Patents by Inventor Kota Asaka

Kota Asaka 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: 12212405
    Abstract: A transmitter management device includes: a reception unit that receives a virtual switch configuration request from an upper management system; a determination unit that determines a plurality of paths including transfer processing by different optical transmitters on the basis of the configuration request received by the reception unit; and a setting unit that performs a setting for a plurality of the optical transmitters in such a way that a virtual switch that executes transfer processing on the basis of the paths determined by the determination unit is configured for each one of a plurality of the paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Keita Nishimoto, Kota Asaka, Junichi Kani
  • Publication number: 20240406952
    Abstract: A control device includes: a scheme determination unit configured to determine whether a packet to which an identifier of a priority is assigned is transmitted in conformity with a grant-free scheme; a time estimation unit configured to estimate a time in which a traffic volume of the packet is equal to or more than a threshold; and a transfer control unit configured to generate a control signal of a signal transfer device so that the signal transfer device transfers a packet that has arrived at the signal transfer device in the estimated time in accordance with the identifier of the priority. The scheme determination unit determines whether the repeated transmission of the packet is performed. The time estimation unit estimates a time in which the plurality of packets arrive at the signal transfer device a predetermined number of times at predetermined time intervals when it is determined that the repeated transmission of the packets is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko NOMURA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kota ASAKA
  • Publication number: 20240405909
    Abstract: A control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information from a distributed station that notifies the information related to one or more events occurred within a predetermined time period at a predetermined notification frequency, an information analysis unit that executes analysis processing on the information, a frequency derivation unit that derives an occurrence frequency of the information, a load derivation unit that derives a load of analysis processing of the information, and a frequency control unit that controls the predetermined notification frequency with a frequency lower than the occurrence frequency as an upper limit on the basis of at least one of an analysis result of the information, an occurrence frequency of the information, and a load of analysis processing of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko NOMURA, Hirotaka UJIKAWA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kota ASAKA, Yoshihito SAKAI, Tatsuya SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240323575
    Abstract: A control device including a collection unit that acquires, at a predetermined cycle, cooperation information, which is information indicating a communication state between a communication system that includes a wireless station including an antenna and an allocation device that allocates a wavelength, and a terminal to be communicated, an analysis unit that analyzes the communication state in the communication system on the basis of the cooperation information, and an allocation control unit that controls execution of wavelength allocation by the allocation device on the basis of an analysis result of the analysis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karin UMEDA, Kota ASAKA, Hiroko NOMURA, Hiroshi O, Yoshihito SAKAI, Hirotaka UJIKAWA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Yuka OKAMOTO, Tatsuya SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240305370
    Abstract: Provided is an optical transmission system including: an optical transmission apparatus; an optical reception apparatus; a communication device that is a delay measurement target; and a transmission device that transmits a signal between the optical reception apparatus and the communication device, in which the optical transmission apparatus includes a main signal transfer unit that transmits a main signal, the transmission device transmits, to the optical reception apparatus, a first main signal transmitted from the optical transmission apparatus and transmitted via the communication device and a second main signal transmitted from the optical transmission apparatus and not transmitted via the communication device, and the optical reception apparatus includes a reception processing unit that measures a delay occurring in the communication device by using the first main signal and the second main signal transmitted from the transmission device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita NISHIMOTO, Kota ASAKA, Yukio TOYOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240259285
    Abstract: Delay measurement can be performed by a dedicated circuit without use of software. A delay measurement device includes a general-purpose processor, and a delay measurement circuit that operates according to a pre-installed circuit without use of a program. An opposing terminal communicates with the delay measurement device. The delay measurement circuit includes a measurement packet generation unit, a response packet reception unit, and a delay time calculation unit that are pre-installed. The measurement packet generation unit generates a measurement packet, transmits the measurement packet to the opposing terminal, and stores the transmission time of the measurement packet. The response packet reception unit receives a response packet from the opposing terminal. The delay time calculation unit calculates a reciprocation delay time by subtracting the transmission time from the reception time. The opposing terminal transmits the response packet when receiving the measurement packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi O, Kota ASAKA, Keita NISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240244004
    Abstract: A periodic flow detection device include a packet classification unit configured to classify packets into a plurality of flows on the basis of information included in acquired packets; a flow evaluation unit configured to evaluate a possibility that each of the plurality of flows is periodically transmitted on the basis of time at which the packets are acquired; and a flow detection unit configured to detect, from the plurality of flows, a periodic flow that is a flow to which packets periodically acquired belongs on the basis of a result of the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Keita NISHIMOTO, Kota Asaka, Hiroshi O
  • Publication number: 20240223295
    Abstract: An optical communication device connected to an optical path in an optical communication network includes a controller. The controller generates an additional information signal having a carrier frequency different from a carrier frequency of a main optical signal. The controller generates an output optical signal by superimposing the additional information signal on the main optical signal, and outputs the output optical signal to the optical path. The additional information signal includes a time stamp reflecting a timing at which the additional information signal is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota ASAKA, Keita NISHIMOTO, Hiroshi O
  • Patent number: 11921333
    Abstract: A wavelength-selective optical reception device includes a photoreceptor (21) that converts optical signals (201) into electric signals and outputs the electric signals, a base (31) on which the photoreceptor (21) is provided, a housing (41) that is mounted on the base (31) and surrounds the photoreceptor (21) along with the base (31), and that is provided with a window (51) to pass optical signals (203) including the optical signals (201) and including optical signals (202) of a wavelength different from a first wavelength of the optical signals (201) and a window (52) to pass the optical signals (202), and an optical filter (61) that is disposed inside the housing between the window (51) and the photoreceptor (21) along the optical axis (205) of the optical signals (203), and that outputs, out of the optical signals (203) that enter thereto, the optical signals (201) toward the photoreceptor (21), and reflects the optical signals (202) toward a near side in a direction of travel of the optical signals (203)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Kanai, Takeshi Imai, Yumiko Senoo, Kota Asaka
  • Patent number: 11848701
    Abstract: A station-side telescope included in a station-side optical antenna unit is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a guide light source is configured to emit guide light in a direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, a node-side telescope is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a node-side control unit included in a node-side optical antenna unit is configured to generate and output a control signal for moving a node-side base based on a position of the guide light included in an image obtained by a camera capturing the guide light emitted by the guide light source so that a direction of orientation of the node-side telescope faces the direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, an antenna drive unit is configured to receive the control signal and generate and output a drive signal based on the control signal, and the node-side base included in the node-side optical antenna unit is configured to support the node-side telescope and receive the drive sig
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Imai, Kota Asaka, Takuya Kanai
  • Publication number: 20230275664
    Abstract: An optical communication system allowing for transmission and reception of, between a dynamic bandwidth allocation functional unit that dynamically allocates a bandwidth for uplink communication and a subscriber-side communication device, transmission volume information indicating the amount of information waiting to be transmitted that is stored in the subscriber-side communication device and transmission instruction information for a provider-side communication device to instruct the subscriber-side communication device on a transmission timing for transmitting the transmission volume information, the optical communication system including: a transmission instruction information encoder that acquires multi-level transmission instruction information from the dynamic bandwidth allocation functional unit, converts the multi-level transmission instruction information into binary transmission instruction information, and transmits the encoded binary transmission instruction information to a transmission instruct
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita NISHIMOTO, Kota ASAKA, Junichi KANI
  • Publication number: 20230261778
    Abstract: A transmitter management device includes: a reception unit that receives a virtual switch configuration request from an upper management system; a determination unit that determines a plurality of paths including transfer processing by different optical transmitters on the basis of the configuration request received by the reception unit; and a setting unit that performs a setting for a plurality of the optical transmitters in such a way that a virtual switch that executes transfer processing on the basis of the paths determined by the determination unit is configured for each one of a plurality of the paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Keita NISHIMOTO, Kota ASAKA, Junichi KANI
  • Publication number: 20230216591
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a optical main signal processing node apparatus including: an input port for inputting an optical multiplexed with signals pertaining to a plurality of services from an optical transmission path; an output port for outputting an optical signal multiplexed with signals pertaining to a plurality of services to an optical transmission path; a optical main signal processer configured to perform optical main signal processing on an optical signal input from the input port; and a path switch configured to switch a path of the optical signal input from the input port to one of a first path for guiding the optical signal to the output port and a second path for guiding the optical signal to the optical main signal processer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Kota Asaka, Keita NISHIMOTO, Yukio TOYOSHIMA, Takashi YAMADA, Junichi KANI
  • Publication number: 20230056684
    Abstract: A terminal function device and a proxy transfer agent device generate, on mutually-connecting physical lines, logical paths to be correlated with physical port transmitting/receiving units. In a case of receiving a signal received at one of the physical port transmitting/receiving units, the terminal function device sends the signal out to a logical path corresponding to the physical port transmitting/receiving unit that received this signal. In a case of receiving a signal through the logical path, the proxy transfer agent device correlates the signal with information identifying the physical port transmitting/receiving unit corresponding to the logical path that received this signal, and transfers the information along with the signal. Ina case of sending out a signal to the logical path, the proxy transfer agent device sends out the signal to the logical path corresponding to the physical port transmitting/receiving unit specified as a transfer destination of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita NISHIMOTO, Kota ASAKA, Takashi YAMADA, Junichi KANI
  • Patent number: 11506883
    Abstract: An optical wavelength selecting filter-module into which light is incident from a prescribed direction determined in advance, the optical wavelength-selective filter module including: an optical filter of which an orientation can be changed; a frequency information acquiring unit which acquires frequency information that is information indicating a frequency of light to be transmitted through the optical filter; a temperature information acquiring unit which acquires temperature information that indicates a temperature of the optical filter; a determining unit which determines an orientation of the optical filter based on relationship information that is information associating, for each prescribed frequency, the temperature and an orientation of the optical filter at which light of the frequency is transmitted through the optical filter at transmittance equal to or higher than prescribed transmittance at the temperature, a temperature indicated by the temperature information, and a frequency indicated by the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Imai, Takuya Kanai, Yumiko Senoo, Kota Asaka
  • Publication number: 20220368417
    Abstract: A station-side telescope included in a station-side optical antenna unit is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a guide light source is configured to emit guide light in a direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, a node-side telescope is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a node-side control unit included in a node-side optical antenna unit is configured to generate and output a control signal for moving a node-side base based on a position of the guide light included in an image obtained by a camera capturing the guide light emitted by the guide light source so that a direction of orientation of the node-side telescope faces the direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, an antenna drive unit is configured to receive the control signal and generate and output a drive signal based on the control signal, and the node-side base included in the node-side optical antenna unit is configured to support the node-side telescope and receive the drive sig
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi IMAI, Kota ASAKA, Takuya KANAI
  • Patent number: 11388056
    Abstract: An information management system includes a first information storage configured to store first attribute information regarding a communication device, a second information storage configured to store second attribute information regarding the communication device, a related information storage configured to store information representing a relationship between the first attribute information and the second attribute information, a detector configured to detect update, addition, or deletion of the first attribute information or the second attribute information, and an updater configured to output a command for the update of the second attribute information associated with the first attribute information to the second information storage when the update of the first attribute information is detected, and to output a command for the update of the first attribute information associated with the second attribute information to the first information storage when the update of the second attribute information is de
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Nishimoto, Tomoya Hatano, Kota Asaka
  • Publication number: 20220113478
    Abstract: A wavelength-selective optical reception device includes a photoreceptor (21) that converts optical signals (201) into electric signals and outputs the electric signals, a base (31) on which the photoreceptor (21) is provided, a housing (41) that is mounted on the base (31) and surrounds the photoreceptor (21) along with the base (31), and that is provided with a window (51) to pass optical signals (203) including the optical signals (201) and including optical signals (202) of a wavelength different from a first wavelength of the optical signals (201) and a window (52) to pass the optical signals (202), and an optical filter (61) that is disposed inside the housing between the window (51) and the photoreceptor (21) along the optical axis (205) of the optical signals (203), and that outputs, out of the optical signals (203) that enter thereto, the optical signals (201) toward the photoreceptor (21), and reflects the optical signals (202) toward a near side in a direction of travel of the optical signals (203)
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya KANAI, Takeshi IMAI, Yumiko SENOO, Kota ASAKA
  • Patent number: 11258510
    Abstract: A wavelength-tunable optical filter control apparatus in an optical access system that uses wavelength-multiplexed optical signal of a plurality of wavelength channels includes a wavelength-tunable optical filter configured to pass an optical signal of a specific wavelength channel among the plurality of wavelength channels; a light receiving element configured to convert the optical signal that has passed through the wavelength-tunable optical filter into an electrical signal; a signal quality determining unit configured to determine a quality of the electrical signal; and a wavelength-tunable optical filter control unit configured to acquire a light intensity of the electrical signal and control a wavelength of the wavelength-tunable optical filter based on the acquired light intensity and a determination result of the quality of the electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Imai, Takuya Kanai, Kota Asaka
  • Publication number: 20220043253
    Abstract: An optical wavelength selecting filter-module into which light is incident from a prescribed direction determined in advance, the optical wavelength-selective filter module including: an optical filter of which an orientation can be changed; a frequency information acquiring unit which acquires frequency information that is information indicating a frequency of light to be transmitted through the optical filter; a temperature information acquiring unit which acquires temperature information that indicates a temperature of the optical filter; a determining unit which determines an orientation of the optical filter based on relationship information that is information associating, for each prescribed frequency, the temperature and an orientation of the optical filter at which light of the frequency is transmitted through the optical filter at transmittance equal to or higher than prescribed transmittance at the temperature, a temperature indicated by the temperature information, and a frequency indicated by the
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi IMAI, Takuya KANAI, Yumiko SENOO, Kota ASAKA