Patents by Inventor Takeru Inoue

Takeru Inoue 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: 12316395
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system and a terminal capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a terminal according to the present invention learn an input and output relationship from terminal information such as surrounding environment information of the terminal that can be acquired by a camera, a sensor, or the like, and position information of the terminal and current communication quality to generate a learning model, and predict future communication quality using the learning model, the surrounding environment information and the terminal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kohei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12225331
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to propose a technique to enumerate intermediate configurations at high speeds. A configuration enumeration device 10 according to the present disclosure enumerates a network configuration in an input layer 21, an intermediate layer 22, and an output layer 23 that minimizes the number of mechanical patch panels provided in mechanical patch panels, by using ?-quasi-nonblocking configurations, where ? being 0 indicates a rearrangeably nonblocking configuration and ? being 1 indicates a strictly nonblocking configuration, for 0???1, when a minimum value C of wiring capacity of mechanical patch panels having the input layer 21, the intermediate layer 22, and the output layer 23 is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Mano, Takeru Inoue
  • Patent number: 12170547
    Abstract: Quality of communication between a terminal and an external communication device in response to control of the terminal is predicted by acquiring surrounding environment information or/and terminal information of the terminal, and the terminal is controlled to improve the communication quality, avoid fatal communication quality degradation, or satisfy a control condition of the terminal for the communication quality, thereby realizing control that satisfies a predefined required condition related to communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kohei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12143273
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present disclosure to reduce computational complexity for obtaining a network topology configuration capable of efficiently accommodating a plurality of traffic demands assumed between nodes present in a network. A device of the present disclosure includes: a computation traffic generation unit that creates a traffic demand matrix whose elements are values individually obtained by demands between nodes present in a target network area from a plurality of traffic demand matrices created based on predicted traffic demands between the nodes; and a network topology generation unit that generates a network topology based on the traffic demand matrix generated by the computation traffic generation unit and port information of the nodes in the network area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Anazawa, Toru Mano, Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kohei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12133114
    Abstract: An event regarding control of a terminal that significantly affects communication quality with which communication between the terminal and an external communication device is performed is predicted by acquiring surrounding information of the terminal using a surrounding environment information collection unit, and a packet loss caused in communication, communication disconnection, and communication quality that does not meet required performance are prevented using communication control to change setting related to communication, such as selection/addition/deletion of a communication counterpart, selection/change of a communication scheme, a change in modulation scheme, coding rate, and number of spatial multiplexings of communication, and a change in setting of an automatic gain controller of a receiver for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kohei Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20240338269
    Abstract: A reliability calculation method according to one embodiment, executed by a computer, includes an input procedure designed to input a connected undirected graph G=(V, E), an operation probability pi of a link ei?E that constitutes the undirected graph G, and a predetermined set T?V of k-1 source nodes; a search procedure designed to generate a directed acyclic graph for calculating a reliability RG,p (T?{v}) representing the probability that each target node v?V\T is connected to each of the k-1 source nodes, based on the undirected graph G, the operation probability of operation pi, and the set T; and a probability calculation procedure designed to calculate the reliability RG,p (T?{v}) for each target node v based on the directed acyclic graph and a correspondence between each vertex of the directed acyclic graph and its adjacent vertex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Kengo NAKAMURA, Takeru INOUE, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA
  • Patent number: 12028788
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system and a base station capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a base station according to the invention learn an input and output relationship from surrounding environment information of the base station that can be acquired by a camera, a sensor, or the like, terminal information such as position information of a terminal and current communication quality to generate a learning model, and predict future communication quality using the learning model, the surrounding environment information, and the terminal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kohei Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20240196118
    Abstract: An output port switching unit that connects to a first optical transmission path, a second optical transmission path, and the connection information processor, and sets a destination of the first optical transmission path as the connection information processor in an initial state. A controller that transmits transmission mode information indicating a transmission mode identified based on connection information of the first optical transmission path acquired from an optical signal transmitted by an optical transceiver provided in an optical communicator that the connection information processor connects to the first optical transmission path, connection request data included in the optical signal and transmitted by the optical transceiver, and transmission path information of the second optical transmission path to the optical transceiver through the first optical transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei KITAMURA, Hideki NISHIZAWA, Tetsuro INUI, Takafumi TANAKA, Takeru INOUE
  • Patent number: 11902154
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform automatic restoration from network failures even when complicated operations for executing a plurality of commands are required. The present disclosure relates to a network setting device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of network devices and performs a setting of the plurality of network devices. The network setting device performs a first step for determining whether a network including the plurality of network devices satisfies a predetermined operational policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Toru Mano, Kazuya Anazawa, Kohei Mizuno, Kengo Nakamura, Masaaki Nishino, Norihito Yasuda, Masakazu Ishihata
  • Publication number: 20240048443
    Abstract: A connection optimization device that optimizes connections between a plurality of FXC switches for switching connections of optical fibers includes a optimization unit for receiving, as inputs, a number k of FXC switches, a number n of sending/receiving ports, and a connection probability matrix C of the sending/receiving ports and swapping rows and columns of the connection probability matrix C so as to maximize an expected value D in which a connection probability using a short path connecting between the sending/receiving ports connected in the same FXC switch becomes the largest, and a swapping port information output unit for outputting difference information between the connection probability matrix C and the optimization matrix C* in which the rows and the columns are swapped by the optimization unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Hideki NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230412950
    Abstract: An orchestrator includes: a communication request reception unit that receives a communication requirement from a first computer; an optical transport NW design unit that determines an optical path to be used for communication based on the communication requirement and a state of an optical transport path of an optical transport network and calculates setting information to be set to an optical network device of each of a plurality of nodes to construct the optical path; a result output/transmission unit that transmits the setting information to the optical network device to each of the plurality of nodes; and an ACK transmission unit that transmits the setting completion notification to the first computer after receiving a setting completion response of the setting information from the plurality of nodes .
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuya ANAZAWA, Toru MANO, Takeru INOUE, Hideki NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11722397
    Abstract: Provided are a reliability estimation system and a reliability estimation method capable of reducing a calculation amount of a reliability of a plurality of networks between terminals in communication between the terminals over the plurality of networks. The reliability estimation system according to the present invention calculates, for each network, a contraction reliability Rx, a contraction reliability Rx? when nodes are contracted, and a contraction reliability RB? between the networks including the terminals, and a true value of the reliability between the terminals over the plurality of networks is between a product P1 (=RB? Rx) and a product P2 (=RB? Rx?). Instead of calculating the true value of the reliability, only an upper limit and a lower limit are calculated, and thus, it is possible to significantly low additional remark the calculation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Taniguchi, Takeru Inoue, Kohei Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20230138720
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to search for a command sequence, while preventing overlooking as much as possible, in a shorter period of time than that of searching using only an actual system is used. The present disclosure provides an execution procedure searching device that searches for a command sequence to be set for a plurality of devices constituting a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Kohei MIZUNO, Kengo NAKAMURA, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA, Masakazu ISHIHATA
  • Publication number: 20230132633
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform automatic restoration from network failures even when complicated operations for executing a plurality of commands are required. The present disclosure relates to a network setting device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of network devices and performs a setting of the plurality of network devices. The network setting device performs a first step for determining whether a network including the plurality of network devices satisfies a predetermined operational policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Kohei MIZUNO, Kengo NAKAMURA, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA, Masakazu ISHIHATA
  • Publication number: 20230097606
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a communication system and a terminal capable of predicting future communication quality to respond to change in communication quality due to environmental fluctuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kahoko TAKAHASHI, Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20230013105
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present disclosure to reduce computational complexity for obtaining a network topology configuration capable of efficiently accommodating a plurality of traffic demands assumed between nodes present in a network. A device of the present disclosure includes: a computation traffic generation unit that creates a traffic demand matrix whose elements are values individually obtained by demands between nodes present in a target network area from a plurality of traffic demand matrices created based on predicted traffic demands between the nodes; and a network topology generation unit that generates a network topology based on the traffic demand matrix generated by the computation traffic generation unit and port information of the nodes in the network area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya ANAZAWA, Toru MANO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220352995
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system and a terminal capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a terminal according to the present invention learn an input and output relationship from terminal information such as surrounding environment information of the terminal that can be acquired by a camera, a sensor, or the like, and position information of the terminal and current communication quality to generate a learning model, and predict future communication quality using the learning model, the surrounding environment information and the terminal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220345919
    Abstract: An object is to provide a wireless terminal and a communication quality prediction method for enhancing the versatility of communication quality prediction. In the wireless terminal and the communication quality prediction method according to the present invention, objects are extracted from surrounding environment information such as a camera image collected by a surrounding environment information collection unit, the objects are classified into predetermined categories (for example, whether the extracted objects are persons or machines or whether their moving speeds are high or low), and an image is reconstructed for each category. It is possible to predict communication quality based also on, for example, operations or materials of the objects, by performing machine learning of the communication quality after reconstructing the image for each category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kahoko TAKAHASHI, Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220321447
    Abstract: Provided are a reliability estimation system and a reliability estimation method capable of reducing a calculation amount of a reliability of a plurality of networks between terminals in communication between the terminals over the plurality of networks. The reliability estimation system according to the present invention calculates, for each network, a contraction reliability Rx, a contraction reliability Rx? when nodes are contracted, and a contraction reliability RB? between the networks including the terminals, and a true value of the reliability between the terminals over the plurality of networks is between a product P1 (=RB? Rx) and a product P2 (=RB? Rx?). Instead of calculating the true value of the reliability, only an upper limit and a lower limit are calculated, and thus, it is possible to significantly low additional remark the calculation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Takeru INOUE, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220303645
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to propose a technique to enumerate intermediate configurations at high speeds. A configuration enumeration device 10 according to the present disclosure enumerates a network configuration in an input layer 21, an intermediate layer 22, and an output layer 23 that minimizes the number of mechanical patch panels provided in mechanical patch panels, by using a-quasi-nonblocking configurations, where a being 0 indicates a rearrangeably nonblocking configuration and ? being 1 indicates a strictly nonblocking configuration, for 0???1, when a minimum value C of wiring capacity of mechanical patch panels having the input layer 21, the intermediate layer 22, and the output layer 23 is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru MANO, Takeru INOUE