Patents by Inventor Motohiro Ohama

Motohiro Ohama 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).

  • SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SERVER PROVIDING METHOD
    Publication number: 20120324437
    Abstract: In service providing apparatus and method, system identification data for specifying a service target device and the user of the device concerned are issued to the device concerned, and authentication processing is carried out on the basis of the system identification data to provide a service to the device concerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Sakaguchi, Tomihiko Nakajima, Yoshifumi Ueno, Tetsuo Sasaki, Osamu Aoki, Akinori Iida, Masayuki Kobuna, Shinichiro Taya, Kazuhiro Gotoh, Toshiyuki Gotoh, Motohiro Ohama
  • Service providing apparatus and server providing method
    Patent number: 8300819
    Abstract: In service providing apparatus and method, system identification data for specifying a service target device and the user of the device concerned are issued to the device concerned, and authentication processing is carried out on the basis of the system identification data to provide a service to the device concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Sakaguchi, Tomihiko Nakajima, Yoshifumi Ueno, Tetsuo Sasaki, Osamu Aoki, Akinori Iida, Masayuki Kobuna, Shinichiro Taya, Kazuhiro Gotoh, Toshiyuki Gotoh, legal representative, Motohiro Ohama
  • Registering device and method, information processing device and method, providing device and method, and program storage medium
    Patent number: 7487225
    Abstract: On receiving from a personal computer (1) a request for transmitting data for displaying a picture for inputting a user's profile in association with an MGID and an APID for specifying the personal computer (1), an EMD registration server (3) selects data recorded in correspondence to the APID based on the received APID and transmits the selected data to the personal computer (1). The EMD registration server (3) receivers the user's profile inputted based on the data from the personal computer (1) and records the user's profile in correspondence to the MGID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nishibe, Hirokazu Tsuchiya, Takuya Kajikawa, Atsushi Sakaida, Minoru Nagata, Motohiro Ohama, Yoshimichi Kitaya, Yoshihiro Tamura
  • Information providing system, apparatus and method, and program storing medium
    Patent number: 7174461
    Abstract: An information providing system, an information providing apparatus, an information providing method, and a program storing medium makes it possible to always provide provision information suitable for personal user information about a user regardless a user's terminal the user uses. Provided are a user identifying means 12 for identifying a user, a user information taking-out means 13 for taking out personal user information about the identified user from a user information storage means 16, a control information creating means 14 for creating control information based on the taken-out user information, and a provision information supplying means 22 for creating provision information suitable for the personal user information on the basis of the control information and supplying it to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Nagata, Motohiro Ohama
  • Registering device and method, information processing device and method, providing device and method, and program storage medium
    Publication number: 20050076096
    Abstract: On receiving from a personal computer (1) a request for transmitting data for displaying a picture for inputting a user's profile in association with an MGID and an APID for specifying the personal computer (1), an EMD registration server (3) selects data recorded in correspondence to the APID based on the received APID and transmits the selected data to the personal computer (1). The EMD registration server (3) receivers the user's profile inputted based on the data from the personal computer (1) and records the user's profile in correspondence to the MGID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nishibe, Hirokazu Tsuchiya, Takuya Kajikawa, Atsushi Sakaida, Minoru Nagata, Motohiro Ohama, Yoshimichi Kitaya, Yoshihiro Tamura
  • Service providing apparatus and server providing method
    Publication number: 20040010685
    Abstract: In service providing apparatus and method, system identification data for specifying a service target device and the user of the device concerned are issued to the device concerned, and authentication processing is carried out on the basis of the system identification data to provide a service to the device concerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Sakaguchi, Tomihiko Nakajima, Yoshifumi Ueno, Tetsuo Sasaki, Osamu Aoki, Akinori Iida, Masayuki Kobuna, Shinichiro Taya, Kazuhiro Gotoh, Motohiro Ohama
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program storage medium
    Publication number: 20020023259
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes a recording controlling element for controlling recording of first data about a developer developing an information processing program, a first providing element for providing information about the development of the information processing program, a judging element for judging whether the information processing program functions normally after being developed by the developer about whom the first data have been recorded and a second providing element for providing the information processing program if the program is judged to function normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Kimiko Abe, Yuko Katano, Motohiro Ohama, Masahiko Takahashi, Masaki Takase, Makoto Noguchi, Ryo Aoki
  • Information providing system, apparatus and method, and program storing medium
    Publication number: 20020016927
    Abstract: An information providing system, an information providing apparatus, an information providing method, and a program storing medium makes it possible to always provide provision information suitable for personal user information about a user regardless a user's terminal the user uses. Provided are a user identifying means 12 for identifying a user, a user information taking-out means 13 for taking out personal user information about the identified user from a user information storage means 16, a control information creating means 14 for creating control information based on the taken-out user information, and a provision information supplying means 22 for creating provision information suitable for the personal user information on the basis of the control information and supplying it to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Minoru Nagata, Motohiro Ohama