Patents by Inventor Naoki HIGO
Naoki HIGO 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: 12084332Abstract: In a production system 100, containers have hollow main bodies 1a having openings at their top parts and caps 1b for closing the openings. The production system 100 includes a conveyor line L for conveying the containers 1, a capper 5 for attaching the caps 1b to the main bodies 1a of the containers 1 on the conveyor line L, a reading apparatus 18 configured to read first information attached to top surfaces of the caps 1b of the containers 1 for identifying the containers 1 on the conveyor line L at one or more predetermined points after the capper 5, and a memory apparatus 52 configured to store linked together the first information of the containers 1, second information attached to the main bodies 1a of the containers 1 for identifying the main bodies 1a, and times at which the containers 1 passed the one or more predetermined points.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Tatsutoshi Higo, Naoki Furukawa, Takahiro Matsuzaki, Yohei Shirakawa
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Patent number: 12028725Abstract: A message relay apparatus and a message relay method that achieve high message reachability taking communication network situation into consideration are provided. A message relay apparatus 100 interposed between an application 20 and a device 30 includes a device communication state determination functional unit 131 that determines communication availability with the device 30, a network state estimation unit 133 that estimates a network state based on the communication availability, and a message processing unit 110 that determines forwarding availability of an application message based on the network state and buffers the application message when forwarding is not available.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kojun Koshiji, Naoki Higo, Takuma Tsubaki, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Takeshi Kuwahara, Masanao Nakano, Yuki Yano, Takao Kurahashi
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Patent number: 11977450Abstract: Backup system and method that can determine a backup destination in consideration of disaster are provided. There are provided: a data acquisition unit 110 that acquires disaster information, network information, and node information; a replication group construction unit 130 that generates, based on the disaster information, and the like, replication group information including association information between a first node that stores original data and one or more second nodes that are candidates for backup destination of the original data, and saves the replication group information in a storage unit 120; a replication destination node calculation unit 140 that, when executing backup of the original data, calculates the second node as backup destination from the replication group; and a replication processing unit 230 that replicates and stores the original data into the storage of the second node.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takuma Tsubaki, Ryota Ishibashi, Kotaro Ono, Yuki Nakahara, Takeshi Kuwahara, Naoki Higo, Kenta Kawakami, Yusuke Urata
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Patent number: 11875192Abstract: A system and method capable of efficiently using and operating resources and allowing a cluster satisfying requirements of functions/services provided to terminals to be configured of multi-access edge computing (MEC) servers are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kotaro Ono, Naoki Higo, Takuma Tsubaki, Yusuke Urata, Ryota Ishibashi, Kenta Kawakami, Takeshi Kuwahara
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Patent number: 11863462Abstract: A resource allocation device includes: a course estimation unit that estimates a course of each mobile terminal based on a location of a mobile terminal acquired from a network device, and estimates a probability that each mobile terminal is located in each area at time of prediction; a determination unit that calculates, for each area, the number of mobile terminals in the area using the probability and determines whether the maximum value of an overcommit ratio for each area exceeds an upper limit; and an execution unit that executes the allocation or release of resources to an MEC server group located in each area when the maximum value of the overcommit ratio is equal to or less than the upper limit, and refrains from executing the allocation or release of the resources to the MEC server group when the maximum value of the overcommit ratio exceeds the upper limit.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kotaro Ono, Ryota Ishibashi, Takuma Tsubaki, Naoki Higo, Yuki Nakahara, Takeshi Kuwahara
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Patent number: 11575731Abstract: A data transmission apparatus causes a computer to receive first data and second data, each of which has a different transmission destination, evaluate relevance between the first data and the second data, and transmit the first data and the second data to the respective transmission destinations, and the transmitting of the data further includes transmitting the first data to the transmission destination of the second data in accordance with evaluation results obtained in the evaluating of the relation, so that a diversity of the data that can be collected by the transmission destination of the data is increased.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kojun Koshiji, Naoki Higo, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Masanao Nakano, Tatsuya Ishihara, Yoshiko Sueda
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Publication number: 20230007919Abstract: A control device includes an information acquisition unit that receives a source address of a packet from a node that receives the packet transmitted from a user terminal, and acquires position information about the user terminal on a basis of the source address, a determination unit that determines a hub to which the user terminal should connect, on a basis of the position information, and a control execution unit that launches an application in the hub and changes a routing such that packets transmitted from the user terminal are transmitted to the application.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Naoki HIGO, Ryota ISHIBASHI, Yuki Nakahara, Takeshi KUWAHARA
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Patent number: 11546545Abstract: A video management device includes a storage processing unit configured to store video data received through a network in a storage unit, a calculation unit configured to classify a video data group stored in the storage unit based on combinations of imaging locations and content of video data, and to calculate a frequency of appearance of each of the combinations, and a selection unit configured to select video data to be deleted from the storage unit based on the frequency of appearance, thereby increasing a possibility that the deletion of a high-value video will be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Tsubaki, Naoki Higo, Kojun Koshiji, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Takeshi Kuwahara
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Patent number: 11467797Abstract: Provided is a virtual world construction system that does not impair consistency between virtual worlds and places only small loads on terminals. A client application 10 that is implemented on a user terminal, a plurality of server applications 20 that are implemented on servers, and a proxy 30 that is located on a communication path between the user terminal and the servers and relays operation information and video information are provided. The proxy 30 includes a motion duplication unit 31 that transmits operation information to the plurality of servers by duplicating the operation information, and a video integration/rendering control unit 32 that transmits timing information regarding rendering timing to the plurality of servers, and transmits video information received from at least one of the servers, to the user terminals.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Naoki Higo, Ryota Ishibashi, Takuma Tsubaki, Kojun Koshiji, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Takeshi Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20220255878Abstract: A resource allocation device 2 includes: a course estimation unit 23 that estimates a course of each mobile terminal 5 based on network information about a location of a mobile terminal 5 acquired from a network device 4, and estimates a probability that each mobile terminal 5 is located in each area at time of prediction; a determination unit 24 that calculates, for each area, the number of mobile terminals 5 in the area using the probability and determines whether the maximum value of an overcommit ratio for each area calculated based on the number of mobile terminals 5 in the area exceeds an upper limit; and an execution unit 25 that executes the allocation or release of resources to an MEC server group 3 located in each area when the maximum value of the overcommit ratio is equal to or less than the upper limit, and refrains from executing the allocation or release of the resources to the MEC server group 3 when the maximum value of the overcommit ratio exceeds the upper limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Kotaro ONO, Ryota ISHIBASHI, Takuma TSUBAKI, Naoki HIGO, Yuki NAKAHARA, Takeshi KUWAHARA
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Publication number: 20220210673Abstract: A message relay apparatus and a message relay method that achieve high message reachability taking communication network situation into consideration are provided. A message relay apparatus 100 interposed between an application 20 and a device 30 includes a device communication state determination functional unit 131 that determines communication availability with the device 30, a network state estimation unit 133 that estimates a network state based on the communication availability, and a message processing unit 110 that determines forwarding availability of an application message based on the network state and buffers the application message when forwarding is not available.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Kojun Koshiji, Naoki Higo, Takuma TSUBAKI, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Takeshi Kuwahara, Masanao Nakano, Yuki YANO, Takao KURAHASHI
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Patent number: 11368389Abstract: Communication quality is improved by performing, with a computer, determining whether redundancy of a communication path is necessary or not and a compression level of data based on communication quality associated with transfer of the data; compressing data to be transferred in accordance with the compression level determined; and a transmission step of, when it is determined that redundancy of the communication path is necessary, making the communication path redundant and transmitting the data to each of the resulting communication paths.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Naoki Higo, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Yoshiko Sueda
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Patent number: 11350244Abstract: An information delivery technique for, at the time of delivery of area information via a network, delivering area information about a destination before a device arrives at the destination is disclosed. One aspect of the present disclosure is an information delivery apparatus including a delivery information management function unit configured to manage area information to be delivered, a destination management function unit configured to manage a destination of a device, and a communication function unit configured to deliver the area information to the device, wherein the destination management function unit determines the destination of the device using movement information about the device, and the communication function unit delivers area information about the destination to the device before the device moves to the destination.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kojun Koshiji, Naoki Higo, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Masanao Nakano, Tatsuya Ishihara, Yoshiko Sueda
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Patent number: 11349586Abstract: A time providing method includes: by a computer, upon receiving data from a device, estimating a generation time of the data using a reception time of the data and a first delay time of the device previously estimated; providing information indicating the generation time to the data; and transmitting the data provided with the information indicating the generation time to a destination of the data.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kojun Koshiji, Naoki Higo, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Masanao Nakano, Tatsuya Ishihara, Yoshiko Sueda
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Publication number: 20220129328Abstract: A distributed system that uses, in a network, a plurality of computational resources to perform processing on data includes an assignment unit that assigns data to a plurality of data processing units, and a determination unit that collects a data processing time in each data processing unit and a communication time between the assignment unit and each data processing unit, determines assignment of data to each data processing unit based on the data processing time and the communication time that are collected, and notifies the assignment unit of information on the determined assignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Naoki HIGO, Takuma TSUBAKI, Yusuke URATA, Kotaro ONO, Kenta KAWAKAMI, Ryota ISHIBASHI, Takeshi KUWAHARA
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Publication number: 20220114029Abstract: A system and method capable of efficiently using and operating resources and allowing a cluster satisfying requirements of functions/services provided to terminals to be configured of MEC servers are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Naoki Higo, Takuma TSUBAKI, Yusuke Urata, Ryota Ishibashi, Kenta Kawakami, Takeshi Kuwahara
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Patent number: 11297283Abstract: A video management apparatus includes a storage processing unit configured to store, in a storage unit, video data received through a network, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not video data groups stored in the storage unit are analyzed based on a first period of time indicating a period of time until a free capacity becomes insufficient in the storage unit and a second period of time indicating a maximum analysis time required for analysis of the video data groups, a first calculation unit configured to analyze the video data groups to calculate a predetermined statistic in a case where it is determined that the video data groups are analyzed, and a deletion unit configured to delete the analyzed video data groups.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Tsubaki, Naoki Higo, Kojun Koshiji, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Takeshi Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20220083425Abstract: Backup system and method that can determine a backup destination in consideration of disaster are provided. There are provided: a data acquisition unit 110 that acquires disaster information, network information, and node information; a replication group construction unit 130 that generates, based on the disaster information, and the like, replication group information including association information between a first node that stores original data and one or more second nodes that are candidates for backup destination of the original data, and saves the replication group information in a storage unit 120; a replication destination node calculation unit 140 that, when executing backup of the original data, calculates the second node as backup destination from the replication group; and a replication processing unit 230 that replicates and stores the original data into the storage of the second node.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Takuma TSUBAKI, Ryota ISHIBASHI, Kotaro ONO, Yuki NAKAHARA, Takeshi KUWAHARA, Naoki HIGO, Kenta KAWAKAMI, Yusuke URATA
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Publication number: 20220027116Abstract: Provided is a virtual world construction system that does not impair consistency between virtual worlds and places only small loads on terminals. A client application 10 that is implemented on a user terminal, a plurality of server applications 20 that are implemented on servers, and a proxy 30 that is located on a communication path between the user terminal and the servers and relays operation information and video information are provided. The proxy 30 includes a motion duplication unit 31 that transmits operation information to the plurality of servers by duplicating the operation information, and a video integration/rendering control unit 32 that transmits timing information regarding rendering timing to the plurality of servers, and transmits video information received from at least one of the servers, to the user terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Naoki Higo, Ryota Ishibashi, Takuma TSUBAKI, Kojun Koshiji, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Takeshi Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20210399980Abstract: Communication quality is improved by performing, with a computer, a determination step of determining whether redundancy of a communication path is necessary or not and a compression level of data based on communication quality associated with transfer of the data; a compression step of compressing data to be transferred in accordance with the compression level determined in the determination step; and a transmission step of, when it is determined that redundancy of the communication path is necessary in the determination step, making the communication path redundant and transmitting the data to each of the resulting communication paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Naoki HIGO, Toshimitsu TSUBAKI, Yoshiko SUEDA