Patents by Inventor Masateru INOUE

Masateru INOUE 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).

  • Publication number: 20220343261
    Abstract: An arrangement apparatus (10) includes: an acquisition unit (111) configured to acquire the number of tasks and the number of human resources who address the tasks; a calculation unit (112) configured to calculate a result of arranging the human resources to each of the tasks to Pareto-optimize a first element and a second element, based at least on a first evaluation value related to the first element that is to be emphasized when the human resources are arranged for the tasks and a second evaluation value related to the second element that is an element to be emphasized when the human resources are arranged for the tasks and is different from the first element; and an output unit (113) configured to output an arrangement result calculated by the calculation unit (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide TAKASUKA, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Tomoko SHIBATA, Masateru INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220156672
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a registration processing unit configured to register, in a storage device, a work node made up of basic blocks, corresponding to respective processes, connected to each other by a link, the work node including a first node indicating a device/tool used by a worker for performing their work, a second node indicating the worker, a third node indicating a process that is a unit of the work activity, and a fourth node indicating a work target object of the worker in the process; and an analysis processing unit configured to execute analysis processing of analyzing at least one of a history of a work activity performed by a predetermined worker, a history of a work activity performed on a predetermined work target object, and a history indicating a worker and a work target object related to a predetermined work, based on the work node registered in the storage device by the registration processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki SHOJI, Masateru INOUE, Tomoko SHIBATA, Hiroshi YOSHIDA