Patents by Inventor Takuro Sonoyama

Takuro Sonoyama 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).

  • Information processing apparatus, content management method and recording medium
    Patent number: 8140648
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit for saving content data, a communication unit for communicating with one or more external storage devices, and a content management unit for, when receiving from the external storage device through the communication unit a notification indicating that new content data is saved in the external storage device, acquiring the new content data from the storage device through the communication unit with the notification as a trigger, and saving the new content data in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuro Sonoyama
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20100174804
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit for saving content data, a communication unit for communicating with one or more external storage devices, and a content management unit for, when receiving from the external storage device through the communication unit a notification indicating that new content data is saved in the external storage device, acquiring the new content data from the storage device through the communication unit with the notification as a trigger, and saving the new content data in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuro Sonoyama