Patents by Inventor Masami Kinugasa

Masami Kinugasa 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: 7359942
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that executes processing of a message transmitted among a plurality of sites connected via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a message reception part that receives a message to execute a prescribed piece of reception processing, a rule accumulation part for accumulating rules to execute message processing, a message conversion part for executing conversion processing of a message according to the rules accumulated in the rule accumulation part, and a message transmission part for executing a prescribed piece of transmission processing of the post-conversion message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Accenture Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumasa Mizushima, Masami Kinugasa, Zenta Watanabe, Masakatsu Mori, Fumio Koyama, Nobuaki Katsuya, Koji Hagioda, Haruyo Endo, Yukihiro Fukuta
  • Publication number: 20080040124
    Abstract: A business process system for transmitting and receiving various pieces of business data by connecting an indefinitely large number of enterprises through a network includes a client terminal possessed by an order source connected to an open network layer, equipped with an application for realizing a peer-to-peer network architecture, and serving as a member participating in the peer-to-peer network, an order reception database connected to a network layer inside an order reception base as a segment isolated from the open network layer, equipped with the application, connecting to the client terminal by a peer-to-peer connection upon execution of the application by the client terminal, recording data sent from the client terminal, and reading data to be sent out of the recorded data, and a node connected to an intermediate network layer at the order reception base serving as a segment isolated from the open network layer and from the inside network layer, collecting and temporally maintaining the data sent fr
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicants: Sony Chemicals & Information Device Corporation, Ariel Networks Inc., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Kinugasa, Seiichiro Inoue, Takahiro Hidaka, Hiroki Ohtani, Yuuki Shibuya, Tomoki Iwaoka
  • Publication number: 20050171870
    Abstract: A concentrated physical distribution management system to be used in the delivery of ordered cargo to a destination is configured as a site capable of communicating mutually by using communication network lines. The site is provided with a database server. The internal processing section of the database server is composed of, at least, a shipping instruction processing section for instructing the delivery of the ordered cargo to the destination collectively including a physical distribution trader, a physical distribution expense calculation processing section for calculating physical distribution expenses necessary for the delivery of the cargo to the destination, and a cargo tracking processing section for indicating the delivery status of the cargo. The concentrated physical distribution management system manages the cargo so that all of shipping instruction concerning the cargo can be transmitted to the physical distribution trader only by accessing a portal site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Yasumasa Mizushima, Masami Kinugasa, Keiichi Yumita, Takeshi Nakamura, Zenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20050171871
    Abstract: A concentrated physical distribution management system to be used in the delivery of ordered cargo to a destination is configured as a site capable of communicating mutually by using communication network lines. The site is provided with a database server. The internal processing section of the database server is composed of, at least, a shipping instruction processing section for instructing the delivery of the ordered cargo to the destination collectively including a physical distribution trader, a physical distribution expense calculation processing section for calculating physical distribution expenses necessary for the delivery of the cargo to the destination, and a cargo tracking processing section for indicating the delivery status of the cargo. The concentrated physical distribution management system manages the cargo so that all of shipping instruction concerning the cargo can be transmitted to the physical distribution trader only by accessing a portal site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Yasumasa Mizushima, Masami Kinugasa, Keiichi Yumita, Takeshi Nakamura, Zenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20030126021
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that executes processing of a message transmitted among a plurality of sites connected to one another via a network can be provided. The information processing apparatus comprises a message reception part that receives a message to thereby execute a prescribed piece of reception processing, a rule accumulation part for accumulating rules therein to execute message processing, a message conversion part for executing conversion processing of a message according to the rules accumulated in said rule accumulation part, and a message transmission part for executing a prescribed piece of transmission processing of the post-conversion message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Yasumasa Mizushima, Masami Kinugasa, Zenta Watanabe, Masakatsu Mori, Eumio Koyama, Nobuaki Katsuya, Koji Hagioda, Haruyo Endo, Yukihiro Fukuta
  • Publication number: 20030101106
    Abstract: A concentrated physical distribution management system to be used in the delivery of ordered cargo to a destination is configured as a site capable of communicating mutually by using communication network lines. The site is provided with a database server. The internal processing section of the database server is composed of, at least, a shipping instruction processing section for instructing the delivery of the ordered cargo to the destination collectively including a physical distribution trader, a physical distribution expense calculation processing section for calculating physical distribution expenses necessary for the delivery of the cargo to the destination, and a cargo tracking processing section for indicating the delivery status of the cargo. The concentrated physical distribution management system manages the cargo so that all of shipping instruction concerning the cargo can be transmitted to the physical distribution trader only by accessing a portal site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Yasumasa Mizushima, Masami Kinugasa, Keiichi Yumita, Takeshi Nakamura, Zenta Watanabe