Patents by Inventor Taro Morioka
Taro Morioka 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).
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Publication number: 20240135454Abstract: A server includes means for receiving a request for conversion from a first electronic value into a second electronic value from a user's terminal via a network, means for receiving an investment instruction to invest in the second electronic value obtained by the conversion from the user's terminal via the network, holding means for holding information regarding a type of merchandise corresponding to the second electronic value and a range of the second electronic value in association with each other, means for receiving a redemption instruction to redeem the second electronic value for the merchandise from the user's terminal via the network, the second electronic value being increased or decreased by the investment, and means for referring to the holding means and performing merchandise redemption processing on a basis of the received redemption instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMADA, Akira ARAI, Taro MORIOKA
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Publication number: 20230153702Abstract: A vehicle use ticket assignment system for assigning a vehicle use ticket for a vehicle for which there is at least one fixed route and there is a fixed get-on/off enable point on the route is disclosed. The system receives a condition that includes a departure point and does not include a designation of a destination, and extracts a predetermined number of destination candidates that can be reached from the departure point by the at least one fixed route. After an application for a ticket for a vehicle is received from an information processing terminal, the system selects and assigns to the user one of boarding tickets to each of the extracted predetermined number of destination candidates based on a predetermined criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD.Inventors: Taro Morioka, Akira Arai
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Patent number: 11514376Abstract: An airline ticket sales system having a stock recording unit retaining a stock of flights, and a destination candidate extraction unit including: receiving an input of at least one condition from a user via an information processing terminal, information about a destination airport being excluded from the condition; acquiring, from the stock recording unit, information about outbound candidate flights and inbound candidate flights satisfying the condition; extracting, as candidate airports, a predetermined number from airports common to arrival airports of the outbound candidate flights and departure airports of the inbound candidate flights; selecting, based on a predetermined criterion, one from round-trip candidate flights composed of combinations of the outbound candidate flights and the inbound candidate flights among the departure airports of the outbound candidate flights specified by the condition and the respective candidate airports; and regarding the selected one as a to-be-sold round-trip flight.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.Inventors: Taro Morioka, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Akira Arai, Takashi Sagimori, Hitoshi Matsuo, Takeo Shimada
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Patent number: 10848923Abstract: A user location information detection and tracking system includes an IC tag that a user can carry, a user terminal configured to receive identification information outputted from the IC tag, a magnetic field device configured to form a magnetic field in a predetermined area, and a managing device communicably connected to the user terminal. The IC tag outputs at a predetermined timing, as the identification information, tag ID for identifying the IC tag, in response to detection of the magnetic field formed by the magnetic field device, the IC tag outputs, as the identification information, magnetic field identification information for identifying the magnetic field, and in response to the identification information received from the IC tag, the user terminal sends the identification information to the managing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD.Inventors: Motoki Suzuki, Taro Morioka, Akira Arai, Hiroyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200314596Abstract: A user location information detection and tracking system includes an IC tag that a user can carry, a user terminal configured to receive identification information outputted from the IC tag, a magnetic field device configured to form a magnetic field in a predetermined area, and a managing device communicably connected to the user terminal. The IC tag outputs at a predetermined timing, as the identification information, tag ID for identifying the IC tag, in response to detection of the magnetic field formed by the magnetic field device, the IC tag outputs, as the identification information, magnetic field identification information for identifying the magnetic field, and in response to the identification information received from the IC tag, the user terminal sends the identification information to the managing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Motoki SUZUKI, Taro MORIOKA, Akira ARAI, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20200043037Abstract: A point management system manages points on the basis of an index related to a financial product, the points being held by a user in a loyalty points program with which accumulated points can be exchanged for a product or the like. The point management system includes a point management unit that, on the basis of a target value and/or a withdrawal value of a point balance in management set on the basis of a tiered unit of exchange in exchanging points for a product or the like, calculates information related to prediction of whether or not the point balance reaches each of the target value and/or the withdrawal value by a term, or selects a financial product with which the point balance is highly likely to reach the target value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Hiroyuki NAKAMURA, Akira ARAI, Taro MORIOKA, Ryoji KASHIWAGI, Hideaki YASUKAWA
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Publication number: 20180114150Abstract: An airline ticket sales system having a stock recording unit retaining a stock of flights, and a destination candidate extraction unit including: receiving an input of at least one condition from a user via an information processing terminal, information about a destination airport being excluded from the condition; acquiring, from the stock recording unit, information about outbound candidate flights and inbound candidate flights satisfying the condition; extracting, as candidate airports, a predetermined number from airports common to arrival airports of the outbound candidate flights and departure airports of the inbound candidate flights; selecting, based on a predetermined criterion, one from round-trip candidate flights composed of combinations of the outbound candidate flights and the inbound candidate flights among the departure airports of the outbound candidate flights specified by the condition and the respective candidate airports; and regarding the selected one as a to-be-sold round-trip flight.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.Inventors: Taro Morioka, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Akira Arai, Takashi Sagimori, Hitoshi Matsuo, Takeo Shimada