Patents by Inventor Sekin Ou

Sekin Ou 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: 11792183
    Abstract: An authentication system, a user information extraction apparatus, and a user information migration method. The authentication system acquires user information for authenticating a user who uses a device and transmits the acquired user information to the information processing system and the information processing system stores in one or more memory common user information for authenticating a common user who uses the device and another device different from the device, receives the user information from the user information extraction apparatus, and adds the received user information to the common user information stored in the one or more memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sogawa, Sekin Ou
  • Publication number: 20230297637
    Abstract: A data management apparatus includes circuitry to transmit access information for accessing data stored in a memory to an information processing apparatus via a network, receive, from an information processing terminal via the network, an acquisition request to acquire the data, the acquisition request being transmitted in response to a user operation to the access information on the information processing terminal connected to the information processing apparatus via the network, and transmit screen information for displaying the data generated based on the access information included in the acquisition request to the information processing terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sekin Ou
  • Patent number: 11729340
    Abstract: An information processing server includes circuitry; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the circuitry to execute disabling use of a function provided by firmware, in response to acquiring a report indicating that the firmware is installed in an information processing apparatus; and enabling use of the function, in response to acquiring a report indicating that an application configured to use the function is installed in the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sekin Ou
  • Publication number: 20220239801
    Abstract: An information processing server includes circuitry; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the circuitry to execute disabling use of a function provided by firmware, in response to acquiring a report indicating that the firmware is installed in an information processing apparatus; and enabling use of the function, in response to acquiring a report indicating that an application configured to use the function is installed in the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sekin OU
  • Publication number: 20220029977
    Abstract: An authentication system, a user information extraction apparatus, and a user information migration method. The authentication system acquires user information for authenticating a user who uses a device and transmits the acquired user information to the information processing system and the information processing system stores in one or more memory common user information for authenticating a common user who uses the device and another device different from the device, receives the user information from the user information extraction apparatus, and adds the received user information to the common user information stored in the one or more memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sogawa, Sekin Ou