Patents by Inventor Natsume Matsuzaki
Natsume Matsuzaki 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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Publication number: 20200302483Abstract: To provide an advertisement distribution method of determining a distribution destination of an advertisement of a product that has a low direct relevance to execution pieces of information collected from home appliances. The advertisement distribution method includes: a collecting step of collecting, from each of one or more of home appliances owned by each of users, one or more pieces of execution information each indicating a function that has been executed by the home appliance; a detecting step of, with respect to each user, detecting an unused function that has not been used in each home appliance by analyzing the collected pieces of execution information and functions of the home appliance; and a transmitting step of extracting a user who is expected to purchase a product based on a detection result, and transmitting an advertisement to one or more of the home appliances owned by the extracted user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Yuichi FUTA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Motoji OHMORI, Natsume MATSUZAKI, Masayuki KOZUKA, Masaya YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200287884Abstract: An intermediation method used in an intermediation system that includes an intermediation device determining a permission for application services requiring user authentication on a network, where in response to a user request, a first account used for a first service and a second account used for a second service, and a registration request for using the linking service linking the first application service and the second application service are associated with each other, when the two accounts are valid, as accounts usable in a linking service, an association between the first and second services is stored in the intermediation device, and when the user makes a request to use the linked services, that use is controlled by a query to the intermediation device regarding whether the account is associated as able to use the linking service.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaya YAMAMOTO, Natsume MATSUZAKI, Masayuki KOZUKA
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Patent number: 10719853Abstract: To provide an advertisement distribution method of determining a distribution destination of an advertisement of a product that has a low direct relevance to execution pieces of information collected from home appliances. The advertisement distribution method includes: a collecting step of collecting, from each of one or more of home appliances owned by each of users, one or more pieces of execution information each indicating a function that has been executed by the home appliance; a detecting step of, with respect to each user, detecting an unused function that has not been used in each home appliance by analyzing the collected pieces of execution information and functions of the home appliance; and a transmitting step of extracting a user who is expected to purchase a product based on a detection result, and transmitting an advertisement to one or more of the home appliances owned by the extracted user.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yuichi Futa, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Motoji Ohmori, Natsume Matsuzaki, Masayuki Kozuka, Masaya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10701048Abstract: An intermediation method used in an intermediation system that includes an intermediation device determining a permission for application services requiring user authentication on a network, where in response to a user request, a first account used for a first service and a second account used for a second service, and a registration request for using the linking service linking the first application service and the second application service are associated with each other, when the two accounts are valid, as accounts usable in a linking service, an association between the first and second services is stored in the intermediation device, and when the user makes a request to use the linked services, that use is controlled by a query to the intermediation device regarding whether the account is associated as able to use the linking service.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaya Yamamoto, Natsume Matsuzaki, Masayuki Kozuka
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Patent number: 10693905Abstract: An invalidity detection electronic control unit connected to a bus used by a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) to communicate with one another in accordance with controller area network (CAN) protocol includes a receiving unit that receives a frame for which transmission is started and a transmitting unit that transmits an error frame on the bus before a tail end of the frame is transmitted if the frame received by the receiving unit meets a predetermined condition indicating invalidity and transmits a normal frame that conforms to the CAN protocol after the error frame is transmitted. Even when a reception error counter of the ECU connected to the bus is incremented due to the impact of the error frame, the reception error counter is decremented by the normal frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Amano, Toshihisa Nakano, Natsume Matsuzaki, Tomoyuki Haga, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa
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Publication number: 20200119943Abstract: Address information of a mail to be transmitted by a mail communication function is extracted from the mail to be transmitted; a transmission time of the mail to be transmitted is extracted from a portable information terminal; and judgment is made as to whether the address information matches predetermined address information and whether the transmission time belongs to a predetermined time zone. When the address information matches the predetermined address information, and the address information belongs to the predetermined time zone, an activation time at which a household appliance is to be activated is determined on the basis of the transmission time, and a control command for activating the household appliance at the activation time is transmitted to a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Ayaka ICHIJO, Motoji OHMORI, Yuichi FUTA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Natsume MATSUZAKI
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Patent number: 10615986Abstract: A device in an authentication system acquires a certificate revocation list along with a control command from an operating terminal to the device. The device determines the validity of the controller to which the device connects, based on the certificate revocation list acquired along with the control command.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Motoji Ohmori, Natsume Matsuzaki, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Unagami
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Patent number: 10554434Abstract: Address information of a mail to be transmitted by a mail communication function is extracted from the mail to be transmitted; a transmission time of the mail to be transmitted is extracted from a portable information terminal; and judgment is made as to whether the address information matches predetermined address information and whether the transmission time belongs to a predetermined time zone. When the address information matches the predetermined address information, and the address information belongs to the predetermined time zone, an activation time at which a household appliance is to be activated is determined on the basis of the transmission time, and a control command for activating the household appliance at the activation time is transmitted to a network.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Ayaka Ichijo, Motoji Ohmori, Yuichi Futa, Yuji Unagami, Natsume Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20190340175Abstract: An information provision method includes accumulating, in a first database, a first identifier identifying each of one or more service providers, and first device information indicating an electrical device to be designated by each of the one or more service providers in association with each other; accumulating, in a second database, a second identifier identifying each of one or more users, and second device information indicating an electrical device to be used by the one or more users in association with each other; extracting a service provider associated with the first device information when the second device information is updated by addition of a new electrical device to be used by one of the one or more users, and when the new electrical device is included in the electrical devices indicated by the first device information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Yuji UNAGAMI, Natsume MATSUZAKI
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Publication number: 20190311402Abstract: An information providing method and apparatus a) transmits a request via a network, for recommended driving information for a first user to be received and displayed on a display of the first user, b) receives from the network driving data from a plurality of vehicles about how a plurality of users drive their vehicles including the first user, c) extracts a similar user from among the plurality of users who drives a vehicle with a predetermined similarity to how the first user drives a vehicle, and determines recommended driving information of the similar user from the similar user's driving history, d) transmits over the network to the first user the recommended driving information of the similar user, and e) displays on a display of the first user the recommended driving information of the similar user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Manabu MAEDA, Motoji OHMORI, Yuichi FUTA, Natsume MATSUZAKI, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Yuji UNAGAMI
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Patent number: 10411904Abstract: A first device, upon detecting participation in an authentication system, transmits new and old identification information of a first certificate revocation list that the first device manages to a second device. In a case where the new and old identification information of a second certificate revocation list that the second device manages is older than the new and old identification information of the received first certificate revocation list, the second device transmits a transmission request for the first certificate revocation list to the first device. Upon receiving the transmission request for the first certificate revocation list from the second device, the first device transmits the first certificate revocation list to the second device. the second device updates the second certificate revocation list using the received first certificate revocation list.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Natsume Matsuzaki, Motoji Ohmori, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuji Unagami, Yoshihiro Ujiie
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Patent number: 10402416Abstract: An information provision method includes accumulating, in a first database, a first identifier identifying each of one or more service providers, and first device information indicating an electrical device to be designated by each of the one or more service providers in association with each other; accumulating, in a second database, a second identifier identifying each of one or more users, and second device information indicating an electrical device to be used by the one or more users in association with each other; extracting a service provider associated with the first device information when the second device information is updated by addition of a new electrical device to be used by one of the one or more users, and when the new electrical device is included in the electrical devices indicated by the first device information.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yuji Unagami, Natsume Matsuzaki
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Patent number: 10380635Abstract: A first user among a plurality of users is associated with a second user having an evaluation tendency similar to evaluation data of the first user for management. Further, a third user is selected by a terminal device of the first user as a user having preference information that suits preference of the first user. The third user is associated with the first user and the second user for management. This configuration makes it possible to select not only a user automatically selected by a system but also another user whom a targeted user is interested in as a similar user, allowing provision of information that better suits hobby and preference of the targeted user.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Manabu Maeda, Motoji Ohmori, Yuichi Futa, Natsume Matsuzaki, Hideki Matsushima, Yuji Unagami
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Publication number: 20190215252Abstract: An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Motoji OHMORI, Natsume MATSUZAKI, Yuichi FUTA, Toshihisa NAKANO, Manabu MAEDA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Hiroshi AMANO, Kotaro HAKODA
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Patent number: 10303893Abstract: A data search method of a first device storing multiple sets of privacy data acquired from multiple persons and multiple reference features corresponding to the multiple sets of privacy data, where the multiple reference features each are expressed by an n-dimensional vector, includes receiving first encrypted features from a second device connected to the first device, generating multiple second converted features by a second conversion of the multiple reference features, generating of multiple second encrypted features by encrypting the multiple second converted features using inner product encryption, acquiring multiple inner product values by performing inner product computation of each of the first encrypted features and the multiple second encrypted features, determining whether or not the first features and the first reference features are similar, and transmitting of first privacy data corresponding to the first reference features out of the multiple sets of privacy data to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yuji Unagami, Natsume Matsuzaki, Shota Yamada, Nuttapong Attrapadung, Takahiro Matsuda, Goichiro Hanaoka
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Patent number: 10305324Abstract: A smart meter includes: a power supply control unit which causes stoppage of a supply of power passing through the smart meter to an television and so on, when an RD command to stop the supply is received; a first communication unit which performs a first communication through which the RD command is received; a second communication unit which performs a second communication; and a communication control unit which: causes the performance of the first communication before the RD command is received; and prohibit the performance of the first communication and cause only the performance of the second communication, after the RD command is received.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Hideki Matsushima, Natsume Matsuzaki, Tomoyuki Haga
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Patent number: 10284442Abstract: An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is stopped on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hideki Matsushima, Motoji Ohmori, Natsume Matsuzaki, Yuichi Futa, Toshihisa Nakano, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Unagami, Hiroshi Amano, Kotaro Hakoda
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Publication number: 20180337800Abstract: Address information of a mail to be transmitted by a mail communication function is extracted from the mail to be transmitted; a transmission time of the mail to be transmitted is extracted from a portable information terminal; and judgment is made as to whether the address information matches predetermined address information and whether the transmission time belongs to a predetermined time zone. When the address information matches the predetermined address information, and the address information belongs to the predetermined time zone, an activation time at which a household appliance is to be activated is determined on the basis of the transmission time, and a control command for activating the household appliance at the activation time is transmitted to a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Ayaka ICHIJO, Motoji OHMORI, Yuichi FUTA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Natsume MATSUZAKI
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Patent number: 10116454Abstract: In an authentication method according to the present disclosure, (1) a device transmits device history information with a CRL added thereto (hereinafter, device history information with added CRL) to a controller, (2) the controller transmits the device history information with added CRL to a server, and (3) if the version of the CRL included in the device history information with added CRL is older than the version of the CRL stored on the server, the server judges that the controller is unauthorized.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Motoji Ohmori, Natsume Matsuzaki, Hideki Matsushima, Yuji Unagami, Manabu Maeda, Yoshihiro Ujiie
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Patent number: 10069644Abstract: Address information of a mail to be transmitted by a mail communication function is extracted from the mail to be transmitted; a transmission time of the mail to be transmitted is extracted from a portable information terminal; and judgment is made as to whether the address information matches predetermined address information and whether the transmission time belongs to a predetermined time zone. When the address information matches the predetermined address information, and the address information belongs to the predetermined time zone, an activation time at which a household appliance is to be activated is determined on the basis of the transmission time, and a control command for activating the household appliance at the activation time is transmitted to a network.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Ayaka Ichijo, Motoji Ohmori, Yuichi Futa, Yuji Unagami, Natsume Matsuzaki