Patents by Inventor Makoto Hayase

Makoto Hayase 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).

  • Expendable supplies providing method and expendable supplies providing apparatus, and control program
    Publication number: 20020046101
    Abstract: In order to provide a mechanism with which a user can receive a service with less costs if the user receives a print output, an expendable supplies providing method of the present invention manages advertisement information, generates distribution information based on the advertisement information, distributes the distribution information in order to print the same by a print apparatus of the user, updates a print point of the user who has printed the advertisement information in response to print output of the distribution information by the print apparatus of the user, and determines whether or not expendable supplies should be provided for the user according to the print point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Ogawa, Koichi Kadokura, Satoru Kitagawa, Makoto Hayase