Patents by Inventor Naotsugu Hiroki

Naotsugu Hiroki 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).

  • Purchase request approving apparatus, method, and storage medium storing same
    Patent number: 6910018
    Abstract: In a client-server environment in which a plurality of clients are connected on a network, a manager of a company displays an approval request list window (07-01-00) in which a list of purchase-requested articles is displayed, on a client by a predetermined operation, selects a desired article from the articles displayed in the window, and clicks a software button “approval select” or “rejection select” in accordance with approval or rejection of the selected article. At this time, the article for which approval is selected can be formally ordered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Masayuki Sofue, Naotsugu Hiroki, Masahiro Yamamoto, Masaya Watanuki, Satoshi Takenaka