Patents by Inventor Manabu Idei

Manabu Idei 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).

  • Apparatus for collecting information and managing access rights
    Patent number: 7500180
    Abstract: An information collecting/providing system provides information in a manner that allows information to be easily registered, viewed, developed, and reused, even when a large amount of various kinds of information is collected and dealt with. The information collecting/providing system includes one or more terminal devices, an information collection/management apparatus connectable to the one or more terminal devices via a communication network, and an collected-information database connected to the information collection/management apparatus. The information collection/management apparatus receives collected information from the one or more terminal devices and stores the received information into the collected-information database. If the information collection/management apparatus receives a request from a terminal device, the information collection/management apparatus transmits, to the terminal device, collected information allowed for a user of the terminal device to read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisahito Gondo, Noriko Aoki, Jun Nishimura, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Yukihiro Hoshino, Manabu Idei
  • Information collection/management system, information collection/management apparatus, terminal device for use in the information collection/management system, storage medium in which collected information is stored, method for allowing collected information to be viewed, program for implementing the system, the apparatus, the terminal, or executing the method, and storage medium in which the program is stored
    Publication number: 20030079186
    Abstract: An information collecting/providing system provides information in a manner that allows information to be easily registered, viewed, developed, and reused, even when a large amount of various kinds of information is collected and dealt with. The information collecting/providing system includes one or more terminal devices, an information collection/management apparatus connectable to the one or more terminal devices via a communication network, and an collected-information database connected to the information collection/management apparatus. The information collection/management apparatus receives collected information from the one or more terminal devices and stores the received information into the collected-information database. If the information collection/management apparatus receives a request from a terminal device, the information collection/management apparatus transmits, to the terminal device, collected information allowed for a user of the terminal device to read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Hisahito Gondo, Noriko Aoki, Jun Nishimura, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Yukihiro Hoshino, Manabu Idei