Patents by Inventor Tadashi OKAMINE

Tadashi OKAMINE 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: 11812326
    Abstract: A check-in determination apparatus 1 configured to determine check-in indicating that a terminal 2 has entered a geofence which is a prescribed geographic area includes: a related geofence information storage unit 12 configured to store related geofence information in which a related geofence which is another geofence is correlated with each geofence on the basis of a distance to the geofence; a check-in determination unit 14 configured to determine check-in of the terminal 2 sequentially with respect to each of the geofences. When it is determined that the terminal 2 has checked into one geofence, the check-in determination unit 14 excludes the related geofence correlated with the one geofence in the related geofence information stored by the related geofence information storage unit 12 from determination targets in subsequent determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tadashi Okamine, Kazuya Sasaki, Shoichi Horiguchi, Masatoshi Kimoto
  • Patent number: 11570746
    Abstract: A check-in determination apparatus 1 includes: a determination history information storage unit 13 configured to store determination history information for each terminal 2, in which position identifying information capable of identifying a position of the terminal 2 when check-in of the terminal 2 with respect to the geofence was determined is correlated with geofence identifying information capable of identifying the geofence; a related geofence information storage unit 12 configured to store related geofence information that correlates another geofence with each geofence; a position identifying information acquisition unit 14 configured to acquire position identifying information of the terminal 2; and a check-in determination unit 15 configured to determine check-in of the terminal 2 with respect to the geofence determined on the basis of the acquired position identifying information of the terminal 2, the stored determination history information, and the stored related geofence information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tadashi Okamine, Kazuya Sasaki, Shoichi Horiguchi, Masatoshi Kimoto
  • Publication number: 20220030378
    Abstract: A check-in determination apparatus 1 configured to determine check-in indicating that a terminal 2 has entered a geofence which is a prescribed geographic area includes: a related geofence information storage unit 12 configured to store related geofence information in which a related geofence which is another geofence is correlated with each geofence on the basis of a distance to the geofence; a check-in determination unit 14 configured to determine check-in of the terminal 2 sequentially with respect to each of the geofences. When it is determined that the terminal 2 has checked into one geofence, the check-in determination unit 14 excludes the related geofence correlated with the one geofence in the related geofence information stored by the related geofence information storage unit 12 from determination targets in subsequent determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tadashi OKAMINE, Kazuya SASAKI, Shoichi HORIGUCHI, Masatoshi KIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220022157
    Abstract: A check-in determination apparatus 1 includes: a determination history information storage unit 13 configured to store determination history information for each terminal 2, in which position identifying information capable of identifying a position of the terminal 2 when check-in of the terminal 2 with respect to the geofence was determined is correlated with geofence identifying information capable of identifying the geofence; a related geofence information storage unit 12 configured to store related geofence information that correlates another geofence with each geofence; a position identifying information acquisition unit 14 configured to acquire position identifying information of the terminal 2; and a check-in determination unit 15 configured to determine check-in of the terminal 2 with respect to the geofence determined on the basis of the acquired position identifying information of the terminal 2, the stored determination history information, and the stored related geofence information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tadashi OKAMINE, Kazuya SASAKI, Shoichi HORIGUCHI, Masatoshi KIMOTO