources; and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating the resource to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohta Nagai
  • Publication number: 20180097951
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for providing, via a network, information indicating a resource to be displayed on a screen of a client device includes a resource manager to store resources, wherein each resource belongs to one of resource groups, each of the resource groups belongs to a content item, display priority orders are respectively assigned to two or more of the resource groups when the two or more of the resource groups belong to the content item, and identification information is attached to the content item; a receiver to receive, from the client device, the identification information of the content item; a selector to select, based on the identification information of the content item and the priority orders for displaying, a resource to be displayed on the screen of the client device from the resources; and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating the resource to the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohta Nagai
  • Patent number: 9514291
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a receiving unit configured to receive from an external device a use initiation request designating user specific information and organization identification information, and an authentication unit configured to issue authentication information indicating that authentication has been completed in a case where the user specific information and the organization identification information designated in the use initiation request are stored in association with each other in a first storage unit that stores one or more sets of user specific information in association with the organization identification information. The authentication unit receives a new authentication information issuance request designating the authentication information and issues new authentication information that can be used even after a user termination request designating the authentication information is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Fukuda, Taku Nagumo, Kohta Nagai
  • Patent number: 9262644
    Abstract: A server connectable to an apparatus providing contents and an image display apparatus includes an index information processing part configured to provide the image display apparatus with index information for causing a list of information items associated with the contents to be displayed by the image display apparatus, an image data processing part configured to provide the image display apparatus with image data for causing a content associated with an information item selected from the list to be displayed by the image display apparatus, and an apparatus authentication part configured to cause the index information processing part and the image data processing part to execute respective processes when the identification information of the image display apparatus that has requested to obtain the content associated with the selected information item by using access authority information regarding authority to access the content is managed in correlation with the access authority information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohta Nagai, Hiroyuki Matsushima, Daigo Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20150264129
    Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one information processing apparatus; a receiving unit that receives definition information for defining composition elements of an operation screen displayed on an apparatus connected to the information processing system through a network in order to cause the apparatus and a computer system connected to the information processing system through the network to collaborate through the information processing system from a client apparatus used to edit the definition information; a generation unit that generates display data for displaying a first screen including the operation screen in a mode corresponding to a display unit based on the definition information received by the receiving unit; and a sending unit that sends the display data generated by the generation unit to the client apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Sachiko TAKEUCHI, Kohta NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20150120857
    Abstract: An information processing system including at least one computer includes a receiving unit that receives data input by an apparatus connected through a network and specifying information of specifying a storage destination of the data or other data generated based on the other data from a plurality of candidate storage destinations, the data and the specifying information being received from the apparatus; an intermediation unit that provides an interface common to the plurality of candidate storage destinations and sends the data or the other to the storage destination designated in a request received through the common interface; and a requesting unit that requests the intermediation unit through the common interface to send the data received by the receiving unit or the other data generated based on the data to the storage destination specified based on specifying information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kohta NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20140223320
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more information processing devices, and includes a display control unit configured to provide, to an external device, a screen of one or more basic processes relevant to a portal service; a common function providing unit configured to provide, to the display control unit, one or more common functions used by the one or more basic processes; and a base function providing unit configured to provide a base function to the common function providing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori SUGIMURA, Kohta NAGAI, Ryo TAKEMOTO, Minami OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20140223535
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a receiving unit configured to receive from an external device a use initiation request designating user specific information and organization identification information, and an authentication unit configured to issue authentication information indicating that authentication has been completed in a case where the user specific information and the organization identification information designated in the use initiation request are stored in association with each other in a first storage unit that stores one or more sets of user specific information in association with the organization identification information. The authentication unit receives a new authentication information issuance request designating the authentication information and issues new authentication information that can be used even after a user termination request designating the authentication information is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu FUKUDA, Taku Nagumo, Kohta Nagai
  • Publication number: 20140122350
    Abstract: A license management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives identification data of a second license corresponding to a predetermined service, a search unit that searches for license data of a first license corresponding to a service matching the predetermined service, in a storage unit that stores license data including status data of each license, and a transmission unit that transmits a search result of the search by the search unit. The second license is a license that is not yet used and the first license is a license that is currently used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo TAKEMOTO, Kohta Nagai
  • Publication number: 20140020117
    Abstract: A server connectable to an apparatus providing contents and an image display apparatus includes an index information processing part configured to provide the image display apparatus with index information for causing a list of information items associated with the contents to be displayed by the image display apparatus, an image data processing part configured to provide the image display apparatus with image data for causing a content associated with an information item selected from the list to be displayed by the image display apparatus, and an apparatus authentication part configured to cause the index information processing part and the image data processing part to execute respective processes when the identification information of the image display apparatus that has requested to obtain the content associated with the selected information item by using access authority information regarding authority to access the content is managed in correlation with the access authority information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohta NAGAI, Hiroyuki MATSUSHIMA, Daigo UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20130332477
    Abstract: A record creating support apparatus to support creation of a record may include an extracting unit that extracts a special word from a record that is being created, a searching unit that searches a special word dictionary in order to determine whether the special word extracted by the extracting unit is registered in the special word dictionary, and a notifying unit that notifies the special word when the searching unit determines that the special word is not registered in the special word dictionary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohta NAGAI, Hiroki OHZAKI
  • Patent number: 8570573
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and an information processing apparatus that are connected via a data communication channel. The image processing apparatus includes an execution request unit sending an execution request to request the information processing apparatus to execute an image processing function, a command reception unit receiving a control command from the information processing apparatus, and a hardware control unit controlling a hardware component of the image processing apparatus based on the received control command to perform image processing corresponding to the image processing function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohta Nagai
  • Publication number: 20130238689
    Abstract: A server apparatus capable of connecting to a content providing apparatus which provides content and an image display apparatus via a network, includes an index data processing unit which provides index data to the image display apparatus, based on content to be provided by the content providing apparatus, for having the image display apparatus display a list screen including information of the content; and an image data processing unit which provides image data to the image display apparatus for having the image display apparatus display a content display screen using information of the content selected from the list screen by an operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MATSUSHIMA, Daigo Uchiyama, Kohta Nagai
  • Publication number: 20110317224
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and an information processing apparatus that are connected via a data communication channel. The image processing apparatus includes an execution request unit sending an execution request to request the information processing apparatus to execute an image processing function, a command reception unit receiving a control command from the information processing apparatus, and a hardware control unit controlling a hardware component of the image processing apparatus based on the received control command to perform image processing corresponding to the image processing function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kohta Nagai
  • Publication number: 20110010642
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a standard function and an extension function that uses the standard function operate in a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine different from the first virtual machine, respectively. A second communications interface unit in the second virtual machine generates display control data with the use of a display control command in response to a screen page update request from an application that implements the extension function, the display control data being used for performing display control on the display screen page of the application, and transmits the display control data to the first virtual machine. A first communications interface unit in the first virtual machine sends, to a screen page control module configured to perform screen page control, a request to perform the display control in accordance with the display control data received from the second virtual machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohta Nagai