Patents by Inventor Takeshi Natsuno

Takeshi Natsuno 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: 10460537
    Abstract: A gate control system includes an authentication device and a gate control device. The authentication device specifies a card number of a credit card of a user of a gaming facility, performs a credit inquiry of the credit card using the card number, and transmits permission information indicating that the gate should be opened to the gate control device when a result of the credit inquiry indicates that using the credit card is approved. Upon receiving the permission information from the authentication device, the gate control device opens the gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TECHFIRM INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Yuichiro Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20170221286
    Abstract: A gate control system includes an authentication device and a gate control device. The authentication device specifies a card number of a credit card of a user of a gaming facility, performs a credit inquiry of the credit card using the card number, and transmits permission information indicating that the gate should be opened to the gate control device when a result of the credit inquiry indicates that using the credit card is approved. Upon receiving the permission information from the authentication device, the gate control device opens the gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Yuichiro Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 8611961
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device of the invention is a mobile terminal device capable of placing and receiving calls by first identification information, and of placing and receiving calls by second identification information, and is characterized by having a mode changing section that changes a mode among a first mode, a second mode and a common mode, and an outgoing call control section which places a call by the first identification information in the first mode, places a call by the second identification information in the second mode, and places a call by either the first identification information or the second identification information in the common mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akiko Irie, Takayuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Miyakawa, Yasushi Tachibana, Takayuki Orii, Takeshi Natsuno, Tomohiro Ando
  • Patent number: 8428656
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device of the invention is a mobile terminal device capable of placing and receiving calls by first identification information, and of placing and receiving calls by second identification information, and is characterized by having a mode changing section that changes a mode among a first mode, a second mode and a common mode, and an outgoing call control section which places a call by the first identification information in the first mode, places a call by the second identification information in the second mode, and places a call by either the first identification information or the second identification information in the common mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akiko Irie, Takayuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Miyakawa, Yasushi Tachibana, Takayuki Orii, Takeshi Natsuno, Tomohiro Ando
  • Publication number: 20120276950
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device of the invention is a mobile terminal device capable of placing and receiving calls by first identification information, and of placing and receiving calls by second identification information, and is characterized by having a mode changing section that changes a mode among a first mode, a second mode and a common mode, and an outgoing call control section which places a call by the first identification information in the first mode, places a call by the second identification information in the second mode, and places a call by either the first identification information or the second identification information in the common mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Akiko Irie, Takayuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Miyakawa, Yasushi Tachibana, Takayuki Orii, Takeshi Natsuno, Tomohiro Ando
  • Patent number: 8166291
    Abstract: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management server 16, mobile terminal 11 manages operations of the application programs. Operations of the application programs are coordinated with operations of other programs using the information concerning the reliabilities corresponding to the application programs. Management of the coordinated operations of the application programs avoids problems concerning information security, where valuable information may be distributed unexpectedly because of operations of low reliable application programs. As a result, convenience of users of mobile terminals 11 can be improved without deteriorating the information security of mobile terminals 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Masaaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Washio, Hiroshi Kawabata
  • Patent number: 8140846
    Abstract: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management server 16, mobile terminal 11 manages operations of the application programs. Operations of the application programs are coordinated with operations of other programs using the information concerning the reliabilities corresponding to the application programs. Management of the coordinated operations of the application programs avoids problems concerning information security, where valuable information may be distributed unexpectedly because of operations of low reliable application programs. As a result, convenience of users of mobile terminals 11 can be improved without deteriorating the information security of mobile terminals 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Masaaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Washio, Hiroshi Kawabata
  • Patent number: 8112115
    Abstract: A mobile base station device and billing method, which can provide an incentive for use at a specific position, while securing convenience for users, are provided. In a mobile base station device 10, upon installation by an owner, registered user terminal-specific information transmitted from a network N, and installation position information specifying the installation position, are stored. When there is transmission from a portable terminal 30, judgment is made as to whether the user of the portable terminal 30 is a registered user and as to whether transmission is from within a prescribed area; only when these conditions are satisfied, a communication connection is established at a flat rate. By this means, in the mobile base station device 10, an incentive can be provided to users for use in a specific position. Further, billing adjustments are made for use at other than the specific position, but communication service is not completely forbidden, and user convenience is secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8108312
    Abstract: A duplication/delivery center DDS records contents C11 and C12 on a recording medium M in accordance with requests from content providing apparatuses CP11 and CP12, duplicates the recording medium M, and delivers the recording medium M to users. When doing so, parts of the contents are encrypted. The content providing apparatuses CP11 and CP12 request a content control apparatus CC1 to control the contents on the recording media M. At the side of contents users, when a user sets a recording medium M in a video game console GM and tries to use a content that has been encrypted, the video game console GM requests, via a mobile packet communication network MPN, the content control apparatus CC1 to transmit a decryption key. The content control apparatus CC1 decides whether or not to transmit the decryption key based on the content of the request received from the content providing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc,
    Inventor: Takeshi Natsuno
  • Patent number: 8107925
    Abstract: This invention provides a mobile base station device which allows tamper resistance to be adequately secured even when the housing is opened illicitly. In a mobile base station device 1, when a housing 2 is opened illicitly, a user ID or similar is transmitted to a service management server 20, and the user attempting an illicit operation is identified. By registering the identified user on a blacklist, subsequent use of the mobile base station device 1 by this user can be prohibited. Also, in the mobile base station device 1, together with transmission of the user ID, a communication control program 7 is deleted from a communication control module 6, so that the interior of the housing 2 is rendered a “black box”, and modification and illicit use of the communication control program can be deterred. As a result, even when the housing 2 of the mobile base station device 1 is opened illicitly, tamper resistance can be adequately secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8010095
    Abstract: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management server 16, mobile terminal 11 manages operations of the application programs. Operations of the application programs are coordinated with operations of other programs using the information concerning the reliabilities corresponding to the application programs. Management of the coordinated operations of the application programs avoids problems concerning information security, where valuable information may be distributed unexpectedly because of operations of low reliable application programs. As a result, convenience of users of mobile terminals 11 can be improved without deteriorating the information security of mobile terminals 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Masaaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Washio, Hiroshi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20110098089
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device of the invention is a mobile terminal device capable of placing and receiving calls by first identification information, and of placing and receiving calls by second identification information, and is characterized by having a mode changing section that changes a mode among a first mode, a second mode and a common mode, and an outgoing call control section which places a call by the first identification information in the first mode, places a call by the second identification information in the second mode, and places a call by either the first identification information or the second identification information in the common mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Akiko Irie, Takayuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Miyakawa, Yasushi Tachibana, Takayuki Orii, Takeshi Natsuno, Tomohiro Ando
  • Patent number: 7742756
    Abstract: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management server 16, mobile terminal 11 manages operations of the application programs. Operations of the application programs are coordinated with operations of other programs using the information concerning the reliabilities corresponding to the application programs. Management of the coordinated operations of the application programs avoids problems concerning information security, where valuable information may be distributed unexpectedly because of operations of low reliable application programs. As a result, convenience of users of mobile terminals 11 can be improved without deteriorating the information security of mobile terminals 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Masaaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Washio, Hiroshi Kawabata
  • Patent number: 7706786
    Abstract: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management server 16, mobile terminal 11 manages operations of the application programs. Operations of the application programs are coordinated with operations of other programs using the information concerning the reliabilities corresponding to the application programs. Management of the coordinated operations of the application programs avoids problems concerning information security, where valuable information may be distributed unexpectedly because of operations of low reliable application programs. As a result, convenience of users of mobile terminals 11 can be improved without deteriorating the information security of mobile terminals 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Masaaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Washio, Hiroshi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20090327825
    Abstract: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management server 16, mobile terminal 11 manages operations of the application programs. Operations of the application programs are coordinated with operations of other programs using the information concerning the reliabilities corresponding to the application programs. Management of the coordinated operations of the application programs avoids problems concerning information security, where valuable information may be distributed unexpectedly because of operations of low reliable application programs. As a result, convenience of users of mobile terminals 11 can be improved without deteriorating the information security of mobile terminals 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Masaaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Washio, Hiroshi Kawabata
  • Patent number: 7604163
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal (the mobile station 100), served in a mobile communication network for performing wireless communications, comprises a transmitter-receiver 110, a controller 120, a user interface 130, a data input/output terminal 140, a magnetic writer 150, and a magnetic stripe 160. Control programs stored in a program ROM 122 include a program for controlling the magnetic writer such as writes or deletes various information into/from the magnetic stripe 160. In a credit card ROM 123 are stored information on the attributes of a credit card contract concluded in advance between a user and a credit card company. The magnetic writer 150 writes credit card contract information provided from the controller 120 to the magnetic stripe 160 or deletes the credit card contract information from the magnetic stripe 160.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventor: Takeshi Natsuno
  • Publication number: 20090209294
    Abstract: This invention provides a mobile base station device which can simplify the setting of internal functions, as well as a portable terminal used in operation of such a mobile base station device. In a mobile base station device 1 and a portable terminal 2, when the portable terminal 2 is physically connected to the mobile base station device 1 by means of a dedicated USB cable 6, one screen information item conforming to the type and browser of the portable terminal 2 is transmitted to the portable terminal 2, and a configuration settings screen for the mobile base station device 1 is displayed in the browser of the portable terminal 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090177593
    Abstract: A mobile base station device and billing method, which can provide an incentive for use at a specific position, while securing convenience for users, are provided. In a mobile base station device 10, upon installation by an owner, registered user terminal-specific information transmitted from a network N, and installation position information specifying the installation position, are stored. When there is transmission from a portable terminal 30, judgment is made as to whether the user of the portable terminal 30 is a registered user and as to whether transmission is from within a prescribed area; only when these conditions are satisfied, a communication connection is established at a flat rate. By this means, in the mobile base station device 10, an incentive can be provided to users for use in a specific position. Further, billing adjustments are made for use at other than the specific position, but communication service is not completely forbidden, and user convenience is secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090131019
    Abstract: This invention provides a mobile base station device which allows tamper resistance to be adequately secured even when the housing is opened illicitly. In a mobile base station device 1, when a housing 2 is opened illicitly, a user ID or similar is transmitted to a service management server 20, and the user attempting an illicit operation is identified. By registering the identified user on a blacklist, subsequent use of the mobile base station device 1 by this user can be prohibited. Also, in the mobile base station device 1, together with transmission of the user ID, a communication control program 7 is deleted from a communication control module 6, so that the interior of the housing 2 is rendered a “black box”, and modification and illicit use of the communication control program can be deterred. As a result, even when the housing 2 of the mobile base station device 1 is opened illicitly, tamper resistance can be adequately secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo , Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 7447772
    Abstract: An authentication processing system includes a communication network, a plurality of terminal apparatuses, and an authentication undertaking apparatus. The authentication undertaking apparatus authenticates the user of each terminal apparatus through utilization of data which include at least either data fixedly assigned to the terminal apparatus or data peculiar to the user, specifies a site which the user wishes to utilize, and undertakes authentication processing with reference to a database which stores authentication data which become necessary when the authenticated user utilizes the desired site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Ryuji Kuwana