Patents by Inventor Masaaki Noro

Masaaki Noro 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: 11722368
    Abstract: A setting change method that causes a computer to execute processing includes: receiving a setting change request packet for a kernel from software operating over a container executed in one of OSs; acquiring identification information of one of communication modules that has received the setting change request packet, from the received setting change request packet; and referring to a storage unit that stores information indicating correspondence relationships between identification information of the OSs and the identification information of the communication modules in the OSs and determining the OS in which the container is operating based on the acquired identification information of the communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Patent number: 11575587
    Abstract: An inspection device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and configured to transmit, to a network, an inspection packet that includes a first address for which a plurality of transfer devices in a network does not learn correspondences between the first address and transfer destination devices. The first address is a transmission destination address. The inspection device receives a first packet from the network and determines whether the first packet matches the inspection packet. The inspection devices transmits, to the network, a setting packet of which a transmission source address is set to the first address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20220413990
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes acquiring a first log using a first program that monitors a first function for securing resources managed by an operating system (OS), the first log including information that allows for identification of a resource secured by software and a time point when the software secures the secured resource, acquiring a second log using a second program that monitors a second function for releasing the resources managed by the OS, the second log including information that allows for identification of a resource released by the software and a time point when the software releases the released resource, and outputting a first time point when the software secures a target resource in association with a second time point when the target resource is released, based on the first log and the second log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Patent number: 11477101
    Abstract: A method for calculating a communication time between a first and second devices includes: adding, to a first packet, first timer information indicating an elapsed time from activation of the first device, and transmitting the first packet; transmitting notification information including the first timer information and second timer information indicating an elapsed time from activation of the second device; transmitting a second packet including the first and second timer information, third timer information indicating an elapsed time from activation of the second device, and first time information indicating a time in the second device; and calculating a communication time from the first device to the second device based on the first timer information, the second timer information, the third timer information, and the first time information, fourth timer information indicating an elapsed time from activation of the first device, and second time information indicating a time in the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20220269520
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a factor identification process, the factor identification process includes detecting an occurrence time point when a system call of a host operating system (OS) has occurred, acquiring switching operation information that enables an environment switching time point to be identified, the environment switching time point being a time point when an environmental process has switched, the environmental process implementing a software execution environment which is in operation on the host OS and is isolated from the host OS, identifying, based on the switching operation information, a first environmental process which is in operation on the host OS at the occurrence time point, and outputting the first environmental process in association with the system call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: MASAO YAMAMOTO, Naoki OGUCHI, Masaaki Noro, Yosuke Takano
  • Publication number: 20220103441
    Abstract: An inspection device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit an inspection packet that includes, as a transmission destination address, a first address for which a plurality of transfer devices in a network does not learn correspondences between the first address and transfer destination devices, to the network, receive a first packet from the network, determine whether the first packet matches the inspection packet, and instruct to transmit a setting packet of which a transmission source address is set to the first address to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20210250235
    Abstract: A diagram generation method executed by a computer, includes acquiring, from each of a plurality of communication devices, device information including identification information set in a first network interface existing on a first network; identifying an internet protocol (IP) address set in a second network interface existing in a second network, the second network interface being included in a communication device which acquires the device information; store, in a memory, linked information in which the acquired device information and the IP address are associated with each other; and generating a network configuration diagram in which each of the plurality of communication devices sharing the IP address is an individual communication device by using the linked information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosuke Takano, Naoki OGUCHI, Masaaki Noro, Junichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20210226874
    Abstract: A method for calculating a communication time between a first and second devices includes: adding, to a first packet, first timer information indicating an elapsed time from activation of the first device, and transmitting the first packet; transmitting notification information including the first timer information and second timer information indicating an elapsed time from activation of the second device; transmitting a second packet including the first and second timer information, third timer information indicating an elapsed time from activation of the second device, and first time information indicating a time in the second device; and calculating a communication time from the first device to the second device based on the first timer information, the second timer information, the third timer information, and the first time information, fourth timer information indicating an elapsed time from activation of the first device, and second time information indicating a time in the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20210218627
    Abstract: A setting change method that causes a computer to execute processing includes: receiving a setting change request packet for a kernel from software operating over a container executed in one of OSs; acquiring identification information of one of communication modules that has received the setting change request packet, from the received setting change request packet; and referring to a storage unit that stores information indicating correspondence relationships between identification information of the OSs and the identification information of the communication modules in the OSs and determining the OS in which the container is operating based on the acquired identification information of the communication module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Patent number: 9915996
    Abstract: A method of controlling a processor includes determining an operational mode of the processor in a time period and an operational frequency of the processor in second data processing based on a completion deadline of the second data processing and an amount of data processing in the second data processing which is performed by the processor after first data processing is completed by the processor, the time period being from completion of the first data processing to start of the second data processing, controlling the processor in the determined operational mode after the first data processing is completed by the processor, and performing the second data processing using the processor that operates with the determined operational frequency after the controlling of the processor in the operational mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Patent number: 9875517
    Abstract: A data processing method performed by a first processor configured to control a second processor that performs a process of creating an image and has a plurality of operation modes with different power consumption levels, the data processing method includes setting a number related to a second period following a first period based on a number of first images created by the second processor during the first period; and switching an operation mode of the second processor to an operation mode in which power consumption is lower than a power consumption of an operation mode during creating the image, among the plurality of operation modes, when the number of second images created during the second period reaches the set number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masaaki Noro, Takeo Murakami
  • Patent number: 9811872
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first processor and a second processor, the first processor generates a first instruction, based on a first synchronization signal, the first instruction instructing that first partial image data regarding N partial regions of the plurality of partial regions are to be generated, the second processor generates the first partial image data based on the first instruction, the first processor is configured to determine a natural number M based on a time when the generation of the first partial image data is completed and a time when a second synchronization signal is generated, and generates, based on the second synchronization signal, a second instruction instructing that second image data regarding M partial regions of the plurality of partial regions are to be generated, and the second processor generates the second partial image data based on the second instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20170262038
    Abstract: A non-saving-subject process list creator creates a non-saving-subject process list on the basis of a list of processes in execution and a setting information storage unit. A saving-subject memory list creator then creates a saving-subject memory block list on the basis of the non-saving-subject process list. The data saving unit then saves the data in the swap area on the basis of the saving-subject memory block list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20170262390
    Abstract: A device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor configured to determine types of applications which are to be executed by the processor. The processor configured to create priority information representing a priority of each of the applications, based on the determined types of applications. The processor configured to perform a process that relates to the applications according to an order based on the priority information created by the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20170255407
    Abstract: A device includes a memory that stores save data used to execute an application on the device, and a processor that is coupled to the memory. The processor instructs termination of a resident application which is a periodically executed application when the device is to be transited to a hibernation state which indicates a standby state with storing the save data in the memory, and activates the resident application of which termination is instructed when resuming the device from the hibernation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20170255411
    Abstract: A pre-copy creator creates a copy of a memory area that is used by an application that is switched to a background and updates a memory management table. At a time of transition to a hibernation mode, an uncopied-area saving unit refers to the memory management table and creates a copy of a memory area that is used by the application and excludes the memory area of which the copy has been created by the pre-copy creator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Patent number: 9563931
    Abstract: A control method executed by an information processing device including a first processor and a second processor includes specifying a plurality of processes which issued orders for causing the first processor to execute a drawing process for drawing a frame, the plurality of processes being executed by the second processor, first determining whether the drawing process is completed, based on a comparison between the specified plurality of processes and specific processes, and controlling, based on a result of the first determining, a state regarding a power consumption of the first processor until the first processor starts another drawing process for drawing another frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeo Murakami, Masaaki Noro
  • Patent number: 9529404
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to set an operating frequency of the processor at a first value in response to an occurrence of a first event, when a second event occurs after the occurrence of the first event, to determine whether the second event occurs within a predetermined period after the occurrence of the first event, and when the second event occurs after the predetermined period, set the operating frequency at a second value, and when the second event occurs within the predetermined period, set the operating frequency at a third value higher than the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Patent number: 9526026
    Abstract: A method for controlling an information processing apparatus including a CPU that executes an application relevant to communication other than baseband processing, the method including controlling a variation in an operating frequency of the CPU, determining, using a processor, whether an amount of traffic per unit time of a wireless link changes after the variation in the operating frequency, and setting an operating frequency of the CPU based on a result of the determining whether an amount of traffic per unit time changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Noro
  • Publication number: 20160313942
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory, a first device, and a processor that operates in an active mode and a standby mode. The processor is configured to determine whether the first device is of a first type that operates in a period in which the processor is in the standby mode, allocate a first region of the memory for the first device when the first device is determined to be of the first type, and control, while the processor is operated in the standby mode, the first region to be operated in a first mode and a second region of the memory to be operated in a second mode, the first mode being a mode with which the first region is usable by the first device, and the second mode being a mode with which an electrical power consumption is lower than that of the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki NORO