Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Kimura
Nobuhiro Kimura 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: 12204328Abstract: A wireless mobile object 1 includes: a response unit 32 that responds to a call received through a voice channel over a mobile communication network; and a control unit 36 that controls an action of the wireless mobile object, based on maneuver information received through the voice channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shuji Kimura, Ryo Nagaoka, Takato Toda, Nobuhiro Kimura, Takashi Yasunaga, Taichi Osada, Kaori Isagai, Yasuharu Yamashita
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Patent number: 12204927Abstract: In an updating method according to the present embodiment, a virtual machine (50-1A) is stopped, a virtual machine (50-1B) is started up using a new VM image (30-1B) to which a link to a database (20-1) is set, and the virtual machine (50-1B) is switched to an active system. A virtual machine (50-0A) is stopped and a virtual machine (50-0B) is started up using a new VM image (30-0B) to which a link to a database (20-0) is set.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takato Toda, Nobuhiro Kimura, Kotaro Mihara
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Patent number: 12192862Abstract: A control system including: a first wireless telephone terminal; a second wireless telephone terminal; and a wireless mobile object. The first wireless telephone terminal includes a call placement/reception unit that establishes a voice channel over a mobile communication network with the second wireless telephone terminal and the wireless mobile object by using a multi-point call function of controlling a voice call among a plurality of points. A control unit controls the wireless mobile object by transmitting a control signal to the wireless mobile object through the voice channel, and transmits, to the second wireless telephone terminal through the voice channel, a change signal for changing a user who maneuvers the wireless mobile object when strength of radio waves from the wireless mobile object decreases to less than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ryo Nagaoka, Masahiko Noguchi, Shuji Kimura, Nobuhiro Kimura, Taichi Osada, Takashi Yasunaga, Takato Toda, Ruriko Matsuura
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Patent number: 12135557Abstract: The present invention enables generating a desired target travel path intended by a user or the like without the need for various input works for the type, width, and the like of a work machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Kohei Ogura, Nobuhiro Kimura
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Patent number: 12061044Abstract: A natural gas liquefying apparatus is provided. At least a part of a cooling region, in which a precooling unit and a liquefaction unit are arranged, and at least a part of a compression region, in which first and second compressors compressing refrigerants to be used in the precooling unit and the liquefaction unit are arranged, are arranged to be opposed to each other across a long side of a second refrigerant cooler group arrangement region in which a liquefying refrigerant is cooled. A first refrigerant cooler group arrangement region, in which a precooling refrigerant is cooled, is arranged so that a long side of the first refrigerant cooler group arrangement region is opposed to one side of a rectangular region including the compression region, the one side being different from a side of the rectangular region opposed to a long side of the second refrigerant cooler group arrangement region.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Akito Hirai, Nobuhiro Kimura, Hideto Hagiya, Shinichi Tojo, Junichi Nishida, Tomoaki Matsuo, Ayaka Uemura
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Patent number: 12026067Abstract: The present invention aims to reduce the amount of backup to be transferred, and reduce the recovery time, in the case of a server device built in a virtual environment. A VM 10 connects a plurality of volumes 21 and 22, starts up software installed on the volume 21 from the volume 21, stores DB data in the volume 22, and acquires snapshots of the volumes 21 and 22 at different intervals for each, thereby backing up the images 31 and 32.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: I Syu, Nobuhiro Kimura, Kotaro Mihara
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Publication number: 20240118975Abstract: A call control system includes a management device (30) which manages one or more virtual machines (10) operating on a virtualization platform. The virtual machine (10) includes a volume (12) in which an OS, an MW, and an APL which are not updated in operation are installed, a volume (13) in which data which is updated in operation is arranged, and a recovery unit (11) which transmits an image acquisition request for the volume (13) to the management device (30). The management device (30) includes a management unit (31) which creates the virtual machine (10) by arranging an image file including an OS, an MW, and an APL to the volume (12) and arranging an image file including data which is updated while the virtual machine (10) is operating to the volume (13) and a backup unit (32) which backs up the volume (13) as an image file in response to an image acquisition request from the virtual machine (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Takato TODA, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Kotaro MIHARA
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Patent number: 11954121Abstract: A selection device includes a storage unit and a selection unit. The storage unit stores the write time and the read time of each of a plurality of nodes. The selection unit selects a first response condition in response to a data write request on the basis of the write time of each of the plurality of nodes such that the response time for the data write request becomes shorter than a requirement value of the write time and the number of nodes in which writing has been completed increases. The selection unit selects a second response condition in response to a data read request on the basis of the first response condition and the read time of each of the plurality of nodes such that the response time for the data read request becomes shorter than a requirement value of the read time.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: I Syu, Nobuhiro Kimura, Kotaro Mihara
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Patent number: 11936514Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a virtualization control unit configured to virtualize hardware, and a network providing unit configured to provide a network function by using a resource virtualized by the virtualization control unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kotaro Mihara, Toshifumi Sano, Nobuhiro Kimura, Minoru Sakuma
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Patent number: 11825017Abstract: An IA server includes a plurality of execution units that execute respective virtual machines of a plurality of disaster recovery stations corresponding one-to-one to a plurality of active stations. The plurality of disaster recovery stations includes a virtualized call control server that performs call processing when an active station is not operating, and a control unit that controls an operation of the virtual machines. The control unit activates, at normal times, the virtual machines, and deactivates, when any active station of the plurality of active stations is not operating, a virtual machine of a disaster recovery station of the plurality of disaster recovery stations other than a virtual machine of a disaster recovery station of the plurality of disaster recovery stations corresponding to the active station not operating, and operates only the virtual machine of the disaster recovery station corresponding to the active station not operating.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takato Toda, Nobuhiro Kimura, Minoru Sakuma, Kotaro Mihara
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Patent number: 11803452Abstract: A duplex operation system including: a plurality of general-purpose devices on each of which a plurality of virtual machines are mounted; and a virtual machine controller that controls a duplex operation performed by two systems, an active system and a standby system, of the virtual machines. When detecting a failure of the active system, the virtual machine controller stops the virtual machine of the active system, activates the virtual machine of the standby system corresponding to the stopped active system, and reconfigures the standby system of the activated virtual machine on the hardware of the stopped virtual machine, and when detecting a failure in the virtual machine of the reconfigured standby system, the virtual machine controller reconfigures the standby system of the failed virtual machine on the general-purpose device 13 different from the general-purpose device 11 in which the virtual machine of the active system has been stopped.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takato Toda, Nobuhiro Kimura, Kotaro Mihara
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Publication number: 20230179966Abstract: A smishing prevention system includes a reception unit that receives an SMS message, a determination unit that determines whether or not a source phone number of the SMS message is a phone number registered in a company information database, a registration unit that registers a determination result in a communication history database, and a presentation unit that presents the determination result to a destination terminal of the SMS message.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Ruriko MATSUURA, Shuji KIMURA, Taichi OSADA, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Takashi YASUNAGA, Masahiko NOGUCHI, Ryo NAGAOKA, Takato TODA
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Patent number: 11652683Abstract: A failure notification system includes a logical configuration provider which provides logical configurations in which a plurality of types of hardware are virtualized, a processor using logical configurations provided from the logical configuration provider, and a failure notifier which notifies the processor 3 of a failure in the logical configuration provider. A notifier includes a storage device 10 which stores hardware configuration data in which an ID of the hardware is associated with an ID of a logical configuration corresponding to the hardware, a logical configuration identifier which identifies a logical configuration corresponding to hardware from which a failure is detected from the hardware configuration data when a failure in the hardware is detected, and a notifier which notifies the processor of occurrence of a failure in the logical configuration identified by the logical configuration identifier.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kotaro Mihara, Toshifumi Sano, Nobuhiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20230081290Abstract: A virtual machine control device 20 includes: an external disk 22 that has recorded thereon initialization information including user data and application software for each virtual machine 11; and a restart control unit 21 that, when a failure in which a reboot of an OS is executed without a restart escalation for expanding an initialization range in stages occurs in a virtual machine 110 of an active system (ACT), stops a duplexed operation, causes another general-purpose device 10x to load the initialization information for the virtual machine 110 of an active system that has stopped and to reboot an OS and also causes a virtual machine 111 of a standby system (SBY) that has stopped the duplexed operation to load the initialization information for the virtual machine 111 and to reboot an OS, and sets as an active system the general-purpose device 10x that has started up first, and sets as standby system a general-purpose device 101 that has started up later.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Kotaro MIHARA, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Minoru Sakuma, Takato TODA
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Publication number: 20230075573Abstract: An IA server (call control apparatus) 31 includes a plurality of execution units 311A to 311C that execute respective virtual machines of a plurality of disaster recovery stations corresponding one-to-one to a plurality of active stations including a call control server that performs call processing at normal times, the plurality of disaster recovery stations including a virtualized call control server that performs call processing when an active station is not operating, and a control unit 312 that controls an operation of the virtual machines of the plurality of disaster recovery stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Takato TODA, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Minoru Sakuma, Kotaro MIHARA
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Publication number: 20230008133Abstract: A control system including: a first wireless telephone terminal; a second wireless telephone terminal; and a wireless mobile object, wherein the first wireless telephone terminal includes a call placement/reception unit that establishes a voice channel over a mobile communication network with the second wireless telephone terminal and the wireless mobile object by using a multi-point call function of controlling a voice call among a plurality of points, and a control unit that controls the wireless mobile object by transmitting a control signal to the wireless mobile object through the voice channel, and that transmits, to the second wireless telephone terminal through the voice channel, a change signal for changing a user who maneuvers the wireless mobile object when strength of radio waves from the wireless mobile object decreases to less than a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Ryo NAGAOKA, Masahiko NOGUCHI, Shuji KIMURA, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Taichi OSADA, Takashi YASUNAGA, Takato TODA, Ruriko MATSUURA
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Publication number: 20220365528Abstract: A wireless mobile object 1 includes: a response unit 32 that responds to a call received through a voice channel over a mobile communication network; and a control unit 36 that controls an action of the wireless mobile object, based on maneuver information received through the voice channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Shuji Kimura, Ryo Nagaoka, Takato Toda, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Takashi Yasunaga, Taichi Osada, Kaori Isagai, Yasuharu Yamashita
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Publication number: 20220358140Abstract: A selection device includes a storage unit and a selection unit. The storage unit stores the write time and the read time of each of a plurality of nodes. The selection unit selects a first response condition in response to a data write request on the basis of the write time of each of the plurality of nodes such that the response time for the data write request becomes shorter than a requirement value of the write time and the number of nodes in which writing has been completed increases. The selection unit selects a second response condition in response to a data read request on the basis of the first response condition and the read time of each of the plurality of nodes such that the response time for the data read request becomes shorter than a requirement value of the read time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2019Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: I SYU, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Kotaro MIHARA
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Publication number: 20220321399Abstract: A processing apparatus (1) includes a virtualization control unit (110) configured to virtualize hardware, and a network providing unit (120) configured to provide a network function by using a resource virtualized by the virtualization control unit (110).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Kotaro MIHARA, Toshifumi SANO, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Minoru Sakuma
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Publication number: 20220290917Abstract: A natural gas liquefying apparatus is provided. At least a part of a cooling region, in which a precooling unit and a liquefaction unit are arranged, and at least a part of a compression region, in which first and second compressors compressing refrigerants to be used in the precooling unit and the liquefaction unit are arranged, are arranged to be opposed to each other across a long side of a second refrigerant cooler group arrangement region in which a liquefying refrigerant is cooled. A first refrigerant cooler group arrangement region, in which a precooling refrigerant is cooled, is arranged so that a long side of the first refrigerant cooler group arrangement region is opposed to one side of a rectangular region including the compression region, the one side being different from a side of the rectangular region opposed to a long side of the second refrigerant cooler group arrangement region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2019Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Akito HIRAI, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Hideto HAGIYA, Shinichi TOJO, Junichi NISHIDA, Tomoaki MATSUO, Ayaka UEMURA