Patents by Inventor Koutarou SHIBATA

Koutarou SHIBATA 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).

  • Collaboration of modules for execution of application in information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 8745623
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an application and functional modules configured to collaborate with each other to provide an application function of the application. Each of the functional modules operates as a requester that requests a provider function and a provider that provides the provider function requested by the requester. Each of the functional modules includes a function availability query unit that, at the requester, queries the provider about whether the requested provider function is available, a function availability response unit that, at the provider, sends a response indicating whether the requested provider function is available to the requester, and a function execution determining unit that, at the requester, controls execution of a requester function of the requester based on the response sent from the function availability response unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koutarou Shibata, Hideaki Furukawa
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20120096464
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an application and functional modules configured to collaborate with each other to provide an application function of the application. Each of the functional modules operates as a requester that requests a provider function and a provider that provides the provider function requested by the requester. Each of the functional modules includes a function availability query unit that, at the requester, queries the provider about whether the requested provider function is available, a function availability response unit that, at the provider, sends a response indicating whether the requested provider function is available to the requester, and a function execution determining unit that, at the requester, controls execution of a requester function of the requester based on the response sent from the function availability response unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Koutarou SHIBATA, Hideaki FURUKAWA