Patents by Inventor Masahiro Yoshiasa

Masahiro Yoshiasa 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).

  • Gateway server in which picture contents can be displayed in small terminal, and processing speed is fast, and manufacturing cost is cheap, and method of obtaining contents
    Patent number: 7203766
    Abstract: A gateway server includes a convert section and an output section. The convert section converts a first contents into a second contents. The first contents is received from a contents server in response to a request of a small terminal. The second contents corresponds to a display performance of a display section of the small terminal. The output section outputs the second contents to the small terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshiasa
  • Content acquiring device, method, and system using valid terms to keep a cache up-to-date
    Patent number: 6976057
    Abstract: To provide a content acquiring device, a content acquiring method, a content server and a content acquiring system which can minimize an acquisition request for content data and can acquire content data having a current version as much as possible. By using a validity term previously held by the content acquiring device or a validity term of the content added during content acquisition, it is previously decided in the device whether the content are to be updated or not, thereby transmitting an acquisition request to be an access to a content server for storing content data requested to be acquired through a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshiasa
  • Contents acquiring device, contents acquiring method, contents server and contents acquiring system
    Publication number: 20010025305
    Abstract: To provide a contents acquiring device, a contents acquiring method, a contents server and a contents acquiring system which can minimize an acquisition request for contents data and can acquire contents data having a current version as much as possible. By using a valid term previously held by the contents acquiring device or a valid term of the contents added during contents acquisition, it is previously decided in the device whether the contents are to be updated or not, thereby transmitting an acquisition request to be an access to a contents server for storing contents data requested to be acquired through a network infra.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshiasa
  • Gateway server in which picture contents can be displayed in small terminal, and processing speed is fast, and manufacturing cost is cheap, and method of obtaining contents
    Publication number: 20010007998
    Abstract: A gateway server includes a convert section and an output section. The convert section converts a first contents into a second contents. The first contents is received from a contents server in response to a request of a small terminal. The second contents corresponds to a display performance of a display section of the small terminal. The output section outputs the second contents to the small terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshiasa