Patents by Inventor Minoru Kushida

Minoru Kushida 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: 8346797
    Abstract: A search device and an information providing system are structured, to lessen a user's operation load, such that a crawling portion executes a crawling while sequentially changing an expansion header indicating a voice display capacity in an HTTP request into a voice display capacity of a typical model within each of model groups, and registers the obtained result in a search index in correspondence to the model name within the model group, a search service providing portion executes a search from the search index in correspondence to a search condition like a key word from a cellular phone terminal unit and the model name in the HTTP request, and a response portion generates a search result in correspondence to a template, and sends to a Web browser of the cellular phone terminal unit via an HTTP server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
    Inventors: Osamu Kurai, Kentaro Okada, Satoru Tanaka, Masaharu Ejiri, Minoru Kushida, Nobuyuki Imamura, Ayako Kanno, Akihito Kiuchi
  • Publication number: 20070073648
    Abstract: A search device and an information providing system are structured, to lessen a user's operation load, such that a crawling portion executes a crawling while sequentially changing an expansion header indicating a voice display capacity in an HTTP request into a voice display capacity of a typical model within each of model groups, and registers the obtained result in a search index in correspondence to the model name within the model group, a search service providing portion executes a search from the search index in correspondence to a search condition like a key word from a cellular phone terminal unit and the model name in the HTTP request, and a response portion generates a search result in correspondence to a template, and sends to a Web browser of the cellular phone terminal unit via an HTTP server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Vodafone K.K.
    Inventors: Osamu Kurai, Kentaro Okada, Satoru Tanaka, Masaharu Ejiri, Minoru Kushida, Nobuyuki Imamura, Ayako Kanno, Akihito Kiuchi