Patents by Inventor Shohichi NAITOH

Shohichi NAITOH 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: 11809472
    Abstract: A service providing system includes a terminal apparatus including first circuitry configured to display a topic for which an input of information is received from a user, and an information processing apparatus including second circuitry configured to collect information related to the topic from the terminal apparatus. The second circuitry of the information processing apparatus, based on topic data including a plurality of topics for which collection of information input by the user is not completed, determines, based on a content or a result of a first topic, a second topic included in the topic data as a topic to be presented to the user. The second circuitry of the information processing apparatus transmits a message including the second topic to the terminal apparatus. The first circuitry of the terminal apparatus receives the message from the information processing apparatus. The first circuitry of the terminal apparatus displays the message on a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayumi Matsubara, Shintaro Kawamura, Atsuko Shimada, Shohichi Naitoh, Yuriko Yamaya, Shinya Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20230281072
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Kawamura, Shohichi Naitoh, Shinya Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20220309085
    Abstract: A service providing system includes a terminal apparatus including first circuitry configured to display a topic for which an input of information is received from a user, and an information processing apparatus including second circuitry configured to collect information related to the topic from the terminal apparatus. The second circuitry of the information processing apparatus, based on topic data including a plurality of topics for which collection of information input by the user is not completed, determines, based on a content or a result of a first topic, a second topic included in the topic data as a topic to be presented to the user. The second circuitry of the information processing apparatus transmits a message including the second topic to the terminal apparatus. The first circuitry of the terminal apparatus receives the message from the information processing apparatus. The first circuitry of the terminal apparatus displays the message on a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayumi Matsubara, Shintaro Kawamura, Atsuko Shimada, Shohichi Naitoh, Yuriko Yamaya, Shinya Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20220237385
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry receives a question input and transmitted by an input apparatus. The circuitry obtains answer source information for creating an answer to the received question, the answer source information associating natural language information given in advance with non-language information by deep learning, the non-language information including configuration information. The circuitry transmits, to the input apparatus, answer content information to the question or additional content request information requesting an input of additional content to the question, the answer content information and the additional content request information being created based on the answer source information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shintaro KAWAMURA, Shinya IGUCHI, Atsuko SHIMADA, Shohichi NAITOH, Mayumi MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 10055177
    Abstract: An information processing system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to analyze a print job taken out of a printer queue storing the print job for ordering an execution of printing; transmit the print job to an output device when an analysis of the print job indicates that the print job is a re-input job that is input to the printer queue again after being taken out of the printer queue; execute a predetermined processing when the analysis indicates that the print job is not the re-input job; embed re-input information indicating that the print job is the re-input job into the print job after the predetermined processing is executed; and return the print job having been edited to the printer queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Shohichi Naitoh
  • Patent number: 9864939
    Abstract: A service provider system obtains, from a request for registering a job to process electronic data, first user information regarding a first user who sends the request, location information indicating a data storage area at which the electronic data to be processed is stored, and second user information regarding a second user, and allows the second user to execute the job being registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Shohichi Naitoh
  • Publication number: 20170269881
    Abstract: An information processing system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to analyze a print job taken out of a printer queue storing the print job for ordering an execution of printing; transmit the print job to an output device when an analysis of the print job indicates that the print job is a re-input job that is input to the printer queue again after being taken out of the printer queue; execute a predetermined processing when the analysis indicates that the print job is not the re-input job; embed re-input information indicating that the print job is the re-input job into the print job after the predetermined processing is executed; and return the print job having been edited to the printer queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shohichi NAITOH
  • Patent number: 9430637
    Abstract: A service providing system includes a unit that stores management information associating user identification, service identification information, and device identification information; a unit that receives authentication information from a service using apparatus; a unit that performs an authentication process on the authentication information; a unit that identifies a service based on the authentication information and the management information when the authentication information is authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a service use request. The execution unit includes a unit that determines rule information to be applied to a user using rule information to be applied to the service according to use history information, a unit that applies the rule information to be applied to the user to the process associated with the service use request; and a unit that stores a record of the applied rule information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohta Suzuki, Naritake Kondoh, Shohichi Naitoh, Sachiko Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9189187
    Abstract: A service providing system includes an information processing device and provides a service to a service usage device connected via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shohichi Naitoh, Naritake Kondoh, Shohta Suzuki, Sachiko Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9164710
    Abstract: A service providing system that provides a service to a service using apparatus includes a management information storage unit that stores management information associating service identification information of the service, user identification information of a user using the service, and device identification information of the service using apparatus; an authentication unit that authenticates user authentication information for user authentication and/or device authentication information for device authentication acquired from the service using apparatus; a service identification unit that identifies the service associated with the authentication information based on the management information and the authentication information that has been authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a use request for the identified service acquired from the service using apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naritake Kondoh, Shohta Suzuki, Shohichi Naitoh, Sachiko Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20150036167
    Abstract: A service providing system includes an information processing device and provides a service to a service usage device connected via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shohichi NAITOH, Naritake KONDOH, Shohta SUZUKI, Sachiko TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150029535
    Abstract: A service providing system that provides a service to a service using apparatus includes a management information storage unit that stores management information associating service identification information of the service, user identification information of a user using the service, and device identification information of the service using apparatus; an authentication unit that authenticates user authentication information for user authentication and/or device authentication information for device authentication acquired from the service using apparatus; a service identification unit that identifies the service associated with the authentication information based on the management information and the authentication information that has been authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a use request for the identified service acquired from the service using apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naritake KONDOH, Shohta SUZUKI, Shohichi NAITOH, Sachiko TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150029536
    Abstract: A service providing system includes a unit that stores management information associating user identification, service identification information, and device identification information; a unit that receives authentication information from a service using apparatus; a unit that performs an authentication process on the authentication information; a unit that identifies a service based on the authentication information and the management information when the authentication information is authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a service use request. The execution unit includes a unit that determines rule information to be applied to a user using rule information to be applied to the service according to use history information, a unit that applies the rule information to be applied to the user to the process associated with the service use request; and a unit that stores a record of the applied rule information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shohta SUZUKI, Naritake KONDOH, Shohichi NAITOH, Sachiko TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20130242335
    Abstract: A service provider system obtains, from a request for registering a job to process electronic data, first user information regarding a first user who sends the request, location information indicating a data storage area at which the electronic data to be processed is stored, and second user information regarding a second user, and allows the second user to execute the job being registered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventor: Shohichi NAITOH