Patents by Inventor Nobuharu Kami

Nobuharu Kami 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).

  • Patent number: 9519512
    Abstract: A virtual machine configuration system, comprising a virtualizer for, in a virtualization environment in which a plurality of physical resources connected mutually through a network circuit has been arranged on a computer system sectioned into a plurality of partitions, dynamically changing a physical resource configuration and a virtual machine configuration while simultaneously controlling a configuration of the physical resources of the partition and a configuration of virtual resources allotted to virtual machines without exerting an influence over an application service operating on the virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20160189546
    Abstract: An information processing device (10) having: a characteristic information acquisition unit (110) that acquires, as characteristic information for multiple parking spaces contained in a parking lot, the usage history and/or the physical characteristics of the parking spaces; an attribute associating unit (120) that assigns a usage trend attribute to the parking spaces, on the basis of the acquired characteristic information; and an output unit (130) that outputs a correspondence relationship between a parking space and the usage trend attribute assigned to that parking space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuharu KAMI, Kenichi YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160057561
    Abstract: A data collection and management system includes: a terminal(s) that transmits measured data; and a management apparatus that receives and manages the measured data transmitted from the terminal(s). The management apparatus includes a notification unit that notifies the terminal(s) of transmission cost information indicating a cost incurrable upon transmitting measured data to the management apparatus by the terminal(s). The terminal(s) includes: a calculation unit that calculates an information value indicating a value of measured data as information; and a transmission control unit that determines whether to transmit measured data to the management apparatus based on the information value and the transmission cost information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventor: Nobuharu KAMI
  • Publication number: 20150261195
    Abstract: An arrival time distribution control device, in an environment wherein users arrive at arbitrary times at a prescribed hub on the basis of compensation which is granted corresponding to each respective determination reference and arrival time, repeats, on the basis of the arrival times of the plurality of users who arrive at the prescribed hub, an arrival time distribution computation, and, for each the computation, on the basis of either a first difference between the current computed arrival time distribution and the previous computed arrival time distribution, or a third difference between the first difference and a second difference between the immediate previous computed arrival time distribution and the arrival time distribution computed prior to the previously computed arrival time distribution, causes fluctuations in the content of the compensation which is granted to the users who next arrive at the prescribed hub, reaching a target arrival time distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Patent number: 9116916
    Abstract: An information organizing system includes a reference information database storing reference information, a generalized expression unit to map measurement data and non-measurement data in a space in such a manner that the more they resemble each other, the shorter a distance between them becomes, an extended reference database in which the reference information is expressed in an extended manner by using the generalized expression unit, extended log data in which log data is expressed in an extended manner by using the generalized expression unit, a relevance detection unit to detect extended reference information having high relevance with the extended log data, and a template creation unit to create a predetermined template in which the log data is summarized by using the detected extended reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Patent number: 9104494
    Abstract: Optimization of resource allocation in a virtual computer system is efficiently performed according to a method consistent with a virtualization design concept. The virtual computer system includes a plurality of virtual devices that share the physical resources of a computer and execute an application, a virtualization section that manages the plurality of virtual devices, and a management section that controls the virtualization section. The plurality of virtual devices set allocation of physical resources to the applications by a first optimization calculation using resource supply information from the management section and transmit resource request information corresponding to the resource allocation setting to the management section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20150215742
    Abstract: In related technologies, when a paging request is made immediately after location registration, a larger paging area than necessary is determined. The technologies have also a problem in that a location registration area and a paging area are not determined in an appropriate manner to sufficiently deal with change in the moving characteristic of a mobile station. A mobile communication system (100) according to the present invention comprises: a movement prediction device (40) which predicts a moving state of a mobile station and, on the basis of the prediction result, creates a base station list consisting of base stations each corresponding to a cell having a high possibility of the mobile station's existence within it; and a movement management device (30) which determines a paging area on the basis of the base station list created by the movement prediction device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ikeda, Nobuharu Kami
  • Patent number: 9037588
    Abstract: An information organizing system includes a reference information database storing reference information, a generalized expression unit to map measurement data and non-measurement data in a space in such a manner that the more they resemble each other, the shorter a distance between them becomes, an extended reference database in which the reference information is expressed in an extended manner by using the generalized expression unit, extended log data in which log data is expressed in an extended manner by using the generalized expression unit, a relevance detection unit to detect extended reference information having high relevance with the extended log data, and a template creation unit to create a predetermined template in which the log data is summarized by using the detected extended reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Patent number: 8938357
    Abstract: The characteristic point detection system of this invention includes: a staying area detection unit 1003 which performs clustering based on distribution of data points contained in GPS log data of a user, determines an index showing a staying time of the user in a cluster based on a number of data points contained in each cluster, extracts one or more clusters based on the index, and forms a staying area of the user based on the extracted clusters, wherewith a cluster is extracted with higher probability as the staying time is longer; a representative point extraction unit 1004 which extracts, one at a time, a representative point of the staying area from each of the extracted staying areas, and determines a score of each of the representative points based on density of the data points in each of the staying areas; and an output unit 1005 which outputs a list ranking each of the representative points based on the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20140324870
    Abstract: In order to detect similar data from a great deal of data at high speed, a similarity detecting apparatus includes a random number generating unit 3 which calculates random number data based on a parameter list, a table managing unit 5 which calculates a plurality of key calculation functions based on the random number data, calculates a plurality of tables based on input data, and calculates a candidate data list based on a query shown by a search condition, and a data processing unit 6 which calculates search result data from the candidacy data list to satisfy the condition shown a search condition. Each table is calculated for a value corresponding to a key to show a data list of data in which the data substituted into a key calculation function is equal to the key. A candidate data list contains a plurality of search data list and a search data list corresponding to the table shows the value corresponding to a query value obtained by substituting the query into the key calculation function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Patent number: 8667488
    Abstract: A lower system structure reports performance information to an upper system structure. When detecting performance deterioration of the system structure on the basis of the reported performance information, the upper system structure optimizes resource redistribution of the system structure that the upper system structure manages. If the performance is improved by the optimization in the managed system structure, the optimization results is applied to the resource control of the lower system structure, and the lower system structure redistributes the resources according to the resource control. If the performance is not improved by the optimization, the lower system structure reports the performance information to the upper system structure, which optimizes the resource redistribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20140059250
    Abstract: A network system of the present invention includes a computer and a device connected via a network, and a system management device. The computer and the device include, respectively, bridges that encapsulate transmission/reception data transmitted and received to and from each other and transmit and receive the data to and from each other via the network. Each of the bridges includes a control data transmitting means for generating control data for controlling the state of the system based on control auxiliary data issued from the computer or the device and used for controlling the state of the system, and transmitting the control data to the system management device via the network. The system management device includes a system controlling means for controlling the state of the system in accordance with the control data received thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Suzuki, Youichi Hidaka, Junichi Higuchi, Takashi Yoshikawa, Teruyuki Baba, Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20140018099
    Abstract: A mobile node includes: a status acquiring unit for acquiring status information; and a communication module for transmitting the status information to a mobile management server. The mobile management server includes: an input/output unit for receiving the status information from the mobile node; a management data creating unit for analyzing changes in the distribution of the status information, thereby calculating, as characteristic parts, parts having high distribution densities; and a request processing unit for outputting information about the calculated characteristic part. The management data creating unit includes: a node data registering function for storing the status information; a label calculating function for calculating a label in which the status information is multiplexed; and a characteristic part extracting function for extracting, in descending order of distribution density, characteristic parts representative of parts having high label distribution densities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20130185294
    Abstract: A recommender system includes: an input section 103 configured to receive a search request from a user; a user managing section 104 configured to manage context information representing a characteristic of the user; an index-table managing section 105 configured to output an information object related to the search request of the user; a user-authority-value managing section 106 configured to calculate, on the basis of similarity between users calculated from comparison of the context information of the user and another user and reliability from a plurality of users for the other user, an authority value representing reliability from the user for the other user; a rating calculating section 107 configured to calculate an evaluation value of the user for the information object using a value obtained by weighting an evaluation value of the other user for the information object according to the authority value of the other user; and a ranked-list creating section 108 configured to output a list of information ob
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20130173764
    Abstract: A management server has: a terminal state management unit that manages state information transmitted from information terminals and including information on an information terminal and a user associated with each information terminal; and a network configuration management unit that selects adjacent information terminals of each information terminal based on the state information of each information terminal managed by the terminal state management unit, and calculates a connection link, which is a network for interconnecting adjacent information terminals, wherein the information terminal has: an internal state management unit that manages the state information of the information terminal; an adjacent management unit that manages information on adjacent information terminals selected by the network configuration management unit; and a messaging unit that stores a message acquired from an adjacent information terminal via the connection link and a message inputted by the user in a message box opened to the ot
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20130054602
    Abstract: The characteristic point detection system of this invention includes: a staying area detection unit 1003 which performs clustering based on distribution of data points contained in GPS log data of a user, determines an index showing a staying time of the user in a cluster based on a number of data points contained in each cluster, extracts one or more clusters based on the index, and forms a staying area of the user based on the extracted clusters, wherewith a cluster is extracted with higher probability as the staying time is longer; a representative point extraction unit 1004 which extracts, one at a time, a representative point of the staying area from each of the extracted staying areas, and determines a score of each of the representative points based on density of the data points in each of the staying areas; and an output unit 1005 which outputs a list ranking each of the representative points based on the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20120310938
    Abstract: An information organizing system includes a reference information database storing reference information, a generalized expression unit to map measurement data and non-measurement data in a space in such a manner that the more they resemble each other, the shorter a distance between them becomes, an extended reference database in which the reference information is expressed in an extended manner by using the generalized expression unit, extended log data in which log data is expressed in an extended manner by using the generalized expression unit, a relevance detection unit to detect extended reference information having high relevance with the extended log data, and a template creation unit to create a predetermined template in which the log data is summarized by using the detected extended reference information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Publication number: 20120030306
    Abstract: In a virtualized computer system having at least two computers connected via a network, the service suspension period while a virtual device is dynamically migrated from a first computer to a second computer is shortened. When the virtual device is migrated from the first physical device to the second physical device, memory data existing in an area mapped in the main memory of the first physical device is mapped in a high-speed storage device that is made available to the first physical device. The memory data is copied into an area that is registered in the second physical device but is made unavailable to the second physical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami
  • Patent number: 7856572
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: storage means containing component information on the components constituting a system having a predetermined function; and processing means for calculating a combination of components necessary for constituting a system required for a service according to the component information, calculating risk information as information on the risk that a physical failure affects the service request for the combination of the components and/or fragment information as information on the deflection degree of the use condition of the components, and ranking the selected component combinations according to a predetermined policy, calculated list information and/or the fragment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuharu Kami, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20100131957
    Abstract: Optimization of resource allocation in a virtual computer system is efficiently performed according to a method consistent with a virtualization design concept. The virtual computer system includes a plurality of virtual devices that share the physical resources of a computer and execute an application, a virtualization section that manages the plurality of virtual devices, and a management section that controls the virtualization section. The plurality of virtual devices set allocation of physical resources to the applications by a first optimization calculation using resource supply information from the management section and transmit resource request information corresponding to the resource allocation setting to the management section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Nobuharu Kami