Patents by Inventor Mototsugu Iwasa

Mototsugu Iwasa 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).

  • Method of forwarding electronic mail and a mailing system
    Publication number: 20020175939
    Abstract: In an electronic mailing system, a client terminal displays on a screen, a list of mails received by the user of the client terminal and a plurality of destination icons in association with the name of mail recipients, wherein when one of the received mails is overlapped on one of the destination icons through a drag and drop operation on the screen, the selected mail is forwarded to a destination address previously registered in association with the overlapped destination icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventor: Mototsugu Iwasa
  • Method of forwarding electronic mail and a mailing system
    Patent number: 6437806
    Abstract: In an electronic mailing system, a client terminal displays on a screen, a list of mails received by the user of the client terminal and a plurality of destination icons in association with the name of mail recipients, wherein when one of the received mails is overlapped on one of the destination icons through a drag and drop operation on the screen, the selected mail is forwarded to a destination address previously registered in association with the overlapped destination icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mototsugu Iwasa
  • Business process simulation system
    Patent number: 5999724
    Abstract: A simulation system in a work flow control system confirms whether or not prepared business process defining information is valid. The simulation system receives as an input thereto a false case including a name of a document, an attribute name belonging to the document, and attribute values to be selected; virtually moves the false case from a node to another node according to the business process defining information, simulates a process conducted in each node, and generates a journal of these processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mototsugu Iwasa, Hiromasa Nemoto, Hirofumi Kondoh, Hirotoshi Ise
  • Business process simulation system
    Patent number: 5887154
    Abstract: A simulation system in a work flow control system confirms whether or not prepared business process defining information is valid. The simulation system receives as an input thereto a false case including a name of a document, an attribute name belonging to the document, and attribute values to be selected; virtually moves the false case from a node to another node according to the business process defining information, simulates a process conducted in each node, and generates a journal of these processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mototsugu Iwasa, Hiromasa Nemoto, Hirofumi Kondoh, Hirotoshi Ise