Patents by Inventor Koji Shima

Koji Shima 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).

  • Publication number: 20220407807
    Abstract: A delivery control apparatus, a delivery control method, and a delivery control program by which, even if listening port numbers are duplicate in multiple server processes, a packet that has the listening port numbers as its address can be properly delivered. A process management unit detects multiple running server processes that are generated by launch of mutually different server programs and that have the same listening port number. The process management unit performs control such that one server process of the detected multiple running server processes is put into an active state and the remaining server processes are put into a standby state. A reception unit receives a packet that has the listening port number as its address. A delivery control unit delivers the packet to the server process in the active state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Hikaru Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 11190426
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a network evaluating apparatus including: an acquisition section acquiring a plurality of packets each of which includes an identification value indicating an order in accordance with which data is transmitted from a transmission source, the plurality of packets being received one by one; and an evaluation section, in a case where the identification value included in a first packet as any one of the plurality of received packets indicates that the first packet is transmitted before a second packet received before the first packet, increasing an evaluation value indicating instability of a transmission and reception path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Makoto Ikushima, Kenjiro Komaki
  • Publication number: 20200120007
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a network evaluating apparatus including: an acquisition section acquiring a plurality of packets each of which includes an identification value indicating an order in accordance with which data is transmitted from a transmission source, the plurality of packets being received one by one; and an evaluation section, in a case where the identification value included in a first packet as any one of the plurality of received packets indicates that the first packet is transmitted before a second packet received before the first packet, increasing an evaluation value indicating instability of a transmission and reception path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koji SHIMA, Makoto IKUSHIMA, Kenjiro KOMAKI
  • Patent number: 10608863
    Abstract: A transmission control device includes a delaying section and a transmitting section. When an application program calls a connect function, the delaying section delays transmission of a synchronize packet in response to the calling of the connect function. Upon calling of a transmit function by the application program while the transmission of the synchronise packet is being delayed, the transmitting section transmits the synchronise packet including transmission target data in response to the calling of the transmit function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Makoto Ikushima
  • Publication number: 20180034681
    Abstract: A transmission control device includes a delaying section and a transmitting section. When an application program calls a connect function, the delaying section delays transmission of a synchronize packet in response to the calling of the connect function. Upon calling of a transmit function by the application program while the transmission of the synchronise packet is being delayed, the transmitting section transmits the synchronise packet including transmission target data in response to the calling of the transmit function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Makoto Ikushima
  • Patent number: 9515887
    Abstract: A communication processing device including: a storage section configured to store a policy table associating an identifier identifying a communication unit with an identifier of a policy applied to the communication unit and a priority; an obtaining section configured to refer to the policy table and obtain the identifier of the policy and the priority, the identifier of the policy and the priority being associated with the identifier of the communication unit, at a time of protocol processing of the communication unit; a policy applying section configured to group one or more communication units associated with an identifier of an identical policy, and apply the identical policy to the grouped one or more communication units; and a band control section configured to perform band control on a basis of the priority for each communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Kenjiro Komaki, Hikaru Mitsuhashi
  • Publication number: 20150089002
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a microphone; a storage unit which stores at least one of record start instruction keyword; a voice recognition section which recognizes a voice content that is input through the microphone; and a record start execution section which, in a case where the voice content recognized by the voice recognition section is coincident with the record start instruction keyword, executes a record start.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Koji Shima
  • Publication number: 20140365627
    Abstract: A communication processing device including: a storage section configured to store a policy table associating an identifier identifying a communication unit with an identifier of a policy applied to the communication unit and a priority; an obtaining section configured to refer to the policy table and obtain the identifier of the policy and the priority, the identifier of the policy and the priority being associated with the identifier of the communication unit, at a time of protocol processing of the communication unit; a policy applying section configured to group one or more communication units associated with an identifier of an identical policy, and apply the identical policy to the grouped one or more communication units; and a band control section configured to perform band control on a basis of the priority for each communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Kenjiro Komaki, Hikaru Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 8670724
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that allows a wireless communication connection to be disconnected even when an application program that requires continuation of the communication connection is being executed. The wireless communication terminal transmits data to a communication target in response to a transmission processing request from an application execution section for executing the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Yasutaka Miwa
  • Patent number: 8595413
    Abstract: To increase the number of times data can be written into a flash memory a flash memory is provided with a real data block having multiple data blocks each having multiple data write cells. A memory control device identifies a data block having a reprogrammable write cell out of the data block, successively adding received, new data segments into the reprogrammable write cell of the identified data block to complete addition of the data segments. The block in a state before the addition is kept to a certain period of time and then erased in the unit of block. When the number of write operations in the data block reaches a predetermined number of times, then it selects new data blocks that are necessary for retaining a subsequent predetermined number of operations to rewrite data, and repeats the aforementioned operations for the selected data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Hideyoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 8453311
    Abstract: A method of forming a batch of uniformly shaped glass sheet objects is disclosed. A stack of glass sheets is placed in a frame and submerged in a coolant. A hole is drilled through the stack. The cores of the hole and any debris from the drilling process are swept away in the coolant and pumped through a filter. A pin is inserted into the hole and attached to the base. A head on the pin, or a washer, fixes the stack of glass to the base at the hole. An outer profile is then cut in the glass stack around the hole while the formed objects are held to a base of the frame by the pin. Again, any debris is swept away in the coolant. The uniformly shaped objects are removed from the frame and separated. The glass sheet objects are preferably usable as a substrate for a magnetic or magneto-optical (MO) data/information storage retrieval medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Robert Lloyd Babcock, Koji Shima
  • Patent number: 8429304
    Abstract: Logical partitions in an information processing apparatus share an IP address and are assigned different MAC addresses. A representative logical partition communicates with an external entity on behalf of the other logical partitions. A driver is provided with a virtual interface and a physical interface. Internal communication between the logical partitions is done via the virtual interface and communication with an external entity is done via the physical interface. If a packet received from an external destination is destined to one of the other logical partitions, the protocol stack of the representative logical partition replaces the destination MAC address by the MAC address of the destination logical partition. The protocol stack provides the packet in which the destination MAC address has been replaced to the virtual interface. The virtual interface transfers the packet provided by the protocol stack to the destination logical partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, William Parks
  • Patent number: 8383270
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a positive-electrode material, which has high capacity and high output and is inhibited from suffering a decrease in output with repetitions of charge and use. The invention provides a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, which comprises a secondary particle of a lithium/transition metal composite oxide containing boron and/or bismuth, and wherein the atomic ratio of the sum of boron and bismuth to the sum of the metallic elements other than lithium, boron, and bismuth in a surface part of the secondary particle is from 5 times to 70 times the atomic ratio in the whole secondary particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Koji Shima
  • Patent number: 8343664
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a positive-electrode material, which has high capacity and high output and is inhibited from suffering a decrease in output with repetitions of charge and use. The invention provides a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, which comprises a secondary particle of a lithium/transition metal composite oxide containing boron and/or bismuth, and wherein the atomic ratio of the sum of boron and bismuth to the sum of the metallic elements other than lithium, boron, and bismuth in a surface part of the secondary particle is from 5 times to 70 times the atomic ratio in the whole secondary particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Koji Shima
  • Publication number: 20120208471
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that allows a wireless communication connection to be disconnected even when an application program that requires continuation of the communication connection is being executed. The wireless communication terminal transmits data to a communication target in response to a transmission processing request from an application execution section for executing the application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Yasutaka Miwa
  • Patent number: 8099461
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a conference system which is provided with a plurality of communication terminals, a communication network connecting the plurality of communication terminals thereto and forming a communication environment, and a server apparatus actualizing a conference among users by using the communication network, wherein each of the communication terminals includes a notice processor notifying an acquisition request including the fact of a request to acquire multimedia data and identification information to the server apparatus, and a storage unit storing the multimedia data, and the server apparatus includes a memory unit associating a communication terminal that is a request origin with the identification information, and storing them, an inquiry processor inquiring a possibility to become the route of the multimedia data, and a transmission processor transmitting the multimedia data to the communication terminal of the request origin via the communication terminal of the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Fumikazu Matsukawa, Shigeru Fukazawa, Yasumasa Sasaki, Koji Shima, Nobuyuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 8081743
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a control table respectively showing correspondence relations between user ID of the first data terminal and listener information indicating that the first data terminal is in operation in a pseudo manner, when the first data terminal contained in the call information event is out of operation, and a controller which refers the control table based on the user ID of the first data terminal, when the first data terminal which is out of operation is started, and establishes a communication connection between the first data terminal and the second data terminal based on a reference result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Shima, Shigeru Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 8081738
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus accommodates a telephone terminal and an emergency call terminal, wherein the telephone terminal is associated with the first video camera and a first display, the emergency call terminal is associated with a second video camera and a second display, and the apparatus further includes a determination processor determines whether or not a call generated from the telephone terminal is an emergency call, a visual link former forms an image communication link between the first video camera and the second display to display an image captured by the first video camera on the second display if the determination processor determines the call is the emergency call, and a voice link former forms a voice communication link between the telephone terminal and the emergency call terminal when the emergency call terminal performs a response to the call after the image communication link is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Takeda, Yasumasa Sasaki, Koji Shima
  • Publication number: 20110256453
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a positive-electrode material, which has high capacity and high output and is inhibited from suffering a decrease in output with repetitions of charge and use. The invention provides a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, which comprises a secondary particle of a lithium/transition metal composite oxide containing boron and/or bismuth, and wherein the atomic ratio of the sum of boron and bismuth to the sum of the metallic elements other than lithium, boron, and bismuth in a surface part of the secondary particle is from 5 times to 70 times the atomic ratio in the whole secondary particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Koji Shima
  • Patent number: 7998619
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a positive-electrode material, which has high capacity and high output and is inhibited from suffering a decrease in output with repetitions of charge and use. The invention provides a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, which comprises a secondary particle of a lithium/transition metal composite oxide containing boron and/or bismuth, and wherein the atomic ratio of the sum of boron and bismuth to the sum of the metallic elements other than lithium, boron, and bismuth in a surface part of the secondary particle is from 5 times to 70 times the atomic ratio in the whole secondary particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Koji Shima