Patents by Inventor Shintaro Sakurai

Shintaro Sakurai 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).

  • Server, information providing method and recording medium for distributing a terminal with information containing menu and link arranged on image
    Patent number: 7664827
    Abstract: A server for distributing information provided by an information provider as an information element group consisting of one or more information elements connected, to a user terminal. The server includes means for creating a hierarchical structure between the information elements via an image, means for receiving an access to an image related to the first information element, means for searching a second information element constituting a hierarchical structure with the first information element via the image, and means for arranging the second information element on the image and distributing it to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Kamata, Shintaro Sakurai