Patents by Inventor Taro OKUYAMA

Taro OKUYAMA 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: 9565221
    Abstract: A communication management system that manages a plurality of communication terminals transmits, to a request communication terminal, one of operation state information indicating that an operation state of a candidate counterpart communication terminal is unknown or information indicating that a communications protocol of the candidate counterpart communication terminal is different from a communications protocol of the request communication terminal, when the communications protocol is different between the candidate counterpart communication terminal and the request communication terminal. The request communication terminal displays information to a user, which is generated based on the information received from the communication management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Okuyama, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20170026337
    Abstract: In response to a request for sending second candidate information of a first communication terminal to a second communication terminal, a communication management system adds at least one of the member communication terminals indicated by the second candidate information of the first communication terminal, to first candidate information of the second communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshiko AONO, Taro OKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9538001
    Abstract: A communication terminal accepts a communication start request for starting communication with a counterpart terminal indicated by counterpart information, through one of a first acceptance unit and a second acceptance unit. The communication terminal stores the counterpart information of the counterpart terminal in a first memory as log data, when the communication start request is accepted through the first acceptance unit, and prevents the counterpart information of the counterpart terminal from being stored in the first memory as log data, when the communication start request is accepted through the second acceptance unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 9516075
    Abstract: A transmission terminal includes: a memory to store, for each one of a plurality of candidate counterpart terminals that the transmission terminal is capable of communicating, address information indicating at least a location of the candidate counterpart terminal on a network; a user interface to receive a user input of address information of a counterpart terminal, and a communication start request that requests to start communication with the counterpart terminal; a processing circuitry to store the address information of the counterpart terminal received at the user interface in the memory, to register the counterpart terminal as a candidate counterpart terminal for the terminal; and a transmitter to send a request to start communication with the counterpart terminal using the address information of the counterpart terminal that is received at the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Okuyama, Yoshiko Aono
  • Patent number: 9509568
    Abstract: In response to a request for sending second candidate information of a first communication terminal to a second communication terminal, a communication management system adds at least one of the member communication terminals indicated by the second candidate information of the first communication terminal, to first candidate information of the second communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Aono, Taro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 9503439
    Abstract: A communication system includes a transmission terminal and a management device, and when having received contact list information about a second user from the management device while displaying a contact list about a first user or the transmission terminal, the transmission terminal creates the contact list about the second user based on the contact list information about the second user, and displays the contact list of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Okuyama, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9430215
    Abstract: A terminal is connected to a terminal management device and an update management device. The terminal includes: a determination request unit configured to request the terminal management device to determine whether or not an update of a program is executable; an acquisition unit configured to, when the determination request unit receives information indicating that the terminal is able to execute an update of a program, acquire an update program used for executing an update of the program from the update management device; and an updating unit configured to execute the update program received from the update management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mikiko Abe, Tsuyoshi Shigemasa, Masahiro Ujiie, Taro Okuyama, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 9432416
    Abstract: A communication management system that manages a plurality of communication terminals transmits, to a request communication terminal, one of operation state information indicating that an operation state of a candidate counterpart communication terminal is unknown or information indicating that a communications protocol of the candidate counterpart communication terminal is different from a communications protocol of the request communication terminal, when the communications protocol is different between the candidate counterpart communication terminal and the request communication terminal. The request communication terminal displays information to a user, which is generated based on the information received from the communication management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Okuyama, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9426417
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image control unit that controls an operation of imaging a picture image; a detection control unit that controls an operation of detecting whether a direction of imaging the picture image is changed or not; and a display control unit that controls an operation of displaying a display image which is generated based on the imaged picture image, and displays an image for setting when the detection control unit detects that the direction of imaging is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ujiie, Tsuyoshi Shigemasa, Mikiko Abe, Taro Okuyama, Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20160165180
    Abstract: A transmission management apparatus manages transmission states of a plurality of transmission terminals including a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Taro OKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9363477
    Abstract: A transmission management system receives a request for starting communication with a counterpart terminal from a terminal, which includes counterpart terminal identification information for identifying the counterpart terminal. In response to receiving the request, the transmission management system stores the counterpart terminal identification information of the counterpart terminal in association with terminal identification information of the terminal that sends the request to update candidate counterpart terminal identification for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 9307197
    Abstract: A transmission management apparatus manages transmission states of a plurality of transmission terminals including a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Taro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 9307201
    Abstract: A counterpart terminal information management system (50) includes: a terminal manager (5002) that manages, for each one of a plurality of terminals (10), terminal identification information for identifying the terminal, and terminal related information previously set by default, in association with each other; a counterpart terminal manager (5003) that manages, for each one of the plurality of terminals (10), the terminal identification information for identifying the terminal, counterpart terminal identification information for identifying a candidate counterpart terminal that may be requested by the terminal to have communication with, and counterpart terminal related information individually set by a user who operates the terminal (10), in association with one another; a receiver (51) that receives, from a first terminal (10aa), a request to share a candidate counterpart terminal managed for the first terminal (10aa) with the second terminal (10ac), and information indicating whether to permit or reject s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Okuyama, Yoshiko Aono
  • Patent number: 9264247
    Abstract: A transmission management system receives, from a request source terminal which is an addition request source requesting to add a certain transmission terminal as a destination candidate, an addition request for the destination candidate, identification information of the request source terminal and identification information of a request target terminal which is an addition request target of the destination candidate; and informs the request target terminal of an approval request for requesting the request target terminal to approve the addition request, and the identification of the request source terminal. The system receives an addition request response from the request target terminal in response to the addition request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Okuyama, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20150373062
    Abstract: A communication management system that manages a plurality of communication terminals transmits, to a request communication terminal, one of operation state information indicating that an operation state of a candidate counterpart communication terminal is unknown or information indicating that a communications protocol of the candidate counterpart communication terminal is different from a communications protocol of the request communication terminal, when the communications protocol is different between the candidate counterpart communication terminal and the request communication terminal. The request communication terminal displays information to a user, which is generated based on the information received from the communication management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Taro OKUYAMA, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9191428
    Abstract: A communication management system receives identification information of a first communication terminal, obtains identification information of a candidate second communication terminal that is associated with the identification information of the first communication terminal, and obtains communications protocol information indicating a communications protocol of the candidate second communication terminal using a part of the identification information of the candidate second communication terminal. The communication management system determines whether the communications protocol is the same for the first communication terminal and the candidate second communication terminal, and transmits information based on the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hinohara, Taro Okuyama, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20150229514
    Abstract: In a terminal management system, first terminal information indicating a communication terminal is stored in association with terminal identification information for identifying the communication terminal for each one of a plurality of communication terminals. The terminal management system further stores, for each one of one or more of the plurality of communication terminals that is registered as a counterpart terminal for a request sender terminal capable of starting communication, second terminal information indicating the communication terminal in association with the terminal identification information for identifying the communication terminal. The terminal management system updates, in response to updating of the first terminal information of a first communication terminal of the plurality of communication terminals, the second terminal information of the first communication terminal to match with the updated first terminal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Taro OKUYAMA, Akihiro Mihara
  • Publication number: 20150222670
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission system to manage sessions established between a plurality of terminals for performing voice communications. The transmission system includes an acquisition part configured to receive a user's request from a user of a first terminal when a session start request is transmitted from a first terminal to a second terminal, a first sender configured to send the received user's request together with the session start request, a second sender configured to send to the second terminal the session start request from the first terminal by attaching the user's request to the session start request when the second terminal is in a communication capable status, and a presenting part configured to present the user's request to the second terminal at an arrival of an incoming call from the first terminal to the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Taro OKUYAMA, Atsuhiro FUJII
  • Publication number: 20150148015
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method of managing candidate counterpart terminal information, each of which determines, in response to a request for adding a candidate counterpart terminal to a candidate list of a request sender terminal, whether attribute information stored in association with the request sender terminal matches attribute information stored in association with the candidate counterpart terminal to be added, and stores counterpart terminal identification information that identifies the candidate counterpart terminal in association with terminal identification information of the request sender terminal to update the candidate list of the specific request sender terminal when a determination result indicates that the attribute information match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Taro OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150081789
    Abstract: A transmission terminal includes: a memory to store, for each one of a plurality of candidate counterpart terminals that the transmission terminal is capable of communicating, address information indicating at least a location of the candidate counterpart terminal on a network; a user interface to receive a user input of address information of a counterpart terminal, and a communication start request that requests to start communication with the counterpart terminal; a processing circuitry to store the address information of the counterpart terminal received at the user interface in the memory, to register the counterpart terminal as a candidate counterpart terminal for the terminal; and a transmitter to send a request to start communication with the counterpart terminal using the address information of the counterpart terminal that is received at the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Taro OKUYAMA, Yoshiko AONO