Patents by Inventor Shohei NISHIKAWA

Shohei NISHIKAWA 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).

  • Publication number: 20240005264
    Abstract: A delivery support device includes a probability calculation unit that calculates probabilities that a delivery vehicle arrives at a plurality of respective target positions on the basis of positional relationships between a departure position of the delivery vehicle and the plurality of respective target positions and an amount of fuel before the delivery vehicle departs, and an expected value calculation unit that calculates an expected value of a number of target positions where the delivery vehicle arrives on the basis of probabilities for the plurality of respective target positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Manami OGAWA, Shunsuke KANAI, Kazuaki AKASHI, Shohei NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11843519
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage device configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a logical layer, information objects related to a physical layer in a network configuration, and information objects related to a facility layer which are objects in which the information objects related to the physical layer are housed; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information object related to an occurrence path of a failure in the logical layer of the network configuration, from the storage device; and a search unit configured to search for, among the information objects related to the facility layer stored in the storage device, an information object related to the facility layer and the physical layer associated with the information object related to the occurrence path of the failure acquired from the acquisition unit, as a candidate for a facility that causes the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko Fukami, Masataka Sato, Shohei Nishikawa, Kenji Murase, Kenichi Tayama
  • Publication number: 20230359949
    Abstract: A recovery assistance device according to an embodiment includes an analysis unit and a learning unit. The analysis unit generates a first procedure plan related to recovery work of a first failure by solving an optimization problem on the basis of first information related to the first failure. The learning unit acquires feedback information related to work procedure adopted for the recovery work of the first failure and generates a learning result reflecting the feedback information with respect to the first procedure plan. In a case where a second failure occurs, the analysis unit further generates a second procedure plan related to recovery work of the second failure using the learning result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei NISHIKAWA, Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Chao WU, Manami OGAWA, Kazuaki AKASHI, Naomi MURATA
  • Patent number: 11765019
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage device configured to store information indicating connection relationships between a plurality of communication devices and communication paths in a network configuration and rank information indicating ranks of the plurality of communication devices in the network configuration and a determination unit configured to, when a fault has occurred in a communication device, determine that a communication device influenced by the fault is within a fault influence range based on the information stored in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Nishikawa, Masataka Sato, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami, Kenichi Tayama
  • Patent number: 11757716
    Abstract: There is provided a network management device (1) including a capacity management unit (10) for managing the capacity in a network to be managed and a storage unit (20) for storing management information. The storage unit stores specification information of entities included in the network, and entity information including information indicative of relationships between the entities. The capacity management unit 10 includes a capacity request acquisition section (11) which receives a generation request of a first entity; reads the specification information about the first entity from the storage unit, and determines whether or not the first entity needs to consume a resource; when it is determined that the first entity needs to consume a resource, identifies a second entity capable of providing capacity consumed by the first entity, based on the entity information stored in the storage unit; and outputs information about the identification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Sato, Kazuaki Akashi, Shingo Horiuchi, Kenichi Tayama, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami, Shohei Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20230274216
    Abstract: A delivery plan creation device according to an aspect of the invention creates a delivery plan including an order of delivery of fuel to each of destinations using a delivery vehicle and an amount of fuel to be supplied. The delivery plan creation device includes a database, a storage unit, and a processor. The database holds environment information including destination information related to the destination and delivery vehicle information related to the delivery vehicle. The storage unit stores a trained model created by training a neural network having at least an input layer and an output layer in advance based on different environment information. The processor includes an acquisition unit and a creation unit. The acquisition unit accesses the database to acquire the environment information and create an input condition that is a premise of the delivery plan from the environment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki AKASHI, Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Chao WU, Shohei NISHIKAWA, Naomi MURATA, Manami OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230099411
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage device configured to store information indicating connection relationships between a plurality of communication devices and communication paths in a network configuration and rank information indicating ranks of the plurality of communication devices in the network configuration and a determination unit configured to, when a fault has occurred in a communication device, determine that a communication device influenced by the fault is within a fault influence range based on the information stored in the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei NISHIKAWA, Masataka SATO, Kenji MURASE, Kimihiko FUKAMI, Kenichi TAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230025536
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage device configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a logical layer, information objects related to a physical layer in a network configuration, and information objects related to a facility layer which are objects in which the information objects related to the physical layer are housed; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information object related to an occurrence path of a failure in the logical layer of the network configuration, from the storage device; and a search unit configured to search for, among the information objects related to the facility layer stored in the storage device, an information object related to the facility layer and the physical layer associated with the information object related to the occurrence path of the failure acquired from the acquisition unit, as a candidate for a facility that causes the failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko FUKAMI, Masataka SATO, Shohei NISHIKAWA, Kenji MURASE, Kenichi TAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220345364
    Abstract: There is provided a network management device (1) including a capacity management unit (10) for managing the capacity in a network to be managed and a storage unit (20) for storing management information. The storage unit stores specification information of entities included in the network, and entity information including information indicative of relationships between the entities. The capacity management unit 10 includes a capacity request acquisition section (11) which receives a generation request of a first entity; reads the specification information about the first entity from the storage unit, and determines whether or not the first entity needs to consume a resource; when it is determined that the first entity needs to consume a resource, identifies a second entity capable of providing capacity consumed by the first entity, based on the entity information stored in the storage unit; and outputs information about the identification result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka SATO, Kazuaki AKASHI, Shingo HORIUCHI, Kenichi TAYAMA, Kenji MURASE, Kimihiko FUKAMI, Shohei NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220345372
    Abstract: A network management device according to an embodiment includes: a first storage unit that stores entities representing substances of information objects in a network; a second storage unit that stores information on a start point and an end point of the network; a third storage unit that stores information on a rule of a path indicating types of and a connection order of a plurality of communication devices provided between the start point and the end point of the network; path calculation processing means for obtaining the information on the start point and the end point of the network from the second storage unit, and calculating, based on the entities stored in the first storage unit, a plurality of physical-layer paths between the start point and the end point of the network and obtaining entities between the start point and the end point in each of the plurality of physical-layer paths from the first storage unit; and path assessment processing means for assessing a path indicated by the obtained entiti
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko FUKAMI, Masataka SATO, Kenichi TAYAMA, Kenji MURASE, Shohei NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220247631
    Abstract: A network management device according to an aspect includes a processing circuitry configured to perform acquiring a network configuration of a logical layer concerning a communication network having a redundant configuration in a communication section between a first network device and a second network device, the network configuration being a network configuration of a logical layer including a plurality of logical entities including a first logical entity corresponding to a first virtual port set in the first network device and a second logical entity corresponding to a second virtual port set in the second network device and, in response to occurrence of a failure of the communication network, retrieving a communicable path leading from the first logical entity to the second logical entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Shohei Nishikawa, Masataka Sato, Kenichi Tayama, Shingo Horiuchi, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami
  • Publication number: 20220200864
    Abstract: A network management device according to an embodiment includes: a path selection processing unit configured to perform path selection processing of selecting a path of a physical layer between a start point and an end point of a network based on a first entity stored in a first storage device configured to store the first entity, the first entity representing an entity of an information object of the network; and an entity generation processing unit configured to perform entity generation processing of generating a second entity of a logical layer corresponding to the path of the physical layer selected by the path selection processing unit based on a specification of the information object stored in a second storage device configured to store the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka SATO, Kazuaki AKASHI, Shingo HORIUCHI, Kenichi TAYAMA, Kenji MURASE, Kimihiko FUKAMI, Shohei NISHIKAWA