Patents by Inventor Nao Funane
Nao Funane 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).
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Patent number: 11928560Abstract: A system monitoring a plurality of models generated through machine learning includes a monitoring unit that perform warning of a specific item of an input corresponding to a predetermined condition if a prediction result by a first model using the input including a plurality of values satisfies the predetermined condition, and a provision unit that provides a message prompting setting of a condition which is a monitoring target by the monitoring unit in the specific item with regard to a second model different from the first model. The provision unit provides the message in at least one of a case in which the predetermined condition is set for the first model, a case in which the prediction result by the first model is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, and a case in which the second model is registered in the system.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 11477191Abstract: A system including a mobile terminal having an authenticator, a TPM with tamper resistance and a voice assistant. The voice assistant makes a process request corresponding to voice input of a user to a server in accordance with the input, receives a biometric authentication request from the server, makes a request for a biometric authentication process to the mobile terminal of the user in accordance with the request for biometric authentication via wireless communication, and transmits an authentication result from the mobile terminal to a server. The mobile terminal executes the biometric authentication process using biometric information stored in the authenticator and the TPM in accordance with the request for the biometric authentication process from the voice assistant, and transmits an authentication result to the voice assistant.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 11405390Abstract: A device management system issues key information for a client tenant that is identified according to input of identification information of a network device via a screen, and, when a key type of the key information received from the network device is reconnection and the network device that is a source from which the key information is sent is a network device that has been managed with the client tenant associated with the key information, send, to the network device, authentication information to reconnect the network device to the device management system.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 11245598Abstract: A system manages information about, and used in services provided to, a network device belonging to a customer. The system creates a first customer tenant in a tenant management service of a tenant for a first customer, registers identification information about a network device belonging to the first customer to the first customer tenant, and issues registration completion to a service system that provides the services. The system receives a registration request, creates a second customer tenant managing a network device belonging to a second customer, and registers identification information about the network device to the second customer tenant. The system causes the tenant management service to register a new tenant for the network device that transmitted the registration request and identification information about the transmitting network device, and issues a completion event to the service system in response to a notifying reply, from the tenant management service, indicating completion.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 10911446Abstract: A voice assistant requests a first terminal among a plurality of terminals to execute an authentication process, receives a result of the authentication process from one of the plurality of terminals, and transmits the result of the authentication to a service providing system as response to the authentication request in a case in which an authentication request is accepted from the service providing system. Each of the plurality of terminals executes a biometric authentication process using user's biometric information read by the biometric information sensor using an authenticator if a request from the voice assistant is received and responds to the voice assistant with a result of the biometric authentication process. The voice assistant requests a second terminal other than the first terminal among the plurality of terminals to execute an authentication process if a predetermined condition is satisfied after requesting the first terminal to execute the authentication process.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20210012241Abstract: A system monitoring a plurality of models generated through machine learning includes a monitoring unit that perform warning of a specific item of an input corresponding to a predetermined condition if a prediction result by a first model using the input including a plurality of values satisfies the predetermined condition, and a provision unit that provides a message prompting setting of a condition which is a monitoring target by the monitoring unit in the specific item with regard to a second model different from the first model. The provision unit provides the message in at least one of a case in which the predetermined condition is set for the first model, a case in which the prediction result by the first model is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, and a case in which the second model is registered in the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20200076801Abstract: A device management system issues key information for a client tenant that is identified according to input of identification information of a network device via a screen, and, when a key type of the key information received from the network device is reconnection and the network device that is a source from which the key information is sent is a network device that has been managed with the client tenant associated with the key information, send, to the network device, authentication information to reconnect the network device to the device management system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20190349270Abstract: A system manages information about, and used in services provided to, a network device belonging to a customer. The system creates a first customer tenant in a tenant management service of a tenant for a first customer, registers identification information about a network device belonging to the first customer to the first customer tenant, and issues registration completion to a service system that provides the services. The system receives a registration request, creates a second customer tenant managing a network device belonging to a second customer, and registers identification information about the network device to the second customer tenant. The system causes the tenant management service to register a new tenant for the network device that transmitted the registration request and identification information about the transmitting network device, and issues a completion event to the service system in response to a notifying reply, from the tenant management service, indicating completion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20190165937Abstract: A voice assistant requests a first terminal among a plurality of terminals to execute an authentication process, receives a result of the authentication process from one of the plurality of terminals, and transmits the result of the authentication to a service providing system as response to the authentication request in a case in which an authentication request is accepted from the service providing system. Each of the plurality of terminals executes a biometric authentication process using user's biometric information read by the biometric information sensor using an authenticator if a request from the voice assistant is received and responds to the voice assistant with a result of the biometric authentication process. The voice assistant requests a second terminal other than the first terminal among the plurality of terminals to execute an authentication process if a predetermined condition is satisfied after requesting the first terminal to execute the authentication process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20190109847Abstract: A system including a mobile terminal having an authenticator, a TPM with tamper resistance and a voice assistant. The voice assistant makes a process request corresponding to voice input of a user to a server in accordance with the input, receives a biometric authentication request from the server, makes a request for a biometric authentication process to the mobile terminal of the user in accordance with the request for biometric authentication via wireless communication, and transmits an authentication result from the mobile terminal to a server. The mobile terminal executes the biometric authentication process using biometric information stored in the authenticator and the TPM in accordance with the request for the biometric authentication process from the voice assistant, and transmits an authentication result to the voice assistant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 9826036Abstract: In the present invention, as functions of a web browser, the web browser extracts, among local storage data stored in a storage area, local storage data as a deletion candidate according to one or more conditions, and deletes the local storage data extracted as the deletion candidate from the storage area.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 9531611Abstract: A device management apparatus in a device management system storing and managing first client information on a client and a device installed in a client network of the client, acquires incident data from a incident management apparatus in a incident management system which is in accordance with second client information different from the first client information, and identifies, from the first client information, a client corresponding to the incident data based on identification information of a target device (i.e., a device ID) included in the incident data.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20150312345Abstract: In the present invention, as functions of a web browser, the web browser extracts, among local storage data stored in a storage area, local storage data as a deletion candidate according to one or more conditions, and deletes the local storage data extracted as the deletion candidate from the storage area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 8922824Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an address book management application which receives from a client PC an instruction as to address data stored in an HDD of an image forming apparatus. When the instruction is a backup instruction, the address book management application acquires the address data from an address data storage area, creates a backup file from the acquired address data, and stores the created backup file in a backup area of the HDD. When the instruction is a restore instruction, the address book management application restores the backup file stored in the backup area, as the address data in the address data storage area.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20140126023Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an address book management application which receives from a client PC an instruction as to address data stored in an HDD of an image forming apparatus. When the instruction is a backup instruction, the address book management application acquires the address data from an address data storage area, creates a backup file from the acquired address data, and stores the created backup file in a backup area of the HDD. When the instruction is a restore instruction, the address book management application restores the backup file stored in the backup area, as the address data in the address data storage area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20140108866Abstract: A device management apparatus in a device management system storing and managing first client information on a client and a device installed in a client network of the client, acquires incident data from a incident management apparatus in a incident management system which is in accordance with second client information different from the first client information, and identifies, from the first client information, a client corresponding to the incident data based on identification information of a target device (i.e., a device ID) included in the incident data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 8689216Abstract: Information of a user group used to distribute the execution result of a job of an image forming apparatus is held in a memory. The execution result of the job appended with result appropriating destination information required to specify a user group to which the execution result of the job is to be appropriated is received from the image forming apparatus. The execution result of the job is distributed to at least one user group specified by the result appropriating destination information appended to the received execution result of the job. Billing management of job execution associated with a plurality of groups can be adequately made.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 8654367Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an address book management application which receives from a client PC an instruction as to address data stored in an HDD of an image forming apparatus. When the instruction is a backup instruction, the address book management application acquires the address data from an address data storage area, creates a backup file from the acquired address data, and stores the created backup file in a backup area of the HDD. When the instruction is a restore instruction, the address book management application restores the backup file stored in the backup area, as the address data in the address data storage area.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 8564820Abstract: According to the present invention, an apparatus that communicates with a data management system sets a condition for acquiring data from the data management system, collects data of an image forming device, adds a key matching the set condition to the collected data, and transmits the data to which the key is added, to the data management system.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane
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Patent number: 8223400Abstract: If different settings are performed for a user to control usage of functions provided by an image forming apparatus, a management apparatus detects whether resources relating to these settings accord with each other to confirm any conflict between these settings. A plugin management unit detects whether a resource relating to a setting by a plugin B, which is to be installed from a plugin management table, accords with a resource relating to a setting by a plugin A.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nao Funane