Patents by Inventor Takeshi Izaki

Takeshi Izaki 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: 9342261
    Abstract: A function execution device may receive a request signal from a terminal device; send a response signal in response to the request signal to the terminal device; receive a first signal including function information indicating a first specific function from the terminal device after having sent the response signal; determine whether the function execution device is capable of executing the first specific function; and cause an output unit of the function execution device to output a first notice in a case where it is determined that the function execution device is capable of executing the first specific function, and not to output the first notice in a case where it is determined that the function execution device is not capable of executing the first specific function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Izaki
  • Publication number: 20150277819
    Abstract: A function execution device may receive a request signal from a terminal device; send a response signal in response to the request signal to the terminal device; receive a first signal including function information indicating a first specific function from the terminal device after having sent the response signal, the first signal; determine whether the function execution device is capable of executing the first specific function; and cause an output unit of the function execution device to output a first notice in a case where it is determined that the function execution device is capable of executing the first specific function, and not to output the first notice in a case where it is determined that the function execution device is not capable of executing the first specific function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: Takeshi Izaki
  • Patent number: 8601074
    Abstract: An electronic mail receiving apparatus used in a system including an electronic mail transmitting apparatus, the electronic mail receiving apparatus, and an electronic mail server, includes: a communicating unit executes a first-kind electronic mail communication performed via the electronic mail server, and a second-kind electronic mail communication performed not via the electronic mail server; and a mail output controller configured to control an outputting unit configured to output an electronic mail received from the electronic mail transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Izaki
  • Patent number: 8457085
    Abstract: A wireless connecting system includes a first network apparatus connected to a wireless network and a second network apparatus to be connected to the wireless network. The first network apparatus stores a network wireless setting and an ad-hoc wireless setting. The second network apparatus stores the same ad-hoc wireless setting as that stored in the first network apparatus. The first network apparatus sends the network wireless setting using the ad-hoc wireless setting. The second network apparatus receives the network wireless setting using the ad-hoc wireless setting, determines whether or not the received network wireless setting is adaptive in the second network apparatus, and sends the determination result using the ad-hoc wireless setting. The first network apparatus receives the determination result using the ad-hoc wireless setting, and outputs the received determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Izaki
  • Patent number: 8437336
    Abstract: A telephone device may selectively communicate via a public telephone network and an IP telephone network. The device may be configured to identify, when a start operation is performed after a preparing operation being performed while the request notice is being executed, whether a destination of the preparing operation is public network destination or an IP network destination. Additionally, the device may identify whether the call request is a public network request or an IP network request. The device may be configured to send a call request to the public network destination when the call preparing operation destination is a public network destination and the call request is identified as an IP network call request. The device may be configured to send a call request to the IP network destination when the destination corresponding to the call preparing operation is identified as a destination in the IP network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Izaki
  • Patent number: 8386570
    Abstract: An electronic mail communication device is used in connection with a server for communicating an electronic mail. The electronic mail communication device is provided with an input device that inputs an electronic mail communication command, a storage that stores information indicating whether or not an electronic mail communication through the server is enabled, and a communication control device. The communication control device outputs a signal to the server to establish connection with the server in a case where the electronic mail communication command is input to the input device while the information indicating the communication enable state is stored in the storage. The communication control device inhibits from outputting the signal to the server in a case where the electronic mail communication command is input to the input device while the information indicating the communication disable state is stored in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Yanagi, Yasuhiro Kudo, Masaaki Hibino, Shohei Tsujimoto, Takeshi Izaki
  • Publication number: 20120066317
    Abstract: An electronic mail receiving apparatus used in a system including an electronic mail transmitting apparatus, the electronic mail receiving apparatus, and an electronic mail server, includes: a communicating unit executes a first-kind electronic mail communication performed via the electronic mail server, and a second-kind electronic mail communication performed not via the electronic mail server; and a mail output controller configured to control an outputting unit configured to output an electronic mail received from the electronic mail transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi IZAKI
  • Patent number: 8095627
    Abstract: An information processing device comprises: a communication unit which communicates with each device on a network, determines whether to accept data received from a device on the network or not based on a prescribed criterion, and transfers the received data to the inside in response to the received data being determined to be accepted based on the criterion; a setting change unit which makes a setting change to the criterion of the communication unit according to instructions represented by setting request data in response to receipt of the setting request data requesting for the setting change of the criterion from a device on the network via the communication unit; and a judgment unit which judges whether the communication with the device as the sender of the setting request data can be performed normally via the communication unit or not in response to the setting change by the setting change unit according to the setting request data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Izaki, Sunao Kawai
  • Patent number: 7769837
    Abstract: A computer program product for a wireless LAN system is configured such that connection settings necessary for a first communication terminal to connect with a wireless access point are made in accordance with an instruction from a second communication terminal, the second communication terminal being capable of performing data communication with the first communication terminal, the computer program product comprising computer readable instructions that cause a computer to function as the second communication terminal, the instructions defining procedures of determining, with performing data communication with the first communication terminal, whether the first communication terminal is capable of realizing a predetermined process regarding the connection settings by itself, and instructing the first communication terminal by sending the instruction for the connection settings to the first communication terminal in accordance with a result of determination made by the determining procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Nogawa, Sunao Kawai, Takao Seki, Takeshi Izaki, Atsushi Kojima, Masaaki Hibino
  • Patent number: 7756937
    Abstract: A network device is to be connected with a communication network. The network device is capable of executing a communication function by utilizing the communication network. The network device is provided with an input device, a storage, a communication device, and a communication test device. The input device inputs communication setting data for executing the communication function. The storage is capable of storing at least two patterns of the communication setting data. The communication device executes the communication function by utilizing one pattern of the communication setting data stored in the storage. The communication test device tests whether it is possible to execute the communication function by utilizing the other pattern of the communication setting data stored in the storage while maintaining a state where it is possible for the communication device to execute the communication function by utilizing the one pattern of the communication setting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Yanagi, Yasuhiro Kudo, Masaaki Hibino, Shohei Tsujimoto, Takeshi Izaki
  • Patent number: 7734301
    Abstract: A communication system has a main device capable of communicating with a destination station through a line and at least one subsidiary device connectable to the main device. The main device includes an operating state signal transmitting system that transmits an operating state signal representing that the main device is currently performing a predetermined operation when the main device receives, from the subsidiary device, a communication request signal requesting a communication from the subsidiary device through the line, while the subsidiary device includes a first notifying system that notifies that the main device is performing the predetermined operation when the subsidiary device receives the operating state signal from the main device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Izaki
  • Publication number: 20090225749
    Abstract: A telephone device may be configured to selectively communicate via a public telephone network and an IP telephone network. The telephone device may be configured to receive a call request. The telephone device may be configured to execute a call request notice on a condition that the call request is received. The telephone device may be configured to allow a user to perform an operation. The telephone device may be configured to construct a call established status with a source of the call request on a condition that a call start operation is performed without a call preparing operation being performed while the call request notice is executed. The telephone device may be configured to identify, on a condition that a call start operation is performed after a call preparing operation being performed while the call request notice is being executed, whether a destination corresponding to the call preparing operation is a destination in the public telephone network or a destination in the IP telephone network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi IZAKI
  • Publication number: 20090046686
    Abstract: A wireless connecting system includes a first network apparatus connected to a wireless network and a second network apparatus to be connected to the wireless network. The first network apparatus stores a network wireless setting and an ad-hoc wireless setting. The second network apparatus stores the same ad-hoc wireless setting as that stored in the first network apparatus. The first network apparatus sends the network wireless setting using the ad-hoc wireless setting. The second network apparatus receives the network wireless setting using the ad-hoc wireless setting, determines whether or not the received network wireless setting is adaptive in the second network apparatus, and sends the determination result using the ad-hoc wireless setting. The first network apparatus receives the determination result using the ad-hoc wireless setting, and outputs the received determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventor: Takeshi IZAKI
  • Publication number: 20080046521
    Abstract: A network device is to be connected with a communication network. The network device is capable of executing a communication function by utilizing the communication network. The network device is provided with an input device, a storage, a communication device, and a communication test device. The input device inputs communication setting data for executing the communication function. The storage is capable of storing at least two patterns of the communication setting data. The communication device executes the communication function by utilizing one pattern of the communication setting data stored in the storage. The communication test device tests whether it is possible to execute the communication function by utilizing the other pattern of the communication setting data stored in the storage while maintaining a state where it is possible for the communication device to execute the communication function by utilizing the one pattern of the communication setting data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Yanagi, Yasuhiro Kudo, Masaaki Hibino, Shohei Tsujimoto, Takeshi Izaki
  • Publication number: 20080046523
    Abstract: An electronic mail communication device is used in connection with a server for communicating an electronic mail. The electronic mail communication device is provided with an input device that inputs an electronic mail communication command, a storage that stores information indicating whether or not an electronic mail communication through the server is enabled, and a communication control device. The communication control device outputs a signal to the server to establish connection with the server in a case where the electronic mail communication command is input to the input device while the information indicating the communication enable state is stored in the storage. The communication control device inhibits from outputting the signal to the server in a case where the electronic mail communication command is input to the input device while the information indicating the communication disable state is stored in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Yanagi, Yasuhiro Kudo, Masaaki Hibino, Shohei Tsujimoto, Takeshi Izaki
  • Patent number: 7277530
    Abstract: An IP telephone apparatus having a plurality of types of calling functions including a telephone calling function for telecommunicating via a telephone network and a network calling function for telecommunicating via a computer network. The IP telephone apparatus includes a calling function detection unit configured to detect which calling function of the telephone calling function and the network calling function is selected, and a calling function notification unit that notifies a user that at least one of general telephone using the telephone calling function and network telephone using the network calling function is being in operation according to a detection result of the calling function detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tokunori Kato, Susumu Chida, Takeshi Izaki
  • Publication number: 20070043805
    Abstract: An information processing device comprises: a communication unit which communicates with each device on a network, determines whether to accept data received from a device on the network or not based on a prescribed criterion, and transfers the received data to the inside in response to the received data being determined to be accepted based on the criterion; a setting change unit which makes a setting change to the criterion of the communication unit according to instructions represented by setting request data in response to receipt of the setting request data requesting for the setting change of the criterion from a device on the network via the communication unit; and a judgment unit which judges whether the communication with the device as the sender of the setting request data can be performed normally via the communication unit or not in response to the setting change by the setting change unit according to the setting request data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Izaki, Sunao Kawai
  • Patent number: 7062023
    Abstract: An telephone terminal with an alarm which can output an alarm sound without harming the user's ear. In the case where the present time reaches the preset alarm time while a cordless handset of the telephone terminal is in call status, output of an alarm sound is withheld. When the call on the handset is terminated, an alarm sound is outputted at a preset volume from a speaker of the handset after a predetermined hold time passes from the time of the termination of the call. In the case where the present time reaches the preset alarm time while the handset is in operation status to input information, the output of the alarm sound is withheld. When the operation of the handset is terminated, the alarm sound is outputted at a lower volume than the preset volume, from the speaker of the handset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Izaki
  • Publication number: 20050148326
    Abstract: A computer program product for a wireless LAN system is configured such that connection settings necessary for a first communication terminal to connect with a wireless access point are made in accordance with an instruction from a second communication terminal, the second communication terminal being capable of performing data communication with the first communication terminal, the computer program product comprising computer readable instructions that cause a computer to function as the second communication terminal, the instructions defining procedures of determining, with performing data communication with the first communication terminal, whether the first communication terminal is capable of realizing a predetermined process regarding the connection settings by itself, and instructing the first communication terminal by sending the instruction for the connection settings to the first communication terminal in accordance with a result of determination made by the determining procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Nogawa, Sunao Kawai, Takao Seki, Takeshi Izaki, Atsushi Kojima, Masaaki Hibino
  • Publication number: 20050069108
    Abstract: An telephone terminal with an alarm which can output an alarm sound without harming the user's ear. In the case where the present time reaches the preset alarm time while a cordless handset of the telephone terminal is in call status, output of an alarm sound is withheld. When the call on the handset is terminated, an alarm sound is outputted at a preset volume from a speaker of the handset after a predetermined hold time passes from the time of the termination of the call. In the case where the present time reaches the preset alarm time while the handset is in operation status to input information, the output of the alarm sound is withheld. When the operation of the handset is terminated, the alarm sound is outputted at a lower volume than the preset volume, from the speaker of the handset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Izaki