Patents by Inventor Nobuaki Ozaki

Nobuaki Ozaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240103885
    Abstract: To support appropriate selection of a configuration of a cloud system. A computer system includes a processor 111, a storage apparatus 112 and an input/output apparatus 141, the storage apparatus 112 stores at least configuration condition information 132 indicating evaluation values for system configurations that can be constructed on cloud, the input/output apparatus 141 accepts a configuration request indicating a condition for a system configuration to be constructed on the cloud, the processor 111 obtains an evaluation value corresponding to the configuration request, compares the evaluation value corresponding to the configuration request with the evaluation values of the configuration condition information and determines a candidate for a system configuration to be proposed on the basis of a result of the comparison, and the input/output apparatus 141 outputs the candidate for the system configuration to be proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuaki OZAKI, Shinichi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11836055
    Abstract: An arrangement combination of a backup repository satisfying an arrangement constraint rule is calculated based on business system configuration information related to a configuration of a business system server included in a management target, backup repository configuration information which is information related to a configuration of a repository server for storing the backup data, input backup setting information, and the arrangement constraint rule for determining an arrangement of backup data according to a backup purpose, Estimated are a processing time of predetermined backup for an arrangement of the backup repository and a processing time of predetermined restoration for an arrangement of the backup repository and a restoration purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kaori Nakano, Shinichi Hayashi, Nobuaki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10002025
    Abstract: A computer system comprises: a server transmitted an input/output processing request; a storage apparatus comprising input/output processing units capable of processing the input/output processing request, and the logical volumes; a management computer managed the storage apparatus; and a particular processor managed a particular resource group, wherein the particular processor is configured to: calculate a load balancing plan when a load on a first resource comprised in the particular resource group is excessive, to distribute a part of the load on the first resource to a second resource comprised in the particular resource group; output the load balancing plan in a manner that allows the load balancing plan to be displayed; and distribute the load on the first resource to the second resource by following the load balancing plan, when an instruction to execute the load balancing plan is received as a result of outputting the load balancing plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuaki Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20180052729
    Abstract: Provided is a management computer that has a processor, an input device, an output device, and a storage device, and manages a plurality of computer systems. This management computer is provided with a countermeasure procedure plan generation module that generates a countermeasure procedure plan for changing the state of parts of the plurality of computer systems. This countermeasure procedure plan generation module generates a countermeasure procedure plan according to a constraint in which among the plurality of computer systems or parts thereof, the effect on higher-ranking computer systems or the parts thereof is smaller than the effect on lower-ranking computer systems or the parts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuaki OZAKI
  • Patent number: 9852007
    Abstract: A system management method for a management computer coupled to a computer system, the computer system including a plurality of computers, an operations system being built thereon the computer system, the operations system including a plurality of task nodes each having allocated thereto computer resources, the system management method including: a step of analyzing a configuration of the computer system for specifying a important node, which is an important task node in the operations system; a step of changing an allocation amount of the computer resources allocated to the important node for measuring a load of the operations system; a step of calculating a first weighting representing a strength of associations among the plurality of task nodes based on a measurement result of the load; and a step of specifying a range impacted by a change in the load of the important node based on the calculated first weighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Tameshige, Yutaka Kudou, Tomohiro Morimura, Takeshi Teramura, Daisuke Iizuka, Nobuaki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 9712404
    Abstract: In performance estimation when the configuration of a computer system is changed, the influence, on performance, of a temporary increase in load to a computer system due to reallocation of a process request allocated to a degenerated server to another server as a result of server degeneration is taken into consideration. In an embodiment, an information processing device which evaluates the performance of the computer system estimates the performance of the computer system when operation of a server included in the computer system is stopped based on the throughput required for the server at the time of operation stop and outputs the estimated performance of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Ozaki, Daisuke Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20160371121
    Abstract: A computer system comprises: a server transmitted an input/output processing request; a storage apparatus comprising input/output processing units capable of processing the input/output processing request, and the logical volumes; a management computer managed the storage apparatus; and a particular processor managed a particular resource group, wherein the particular processor is configured to: calculate a load balancing plan when a load on a first resource comprised in the particular resource group is excessive, to distribute a part of the load on the first resource to a second resource comprised in the particular resource group; output the load balancing plan in a manner that allows the load balancing plan to be displayed; and distribute the load on the first resource to the second resource by following the load balancing plan, when an instruction to execute the load balancing plan is received as a result of outputting the load balancing plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuaki OZAKI
  • Patent number: 9513957
    Abstract: A plurality of process content is retained, said process content including identifiers of a plurality of part content included in each process and information which denotes dependencies among the plurality of part content. When information is inputted which designates a first process and the part content of a problem portion which is included in the first process, a process similar to the first process is retrieved. On the basis of whether there is a change in any of the plurality of part content which is included in the retrieved process, an evaluation value of the retrieved process is either incremented or decremented, and the information relating to the plurality of processes is outputted on the basis of the evaluation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Ozaki, Daisuke Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20160188373
    Abstract: A system management method for a management computer coupled to a computer system, the computer system including a plurality of computers, an operations system being built thereon the computer system, the operations system including a plurality of task nodes each having allocated thereto computer resources, the system management method including: a step of analyzing a configuration of the computer system for specifying a important node, which is an important task node in the operations system; a step of changing an allocation amount of the computer resources allocated to the important node for measuring a load of the operations system; a step of calculating a first weighting representing a strength of associations among the plurality of task nodes based on a measurement result of the load; and a step of specifying a range impacted by a change in the load of the important node based on the calculated first weighting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi TAMESHIGE, Yutaka KUDOU, Tomohiro MORIMURA, Takeshi TERAMURA, Daisuke IIZUKA, Nobuaki OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160127204
    Abstract: In performance estimation when the configuration of a computer system is changed, the influence, on performance, of a temporary increase in load to a computer system due to reallocation of a process request allocated to a degenerated server to another server as a result of server degeneration is taken into consideration. In an embodiment, an information processing device which evaluates the performance of the computer system estimates the performance of the computer system when operation of a server included in the computer system is stopped based on the throughput required for the server at the time of operation stop and outputs the estimated performance of the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki OZAKI, Daisuke IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20150355935
    Abstract: A plurality of process content is retained, said process content including identifiers of a plurality of part content included in each process and information which denotes dependencies among the plurality of part content. When information is inputted which designates a first process and the part content of a problem portion which is included in the first process, a process similar to the first process is retrieved. On the basis of whether there is a change in any of the plurality of part content which is included in the retrieved process, an evaluation value of the retrieved process is either incremented or decremented, and the information relating to the plurality of processes is outputted on the basis of the evaluation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki OZAKI, Daisuke IIZUKA
  • Patent number: 6956104
    Abstract: Provided is a protein used in the development of a therapeutic agent for neuron- or endocrine cell-related diseases, in which the transport system is involved. The protein has an amino acid sequence with one or more amino acids deleted, substituted, inserted or added relative to the amino acid sequence set forth under SEQ ID NO:1 in the Sequence Listing and which has a property to interact with GDP/GTP exchange factor II.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignees: JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Seino, Tadao Shibasaki, Nobuaki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 6790949
    Abstract: Provided is a protein used in the development of a therapeutic agent for neuron- or endocrine cell-related diseases, in which the transport system is involved. The protein has an amino acid sequence with one or more amino acids deleted, substituted, inserted or added relative to the amino acid: sequence set forth under SEQ ID NO:1 in the Sequence Listing and which has a property to interact with GDP/GTP exchange factor II.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignees: JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Seino, Tadao Shibasaki, Nobuaki Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20030049661
    Abstract: Provided is a protein used in the development of a therapeutic agent for neuron- or endocrine cell-related diseases, in which the transport system is involved. The protein has an amino acid sequence with one or more amino acids deleted, substituted, inserted or added relative to the amino acid sequence set forth under SEQ ID NO: 1 in the Sequence Listing and which has a property to interact with GDP/GTP exchange factor II.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Susumu Seino, Tadao Shibasaki, Nobuaki Ozaki