Patents by Inventor Ryota Hirano

Ryota Hirano 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).

  • Document revision support program and computer readable medium on which the support program is recorded and document revision support device
    Patent number: 7149963
    Abstract: A system for constructing, in a storage device of a computer, data expressing a document to be revised as an XML document, in which a volume, a chapter, a clause, an item, a section, a sub-section, a paragraph and the like of the document to be revised are expressed as a tree structure is provided. An element corresponding to a branch node of tree structured data is assigned a set of a unique revision ID and an attribute representing a type of the revisions written in a list structure every time a revision is made and the element prior to the revision is saved so that a revision operation of the element is performed using the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: K-Plex Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota Hirano, Koji Kusumoto, Kazushige Oikawa
  • Document revision support program and computer readable medium on which the support program is recorded and document revision support device
    Publication number: 20050251738
    Abstract: To satisfy the needs for stringent control of a record of revisions made to, for example, laws, ordinances, legal documents, patent specifications, industrial codes, documents regarding financial products, specifications, instruction and other manuals, office regulations, bylaws and the like and for strict control of revision histories of editing in the field of publishing and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Ryota Hirano, Koji Kusumoto, Kazushige Oikawa