Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki AKASHI

Nobuyuki AKASHI 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: 10318996
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which bid targets are a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content and a right to replace the advertisement displayed in the advertising space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takata, Nobuyuki Akashi, Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Nari Woo, Akihiro Tanabe, Shinichiro Sega, Rin Katou
  • Patent number: 9916600
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and a providing unit. The plan receiving unit gradually receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content a plurality of times. The providing unit additionally presents the plan information which is gradually received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space set to the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takata, Nobuyuki Akashi, Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Nari Woo, Akihiro Tanabe, Shinichiro Sega, Rin Katou
  • Publication number: 20150142512
    Abstract: A user information providing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a business operator information database, an information acquiring unit, a user information extracting unit, and a user information output unit. The business operator information database stores user information of a business operator. The information acquiring unit acquires information on an identification target provided in a place corresponding to the business operator from a user terminal. The user information extracting unit extracts user information of the business operator corresponding to the place where the identification target is provided from the business operator information database based on the information on the identification target acquired by the information acquiring unit. The user information output unit outputs the user information extracted by the user information extracting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Takayuki TSUCHIYA, Hiroshi OTA, Nobuyuki AKASHI
  • Publication number: 20150088658
    Abstract: An advertisement delivery apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first advertising information output unit and a second advertising information output unit. The first advertising information output unit outputs first advertising information corresponding to user information on a company to the wireless terminal when the wireless terminal enters a site corresponding to the company. The second advertising information output unit outputs, to the wireless terminal, second advertising information corresponding to behavior of a user having the wireless terminal after the output of the first advertising information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shouichi IIDUKA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Hiroshi OTA
  • Publication number: 20150081455
    Abstract: A service providing apparatus includes a calculating unit, a plan receiving unit, and a service providing unit. The calculating unit calculates an evaluation value for a content creator that creates content. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of the content planned by the content creator. The service providing unit presents the evaluation value calculated by the calculating unit and the plan information received by the plan receiving unit, and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement on the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA
  • Publication number: 20150081456
    Abstract: A service providing apparatus has a plan receiving unit and a service providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives advertising space information relating to an advertising space set to content by a content creator who creates the content and a targeting condition set to the advertising space by the content creator. The service providing unit provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in the advertising space for each targeting condition on the basis of the advertising space information received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA
  • Publication number: 20150081454
    Abstract: A service providing apparatus includes a request receiving unit and a service providing unit. The request receiving unit receives, from an advertiser having the right to display an advertisement on content, a resale request to resell a right to be resold to other advertisers. When the resale request is received by the request receiving unit, the service providing unit provides a resale service for reselling the right to be resold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA
  • Publication number: 20150081422
    Abstract: A service providing apparatus includes a plan receiving unit, a calculating unit, and a service providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content planned by a content creator. The calculating unit calculates the number of predicted views that is a predicted value of the number of times at which the content is viewed by a user. The service providing unit presents the number of predicted views calculated by the calculating unit and the plan information received by the plan receiving unit, and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement on the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA
  • Publication number: 20140379493
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which bid targets are a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content and a right to replace the advertisement displayed in the advertising space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Yahoo Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA, Rin KATOU
  • Publication number: 20140379491
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content by the content creator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA, Rin KATOU
  • Publication number: 20140379492
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and a providing unit. The plan receiving unit gradually receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content a plurality of times. The providing unit additionally presents the plan information which is gradually received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space set to the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA, Rin KATOU
  • Publication number: 20140379494
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a communication unit and an auction providing unit. The communication unit communicates with a communication network. The auction providing unit presents a portion of plan information indicating a plan of content which is created by a content creator, presents the other plan information when a request is received from an advertiser who has browsed the portion of the plan information, and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space set to the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA, Rin KATOU
  • Publication number: 20140365306
    Abstract: A user information providing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a database, an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, and a output unit. The database stores pieces of user information of a business operator. The acquiring unit acquires, as entry information, information of a place corresponding to the business operator and information of a wireless terminal which has entered the place. The extracting unit extracts a piece of user information of the business operator corresponding to the place which the wireless terminal has entered from the database, based on the entry information acquired. The output unit outputs the extracted piece of user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OTA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA