Patents by Inventor Masaaki Kosugi
Masaaki Kosugi 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).
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Publication number: 20240106703Abstract: Disclosed herein is a network management apparatus, comprising: a basic information acquisition unit configured to acquire basic server information including server information and location information, the server information including identification information of an accommodating station accommodating a server that constitutes a network and an identifier of a BMC of the server, the location information indicating an installation location of the server in the accommodating station; a related information generation unit configured to generate server-related information including at least an IP address of the server based on the basic server information; a setting information generation unit configured to generate setting information necessary for provisioning the server based on the basic server information and the server-related information; and a data query unit configured to query the server about normality of the setting information generated by the setting information generation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INCInventors: Jayoung OH, Masaaki KOSUGI, Jun OKADA
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Publication number: 20240106706Abstract: Disclosed herein is a network management apparatus, comprising: a configuration information storage unit configured to store configuration information on devices and/or functions that constitute a virtualized environment of a network; a property information acquisition unit configured to acquire information associated with devices and/or functions to which a workaround for a specific problem is to be applied as property information of the workaround; an application target extraction unit configured to extract devices and/or functions serving as an application target of the workaround by referring to the configuration information stored by the configuration information storage unit based on the property information acquired by the property information acquisition unit; and an execution request unit configured to request to execute the workaround with respect to the application target extracted by the application target extraction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.Inventors: Masaaki KOSUGI, JUN OKADA, Jayoung OH
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Publication number: 20240107340Abstract: Disclosed herein is a network management apparatus, comprising: a correlating information storage unit configured to store correlating information, about a failure that occurs, that correlates a notification notified when the failure occurs to a workaround for the failure; a notification acquisition unit configured to acquire, a plurality of notifications notified in relation to a plurality of components related to a device in which the failure has occurred, respectively; a failure determination unit configured to determine whether the failure is a known failure in which the notification is correlated to the workaround or an unknown failure, by referring to the correlating information based on the plurality of notifications; and a workaround determination unit configured to determine, when the failure is determined to be the known failure, the workaround that is correlated to a notification determined according to a predetermined ordering of the components, as the workaround to be applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.Inventors: Jun OKADA, Jayoung OH, Masaaki KOSUGI
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Patent number: 11310697Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal; and a communication unit configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit to a base station that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Mayo Oohira, Masaaki Kosugi, Toshiyuki Tamura, Yusuke Takano
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Publication number: 20210410012Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal; and a communication unit configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit to a base station that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Mayo OOHIRA, Masaaki KOSUGI, Toshiyuki TAMURA, Yusuke TAKANO
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Publication number: 20210266793Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit (14) configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal (30); and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit (14) to a base station (20) that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: NEC Corporation (c/o Hibiki IP Law Firm)Inventors: Mayo OOHIRA, Masaaki KOSUGI, Toshiyuki TAMURA, Yusuke TAKANO
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Patent number: 11006321Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit (14) configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal (30); and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit (14) to a base station (20) that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Mayo Oohira, Masaaki Kosugi, Toshiyuki Tamura, Yusuke Takano
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Publication number: 20210103457Abstract: A control apparatus is configured by including one or more virtual machines each configured to control a virtual network function and a host machine to control the one or more virtual machines. The control apparatus is configured by including a virtual control module configured to control the one or more virtual machines, a physical control module configured to control the host machine, and a first storage module configured by including a first storage region and a second storage region and configured to be accessible by the virtual control module and the physical control module. The first storage region stores packet data, and the second storage region stores virtual addresses each configured to identify the first storage region. The control apparatus identifies the first storage region, based on one of the virtual addresses that are stored in the second storage region and reads the packet data from the identified first storage region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Mayo OOHIRA, Masaaki KOSUGI
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Publication number: 20200336943Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit (14) configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal (30); and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit (14) to a base station (20) that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: NEC Corporation (c/o Hibiki IP Law Firm)Inventors: Mayo OOHIRA, Masaaki KOSUGI, Toshiyuki TAMURA, Yusuke TAKANO
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Patent number: 10791482Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit (14) configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal (30); and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit (14) to a base station (20) that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Mayo Oohira, Masaaki Kosugi, Toshiyuki Tamura, Yusuke Takano
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Publication number: 20190349814Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit (14) configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal (30); and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit (14) to a base station (20) that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Mayo OOHIRA, Masaaki KOSUGI, Toshiyuki TAMURA, Yusuke TAKANO
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Patent number: 10405239Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit (14) configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal (30) and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit (14) to a base station (20) that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Mayo Oohira, Masaaki Kosugi, Toshiyuki Tamura, Yusuke Takano
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Publication number: 20190053102Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit (14) configured to determine a radio resource to be allocated in accordance with a service provided for a radio terminal (30) and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit resource identification information indicating the radio resource determined in the determination unit (14) to a base station (20) that manages a plurality of radio resources for each RAN Slice associated with a service.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Mayo OOHIRA, Masaaki KOSUGI, Toshiyuki TAMURA, Yusuke TAKANO
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Patent number: 10140112Abstract: In an update management system including a plurality of servers executing a communication service, a server not connected to a network in which a new version of an application is operated is generated in parallel with a server in which an old version of the application is operated, and old and new correspondence data between an old version server and a new version server is generated and used to execute switching from the old version server to the new version server in a flow on the network and to execute switching-back to the old version server by referring to the old and new correspondence data at the time of occurrence of fault in a new version.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yusuke Takano, Takashi Shimizu, Motoshi Tamura, Hidenori Asaba, Takeo Yamasaki, Masaaki Kosugi
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Patent number: 10120710Abstract: A virtual resource management node to seamlessly migrate a virtual machine with less influence on services in an NFV environment. A VIM is a VIM for managing each virtualized resource that is included in an NFV environment including virtualized resources including a physical machine in which a virtual machine having a VNF being a virtualized communication function is implemented, and the VIM includes a switching unit for switching a network flow from a virtual machine of a migration source to a virtual machine of a migration destination, or switching a system between an Active (ACT) system virtual machine of a migration source and a Standby (SBY) system virtual machine of a migration destination.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Masaaki Kosugi, Hidenori Asaba, Takeo Yamasaki, Ashiq Khan, Shigeru Iwashina, Takashi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20170220371Abstract: A virtual resource management node to seamlessly migrate a virtual machine with less influence on services in an NFV environment. A VIM is a VIM for managing each virtualized resource that is included in an NFV environment including virtualized resources including a physical machine in which a virtual machine having a VNF being a virtualized communication function is implemented, and the VIM includes a switching unit for switching a network flow from a virtual machine of a migration source to a virtual machine of a migration destination, or switching a system between an Active (ACT) system virtual machine of a migration source and a Standby (SBY) system virtual machine of a migration destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Masaaki KOSUGI, Hidenori ASABA, Takeo YAMASAKI, Ashiq KHAN, Shigeru IWASHINA, Takashi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20160364226Abstract: In an update management system including a plurality of servers executing a communication service, a server not connected to a network in which a new version of an application is operated is generated in parallel with a server in which an old version of the application is operated, and old and new correspondence data between an old version server and a new version server is generated and used to execute switching from the old version server to the new version server in a flow on the network and to execute switching-back to the old version server by referring to the old and new correspondence data at the time of occurrence of fault in a new version.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yusuke TAKANO, Takashi SHIMIZU, Motoshi TAMURA, Hidenori ASABA, Takeo YAMASAKI, Masaaki KOSUGI
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Patent number: 9484116Abstract: At least one general-purpose server is connected to a PE module via Ethernet (trademark). A control unit of the PE module controls a PE circuit and multiple fail memory in a real-time manner, temporarily stores fail information stored in the multiple fail memory, performs data processing on the fail information, and transfers the fail information thus processed to the general-purpose server. Each general-purpose server is controlled according to a computer program so as to perform redundancy analysis for a DUT based on the data received from the PE module.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: ADVANTEST CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki Kosugi, Takashi Ohguro, Michisuke Sakamoto, Toshiro Fujii, Takahiro Honma, Hideto Omori
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Patent number: 8509057Abstract: A communication system comprising a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus includes a communicating section that communicates with the second communication apparatus via a first data signal line; an alive signal receiving section that receives, via a first alive signal line, an alive signal indicating whether the second communication apparatus is in an alive state in which it is capable of communicating with the first communication apparatus; and a reset signal transmitting section that, when the second communication apparatus is not in the alive state, transmits a reset signal to the second communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventor: Masaaki Kosugi
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Publication number: 20120257467Abstract: A memory repair analysis apparatus that performs a repair analysis on a memory under test, comprising a row-oriented fail number storage section that stores the number of fail cells in each row; a column-oriented fail number storage section that stores the number of fail cells in each column; a row-weighting storage section that, for each row, stores the total number of fail cells in each column containing a fail cell included in the row; a column-weighting storage section that, for each column, stores the total number of fail cells in each row containing a fail cell included in the column; and a determining section that determines which of spare row regions and spare column regions are to replace the fail cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki Kosugi, Seiji KOIKE