Patents by Inventor Nagaaki HOSHI

Nagaaki HOSHI 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: 10935667
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: a distribution target determination unit configured to determine that a terminal located within a first predetermined range and detected by a first detection technique (e.g. GPS) is a first distribution target terminal and that a terminal located within and detected by a second detection technique (e.g. beacon) is a second distribution target terminal, where the second predetermined range is included in the first predetermined range; a distribution request acquisition unit configured to acquire a distribution request from a distribution requester terminal; and an information distribution unit configured to distribute information corresponding to the distribution request to at least the first distribution target terminal, the first distribution target terminal not overlapping with the second distribution terminal, or the second distribution target terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagaaki Hoshi, Lin Zhong, Kenji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10467620
    Abstract: The following processes are performed: a control process for issuing a VP card such that information on a card number is associated with information on at least a user ID, a value, and an expiration date, a control process for, regarding a VP card specified as a gift target by the first user, newly associating between the VP card and a user ID of the second user other than the first user, a process of setting a return condition regarding the VP card specified as a gift target, a control process for displaying information on usage status of the given VP card to the second user on condition that login with a user ID of the first user is completed, and a process of performing a control for at least invalidating the association between the virtual prepaid card and the user ID of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Mikuriya, Jing Chen, Nagaaki Hoshi, Jumpei Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 10217136
    Abstract: A distribution control device includes a selection screen presentation processing part which displays a selection screen on a user terminal, a content generation part which generates terminal-determinable content to which a source code is added, a terminal information management part, a target terminal setting part, and a distribution processing part which distributes the terminal-determinable content based on the distribution target terminal type. The terminal information management part manages a terminal type answered based on the selection screen as answer information for each user, and accumulates and manages a terminal type determined according to a browsing of the distributed terminal-determinable content as terminal determination information for each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Mikuriya, Nagaaki Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20180113220
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: a distribution target determination unit configured to determine that a terminal located within a first predetermined range and detected by a first detection technique (e.g. GPS) is a first distribution target terminal and that a terminal located within and detected by a second detection technique (e.g. beacon) is a second distribution target terminal, where the second predetermined range is included in the first predetermined range; a distribution request acquisition unit configured to acquire a distribution request from a distribution requester terminal; and an information distribution unit configured to distribute information corresponding to the distribution request to at least the first distribution target terminal, the first distribution target terminal not overlapping with the second distribution terminal, or the second distribution target terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagaaki HOSHI, Zhong Lin, Kenji NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170221046
    Abstract: The following processes are performed: a control process for issuing a VP card such that information on a card number is associated with information on at least a user ID, a value, and an expiration date, a control process for, regarding a VP card specified as a gift target by the first user, newly associating between the VP card and a user ID of the second user other than the first user, a process of setting a return condition regarding the VP card specified as a gift target, a control process for displaying information on usage status of the given VP card to the second user on condition that login with a user ID of the first user is completed, and a process of performing a control for at least invalidating the association between the virtual prepaid card and the user ID of the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun MIKURIYA, Jing CHEN, Nagaaki HOSHI, Jumpei HARAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170076333
    Abstract: A distribution control device includes a selection screen presentation processing part which displays a selection screen on a user terminal, a content generation part which generates terminal-determinable content to which a source code is added, a terminal information management part, a target terminal setting part, and a distribution processing part which distributes the terminal-determinable content based on the distribution target terminal type. The terminal information management part manages a terminal type answered based on the selection screen as answer information for each user, and accumulates and manages a terminal type determined according to a browsing of the distributed terminal-determinable content as terminal determination information for each user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun MIKURIYA, Nagaaki HOSHI