Patents by Inventor Noriko Nakajima
Noriko Nakajima 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: 20240073047Abstract: A management device executes an acquisition process of acquiring configuration management information including at least the first storage region and the second storage region; an extraction process of extracting, from the cost calculation rule table, the cost calculation formula in the second storage region included in the configuration management information acquired in the acquisition process; a first calculation process of calculating a cost estimate value by the cost calculation formula by acquiring, from the performance/capacity history table, a value to be substituted in as a variable of the cost calculation formula; a creation process of creating a cost estimate result including a cost estimate value calculated in the first calculation process, the first storage region, the second storage region, and the type of the usage configuration using the second storage region; and an output process of outputting the cost estimate result created in the creation process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Jun NAKAJIMA, Noriko NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 11909541Abstract: A management device executes an acquisition process of acquiring configuration management information including at least the first storage region and the second storage region; an extraction process of extracting, from the cost calculation rule table, the cost calculation formula in the second storage region included in the configuration management information acquired in the acquisition process; a first calculation process of calculating a cost estimate value by the cost calculation formula by acquiring, from the performance/capacity history table, a value to be substituted in as a variable of the cost calculation formula; a creation process of creating a cost estimate result including a cost estimate value calculated in the first calculation process, the first storage region, the second storage region, and the type of the usage configuration using the second storage region; and an output process of outputting the cost estimate result created in the creation process.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Nakajima, Noriko Nakajima
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Publication number: 20240045773Abstract: A management apparatus including a storage device configured to store restoration rules which define a plurality of patterns relating to the restoration in a restoration configuration indicating a copy source and a copy destination of the data, and backup configuration information relating to the backup source and the backup destination of the data, the management apparatus executes: specification processing of specifying restoration target data; selection processing of selecting a specific restoration rule from the restoration rules; and generation processing of generating, by referring to the backup configuration information, in a restoration configuration of the restoration target data in which the backup source of the restoration target data specified by the specification processing is the copy destination and the backup destination of the restoration target data is the copy source, a restoration pattern of the restoration target data in accordance with the specific restoration rule selected by the selectType: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Noriko NAKAJIMA, Jun NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 10511489Abstract: The difference in operational management service among a plurality of storage apparatuses is detected by an apparatus that provides at least one operational management service to the storage apparatuses of a plurality of user sites via a communication network. The apparatus classifies the storage apparatuses of the plurality of user sites on the basis of use statuses, and generate at least one group including the plurality of storage apparatuses; and a service difference extraction unit configured to detect, out of the plurality of storage apparatuses that constitute the group, a first storage device that is inferior in terms of a predetermined index and a second storage device that is superior to the first storage device in terms of the predetermined index, and extract a difference between a first operational management service applied to the first storage apparatus and a second operational management service applied to the second storage apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Noriko Nakajima, Jun Nakajima, Nobuhiro Maki
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Patent number: 10457593Abstract: Provided is a glass sheet (1) with a film, including a laminated film (2), which includes a plurality of films laminated together, formed on a glass sheet (3). The laminated film (2) includes: an inorganic material film (4), which contains at least a noble metal, formed on the glass sheet (3); a plated metal film (5) formed on the inorganic material film; and a metal film (6) formed on the plated metal film (5). The laminated film (2) is black when viewed from a glass sheet (3) side.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchida, Masahiro Yoshino, Michinari Sone, Kayoko Fukuda, Noriko Nakajima
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Patent number: 10423549Abstract: Provided is a computer system, comprising a plurality of devices and a plurality of management computers. The devices further comprise one or more objects. The plurality of management computers provides services with the one or more objects being subjects to be managed. An information provision period is set for each of the objects of each of the services. On the basis of an information collection policy relating to collecting information about the objects and the information provision period which is set for each of the objects of each of the services which is running, a primary management computer determines the management computer which handles the collection of the information of each of the objects, and notifies each of the management computer that has been so determined of the objects which said management computer will handle the management for.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Nakajima, Noriko Nakajima, Hironori Emaru
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Publication number: 20180246823Abstract: Provided is a computer system, comprising a plurality of devices and a plurality of management computers. The devices further comprise one or more objects. The plurality of management computers provides services with the one or more objects being subjects to be managed. An information provision period is set for each of the objects of each of the services. On the basis of an information collection policy relating to collecting information about the objects and the information provision period which is set for each of the objects of each of the services which is running, a primary management computer determines the management computer which handles the collection of the information of each of the objects, and notifies each of the management computer that has been so determined of the objects which said management computer will handle the management for.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2015Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Jun NAKAJIMA, Noriko NAKAJIMA, Hironori EMARU
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Publication number: 20180230043Abstract: Provided is a glass sheet (1) with a film, including a laminated film (2), which includes a plurality of films laminated together, formed on a glass sheet (3). The laminated film (2) includes: an inorganic material film (4), which contains at least a noble metal, formed on the glass sheet (3); a plated metal film (5) formed on the inorganic material film; and a metal film (6) formed on the plated metal film (5). The laminated film (2) is black when viewed from a glass sheet (3) side.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki UCHIDA, Masahiro YOSHINO, Michinari SONE, Kayoko FUKUDA, Noriko NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20180034708Abstract: The difference in operational management service among a plurality of storage apparatuses is detected by an apparatus that provides at least one operational management service to the storage apparatuses of a plurality of user sites via a communication network. The apparatus classifies the storage apparatuses of the plurality of user sites on the basis of use statuses, and generate at least one group including the plurality of storage apparatuses; and a service difference extraction unit configured to detect, out of the plurality of storage apparatuses that constitute the group, a first storage device that is inferior in terms of a predetermined index and a second storage device that is superior to the first storage device in terms of the predetermined index, and extract a difference between a first operational management service applied to the first storage apparatus and a second operational management service applied to the second storage apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Noriko NAKAJIMA, Jun NAKAJIMA, Nobuhiro MAKI
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Publication number: 20170348261Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical dermatological preparation for external use comprising an active drug, polyoxyethylene arachyl ether, stearyl alcohol, a liquid oily ingredient, a moisturizing ingredient and water, and provides a medical dermatological preparation for external use, which reduces occurrence or degree of a side effect such as skin irritation in the medical dermatological preparation for external use. The present invention provides particularly a medical dermatological preparation for external use, which comprises adapalene and reduces occurrence and degree of a side effect such as skin irritation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Noriko NAKAJIMA, Takehumi OFUSA
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Patent number: 9444704Abstract: In a cloud environment that provides both virtual environment and non-virtual environment, in order to address a problem in that monitoring items that vary depending on usage cases must be managed, the present invention proposes a management method in which whether each server brings about a virtual environment or a non-virtual environment is managed by performing registration processing in cooperation with image management and a service resource registration task. In addition, user manager monitoring profile item management information for virtual/no-virtual environment is prepared, and with reference to this information, calculation methods, which specify monitoring items to be monitored out of monitoring items and infra monitoring items for each environment, are managed. With the use of these calculation methods, a user manager and an infrastructure manager may perform optimal monitorings.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Noriko Nakajima, Akihisa Nagami, Toshio Otani, Atsumi Terayama
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Publication number: 20160156568Abstract: A computer system comprising computers, wherein the computers include a first computer and second computers for providing resources to a business system. The business system includes a first VM capable of changing its performance by executing scale-out, and a second VMs capable of changing their performance by executing scale-up. The resource optimizing module included in the first computer is configured to: execute first processing for applying resource changing methods that are light in processing load to the active second VM and the standby second VM in a case of detecting an incident of an increase in load on the active second VM; and execute second processing for applying resource changing methods that are heavy in processing load to the active second VM and the standby second VM in a case of increasing the load on the active second VM.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Yuki NAGANUMA, Noriko NAKAJIMA, Soichi TAKASHIGE, Tomohiro MORIMURA
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Publication number: 20160072687Abstract: In a cloud environment that provides both virtual environment and non-virtual environment, in order to address a problem in that monitoring items that vary depending on usage cases must be managed, the present invention proposes a management method in which whether each server brings about a virtual environment or a non-virtual environment is managed by performing registration processing in cooperation with image management and a service resource registration task. In addition, user manager monitoring profile item management information for virtual/no-virtual environment is prepared, and with reference to this information, calculation methods, which specify monitoring items to be monitored out of monitoring items and infra monitoring items for each environment, are managed. With the use of these calculation methods, a user manager and an infrastructure manager may perform optimal monitorings.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Noriko NAKAJIMA, Akihisa NAGAMI, Toshio OTANI, Atsumi TERAYAMA
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Publication number: 20150236977Abstract: In the case of performance deterioration or performance excess with respect to current resource assignment, both processing capacity and resource use efficiency are optimized by an appropriate configuration change. For that purpose, the present invention proposes an appropriate migration measure to a request for performance improvement. Whether or not the server in which performance deterioration or excess occurs and another server influence each other in performance is identified, and it is determined whether a change of a resource amount in the same device is appropriate or migration to another device is appropriate. Regarding the migration measure, after feasibility is checked, items for improvement are presented together with required time and cost taken for the migration, and merits and demerits of the configuration change work are quantitatively indicated (see FIG. 4).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2012Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsumi Terayama, Akihisa Nagami, Noriko Nakajima, Toshio Otani
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Patent number: 8954706Abstract: A storage apparatus of an embodiment of the invention including one or more storage drives for providing real storage resources and a controller for controlling the one or more storage drives and accesses from a host computer. The controller initializes real storage resources and manages the initialized real storage resources. The controller receives an instruction for allocating an initialized real storage resource to a first virtual storage resource accessed by the host computer. In response to the instruction, the controller allocates a first initialized real storage resource which has been initialized in advance prior to the instruction to the first virtual storage resource.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Noriko Nakajima, Akihisa Nagami, Toru Tanaka
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Patent number: 8949559Abstract: It is an object to use a storage region in an efficient manner and maintain a performance of a storage system. A volume group GR11 includes reference volumes 1411, 1413, and 1415 and source volumes 1412, 1414, 1416, and 1417 that derive from the reference volumes. Each of the volumes stores only the difference data from a volume that is a parent thereof. A volume that is a cause of a problem is moved or copied from a pool of the moment 1410 to other pool 1420. A configuration of a volume group is modified.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toru Tanaka, Noriko Nakajima, Takashi Amano, Yasunori Kaneda
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Patent number: 8938528Abstract: A computer system is provided that is capable of reducing an administrator's operational errors by connecting a new server to a SAN and automating a SAN boot setting, and capable of lightening the administrator's task of checking for a wrong connection by detecting a wrong connection made when a new server is connected to an SNW connection device. Once a new server connected to a PnP SAN starts with a boot program obtained from a boot management server, the new server transmits configuration information on the new server to a resource management server. In response to a request from the resource management server, a storage device refers to PnP SAN information to transmit SAN information on a storage network connection device to which the new server is connected. The resource management server determines to add the new server to a resource group on the basis of the SAN information and requirement information.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Amano, Akihisa Nagami, Yasunori Kaneda, Noriko Nakajima
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Patent number: 8839242Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique that can comprehensively manage plural kinds of network addresses allocated to virtual computers. In various embodiments, a MAC address, an IP address, and virtual communication interface identification information are allocated anew to a virtual computer to be created anew and the MAC address, the IP address, and the virtual communication interface identification information are set to be unable to be allocated anew.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Noriko Nakajima, Yasunori Kaneda, Akihisa Nagami, Toru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20140101279Abstract: A computer system comprising a storage device including a copy pair of a copied volume and a host computer is provided. The management computer detects a change in the state obtained by monitoring the state of the copy pair, and according to the result of detection, changes the configuration of a cluster constituted by a virtual machine using data stored in the volume, and a host computer using the volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Nagami, Atsumi Terayama, Noriko Nakajima, Toshio Otani
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Publication number: 20130254500Abstract: A storage apparatus of an embodiment of the invention including one or more storage drives for providing real storage resources and a controller for controlling the one or more storage drives and accesses from a host computer. The controller initializes real storage resources and manages the initialized real storage resources. The controller receives an instruction for allocating an initialized real storage resource to a first virtual storage resource accessed by the host computer. In response to the instruction, the controller allocates a first initialized real storage resource which has been initialized in advance prior to the instruction to the first virtual storage resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Noriko Nakajima, Akihisa Nagami, Toru Tanaka