Patents by Inventor Kotaro Ise

Kotaro Ise 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: 9122544
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus which the communication unit receives a usage request of a resource described in a first format from a program providing apparatus, the conversion unit identifies a resource providing apparatus having the resource as indicated and converts the usage request described in the first format into the usage request described in a second format that can be interpreted by the resource providing apparatus identified, the communication unit transmits the usage request described in the second format to the resource providing apparatus and receives a processing result of the usage request described in the second format from the resource providing apparatus, the conversion unit converts the processing result described in the second format into the processing result described in the first format, and the program execution unit performs an operation according to the processing result described in the first format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Daisuke Ajitomi, Kotaro Ise, Hiroyuki Aizu
  • Patent number: 9113413
    Abstract: An example communication terminal in which a plurality of communication protocols are executed includes a communication device configured to form an association with communication equipment; a communication managing unit configured to decide an operational mode of the communication device; and a device power managing unit configured to control power state of the communication device in accordance with an operational mode decided by the communication managing unit. A plurality of communication protocols (or a plurality of application software) are executed in the communication terminal and a frame to be transmitted is selected according to an execution situation of the communication protocols. The selected frame is transmitted via the association so that the association is maintained and a connection/session of the communication protocol of the selected frame is also maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kotaro Ise
  • Patent number: 9086880
    Abstract: A communication device management apparatus includes a communication unit for communicating with a user device and a service device, a device information storing unit for storing device information of the service device that is received from the service device via the communication unit, an activation signal processing unit for receiving an activation signal from the user device via the communication unit, a device information transmission unit for transmitting the device information stored in the device information storing unit to the user device via the communication unit, and a power management unit for controlling an operational state. When the activation signal processing unit receives the activation signal, the power management unit shifts the operational state from an idle state to an active state consuming much power. The power management unit shifts the operational state from the active state to the idle state thereafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kotaro Ise, Takeshi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 9071082
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a charge/discharge determination apparatus for performing a charge/discharge control of a battery based on instructions given from charge/discharge instruction apparatuses, including: a battery information storage unit which stores battery information concerned with the battery; a charge/discharge information storage unit which stores charge/discharge information for charging/discharging the battery; a communication unit which receives a communication message concerned with an access request from each charge/discharge instruction apparatus; and a control unit which controls access from each charge/discharge instruction apparatus based on the battery information, the charge/discharge information and contents of the access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Keiichi Teramoto, Kotaro Ise
  • Patent number: 9054890
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus controls controllable nodes. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires at least one of a first evaluation value indicating an occurrence frequency of a control request to a target controllable node and a second evaluation value indicating an occurrence frequency of communication error at the target controllable node. The generation unit generates identification information to be assigned to control the target controllable node in a manner such that a bit length of the identification information becomes shorter as at least one of the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Tanizawa, Kotaro Ise, Eiji Kamagata, Tsuyoshi Kogawa, Takeshi Ishihara, Yuichiro Oyama, Takaomi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9024728
    Abstract: A remote activating device remotely activates a device to be activated connected to a first network and a second network. The remote activating device includes a first interface connected to the first network, a second interface connected to the second network, an arrival confirmation processing unit that transmits an arrival attribute confirmation signal to the device to be activated using the first interface and confirms whether or not the arrival attribute confirmation signal has arrived at the device to be activated, and a judging unit that decides the first interface as an activation signal transmitting interface when the arrival attribute confirmation signal has arrived at the device to be activated and decides the second interface as the activation signal transmitting interface when the arrival attribute confirmation signal has not arrived at the device to be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishihara, Kotaro Ise, Yuichiro Oyama, Takaomi Murakami, Naohisa Shibuya, Eiji Kamagata
  • Publication number: 20150085825
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a first wireless communicator, a storage, and a controller. The first wireless communicator establishes a wireless connection to a network. The storage stores therein data. The controller causes the first wireless communicator to establish a connection to the network when a determination value satisfies a connection condition. The determination value is characterized by at least one of operating conditions, positional information, communication conditions, and communication quality of the communication apparatus. The controller causes the first wireless communicator to obtain information through the network and store the information in the storage or further transmit the information stored in the storage through the network when the determination value satisfies an obtaining condition. The controller disconnects the connection between the first wireless communicator and the network when the determination value satisfies a disconnection condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi ISHIHARA, Kotaro ISE
  • Publication number: 20150084416
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power electronics device including: a connector connected to a power line; a power controller; a connection detection processor; and a collision monitor. The power controller performs at least one of generating an electric signal to the power line and detecting an electric signal on the power line via the connector. The connection detection processor performs a connection detection process with use of the power controller to detect another power electronics device connected to the power line. The collision monitor monitors whether or not collision of electric signals occurs on the power line during the connection detection process and controls the connection detection processor according to a monitoring result of whether or not the collision of electric signals occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI, Kotaro ISE, Fumiaki KANAYAMA, Yuki YONEZAWA, Ikuya AOYAMA, Akihito TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8990521
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device that includes a first storage unit and a second storage unit having power consumption different from that of the first storage unit. The information processing device also includes a control unit configured to make a control to determine a priority of information that is to be stored in the first storage unit or the second storage unit. The control unit is configured to store the information into the first storage unit or into the second storage unit based on the determined priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishihara, Yoshimichi Tanizawa, Kotaro Ise
  • Publication number: 20150063473
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power electronics device in which a controlling unit selects a first power electronics device and a second power electronics device from power electronics devices, based on power attribute information and communication attribute information of each power electronics device, and the first power electronics device is a master of power allocation control of electric energy that the power electronics devices connected to one power line of power lines perform input and output on the one power line, and the second power electronics device is a master of output power phase synchronization control of power which the power electronics devices connected to the one power line outputs to the one power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI, Kotaro ISE, Takafumi SAKAMOTO, Yuji TOHZAKA, Ikuya AOYAMA
  • Patent number: 8952673
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control device communicates with a power measurement device. The control device includes a communication unit, a threshold storage, a calculation unit, and a control unit. The communication unit is configured to receive a usable electric power from the power measurement device. The threshold storage stores a first threshold. The calculation unit is configured to calculate a usable electric energy by integrating the usable electric power. The control unit is configured to change an operation status of the control device based on a comparison result between the usable electric energy and the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yumiko Sakai, Yusuke Doi, Kotaro Ise
  • Patent number: 8947066
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control apparatus communicable with a power measuring apparatus includes a communication unit, a threshold storage, and a controller. The communication unit acquires a usable power value from the power measuring apparatus. The threshold storage stores a threshold value. The controller changes a working state thereof in accordance with a comparison result of the usable power value and the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshiki Terashima, Tsubasa Yumura, Kotaro Ise
  • Patent number: 8901876
    Abstract: There is provided a charge/discharge determining apparatus for managing a natural energy power generation facility, a power plant and a plurality of batteries in an electrical power system. The apparatus includes: a system information acquiring section configured to acquire an actual value of natural energy power that is supplied from the natural energy power generation facility to the electrical power system; a battery information acquiring section configured to acquire battery electric energy information from the respective batteries, wherein the battery electric energy information indicates charge/discharge electric energies of the respective batteries which can be discharged from or charged in the respective batteries; and a determining section configured to determine at least one battery to be charged/discharged from among the plurality of batteries, wherein when an absolute value of a difference between the actual value and a predicted value of the natural energy power is larger than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Kotaro Ise, Keiichi Teramoto, Takahisa Wada
  • Patent number: 8880921
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication device includes a wake-up signal reception unit configured to receive a wake-up signal to request a change of a state from a second state to a first state, the second state requiring less power consumption than the first state; and a state control unit configured to change the state from the second state to the first state and inform a control unit of the change of the state when the wake-up signal is received, the control unit being configured to process a frame received during the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kotaro Ise, Yoshimichi Tanizawa, Takeshi Ishihara, Masataka Goto, Eiji Kamagata
  • Publication number: 20140309799
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a request control device includes a receiving unit, a generating unit, and a sending unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a first electric power control request issued for purpose of controlling electric power usage. The generating unit is configured to generate a second electric power control request, which is different than the first electric power control request, at least using the first electric power control request. The sending unit is configured to send the second electric power control request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kotaro ISE, Yu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20140304168
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data managing apparatus including: a storage, a power consumption acquiring unit, an information generating unit and a sending unit. The storage stores information on an electricity unit price applied to a customer for each of a plurality of periods of time. The power consumption acquiring unit acquires a history of power consumption for the customer, from a meter apparatus of the customer. The information generating unit sums up the power consumption for ones of the periods of time for which same electricity unit price is applied to generate first information indicating an integrated value of the power consumption for each electricity unit price. The sending unit sends the first information to an external system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yu KANEKO, Kotaro ISE, Shigeo MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20140288718
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, there is provided a power electronics device including: a controlling unit, a determining unit, a confirming unit and a determining unit. The controlling unit performs surveillance/control concerning an input/output of power to a power line with other power electronics devices connected via the power line. The determining unit determines a master device which is a subject of the surveillance/control and a slave device which is controlled by the master device, based on power characteristic information of the other power electronics devices from among the other power electronics devices and the power electronics device. The confirming unit confirms whether the master device and the slave device determined by the determining unit are matched with the master device and the slave device determined by the other power electronics devices. The determining unit permits a start of the surveillance/control when matching is determined by the confirming unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAIHSA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI, Keiichi TERAMOTO, Kotaro ISE, Yasuro SHOBATAKE, Ikuya AOYAMA, Yuki Yonezawa, Fumiaki Kanayama, Yusuke Doi, Shinya Murai
  • Publication number: 20140288719
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power electronics device including: a connection unit connected to a first power line; a communication unit; at least one unit of an electricity change unit and an electricity detection unit; and a control unit. The communication unit performs communication with other power electronics devices. The electricity change unit changes an energization state of the first power line and the electricity detection unit detects a change in the energization state of the first power line. The control unit specifies a power electronics device connected to the first power line out of the other power electronics devices using the communication unit and said at least one unit of the electricity change unit and the electricity detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Fumiaki Kanayama, Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Keiichi Teramoto, Yuki Yonezawa, Kotaro Ise, Ikuya Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8832313
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a terminal device is provided, comprising: a first communication unit communicating with a network device by receiving a destination address of a server and identification information for identifying the network device, and receiving transmission data of the network device to the server and the identification information; a device information storage unit that stores the destination address in association with the identification information; a second communication unit communicating with the server, by transmitting the transmission data received from the network device to the server using the destination address that corresponds to the identification information in the device information storage, and receiving from the server a result of determining whether the transmission data transmitted from the second communication unit matches the transmission data that the network device transmits to the server; and a display unit that displays the result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshiki Terashima, Kotaro Ise
  • Publication number: 20140244960
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a computing device managing a first memory region and a second memory region, a power consumption to hold data stored in the second memory region being smaller than that of the first memory region, including: a data manager and a data processor. The data manager manages a referring number, which is a number of processes referring to first data existing in either one of the first memory region or the second memory region. The data processor moves the first data to the second memory region when the first data exists in the first memory region and the referring number to the first data satisfies a first condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kotaro ISE, Masataka GOTO