Patents by Inventor Tatsuhiko SONE

Tatsuhiko SONE 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).

  • Publication number: 20230319214
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface. The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kunihito TERASHITA, Naoki YOSHIDA, Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20230280952
    Abstract: A terminal device may obtain specific information stored in a memory. The specific information may include at least one of region information indicating a region where the terminal device is used and model information of a printing device used by the terminal device. The printing device may be configured to execute printing by using a plurality of cartridges corresponding to a plurality of colors. The terminal device may determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied or not by using the specific information, and in a case where it is determined that the condition is satisfied, send a first page request and color information to a server. The color information may indicate a selected color selected from the plurality of colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Patent number: 11711481
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface. The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihito Terashita, Naoki Yoshida, Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 11687296
    Abstract: A terminal device may obtain specific information stored in a memory. The specific information may include at least one of region information indicating a region where the terminal device is used and model information of a printing device used by the terminal device. The printing device may be configured to execute printing by using a plurality of cartridges corresponding to a plurality of colors. The terminal device may determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied or not by using the specific information, and in a case where it is determined that the condition is satisfied, send a first page request and color information to a server. The color information may indicate a selected color selected from the plurality of colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Publication number: 20230008451
    Abstract: A terminal device may obtain specific information stored in a memory. The specific information may include at least one of region information indicating a region where the terminal device is used and model information of a printing device used by the terminal device. The printing device may be configured to execute printing by using a plurality of cartridges corresponding to a plurality of colors. The terminal device may determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied or not by using the specific information, and in a case where it is determined that the condition is satisfied, send a first page request and color information to a server. The color information may indicate a selected color selected from the plurality of colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Patent number: 11468140
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program, when executed by a computer, causing an information processing device to perform: selecting a target device for executing predetermined data processing based on an operation received by an operation unit; receiving an execution instruction by a user, which is for causing the selected target device to execute the predetermined data processing; acquiring identification information of the target device; generating a display URL which is for displaying a specific page on a display by a Web browser, the specific page being a Web page corresponding to the acquired identification information; determining whether a specific condition is satisfied, the specific condition being a condition for displaying the specific page on the display; and opening the Web browser by designating the generated display URL after the execution instruction is received and in a case where it is determined that the specific condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 11425773
    Abstract: A terminal device may acquire first connection information including a plurality of parameters, and send the first connection information to a communication device by using a first wireless connection and not via an access point. The first connection information is used in the communication device to execute a process for establishing a wireless connection with a target access point. The terminal device may receive a failure notification indicating that the process has failed from the communication device by using the first wireless connection and not via an access point in a case where the process in the communication device has failed, and display a cause screen indicating that the process has failed due to the specific parameter on a display unit in a case where the failure notification is received from the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keishi Naka, Hiroyuki Yamaoka, Tatsuhiko Sone, Naoki Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20220104006
    Abstract: Computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor of a terminal device, may cause the terminal device to: repeatedly execute a first-type communication process using first-type communication via Internet, wherein the first-type communication process is for receiving related information which is related to a communication device; and repeatedly execute a second-type communication process using second-type communication not via the Internet, wherein the second-type communication process is for receiving the related information. A first interval for repeatedly executing the first-type communication process may be longer than a second interval for repeatedly executing the second-type communication process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20220014644
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface. The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kunihito TERASHITA, Naoki YOSHIDA, Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Patent number: 11218609
    Abstract: A terminal device may register first device information of a first image processing device in a memory; specify by using the first device information, N applications corresponding to one or more types of image processes that the first image processing device is capable of executing from among M applications; display a first menu screen on a display unit, the first menu screen including N icons indicating the specified N applications, each of the N icons having a first type of displaying state that is capable of accepting a selecting operation for using an application, the first menu screen not including each of (M-N) icons having the first type of displaying state, the (M-N) icons indicating (M-N) applications; send an execution instruction to the first image processing device by using a target application indicated by a target icon selected from among the N icons in the first menu screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 11188278
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable program instructions executable by a controller of a mobile terminal. The program instructions are configured to, when executed, cause the controller to control a device to perform image data processing, obtain, in response to receipt of an update notification from a server via a communication interface, the update notification, the update notification representing that the program instructions are updatable and containing urgency level information representing an urgency level showing how urgently the program instructions need to be updated, determine whether user informing conditions concerning the obtained update notification are satisfied, the user informing conditions being satisfied depending on the urgency level, and display, when determining that the user informing conditions are satisfied, an update object representing that the program instructions are updatable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 11175862
    Abstract: A portable terminal has a memory having a program stored thereon and readably by a computer. The program causes the portable terminal to perform acquiring group ID and setting information, storing the group ID and the setting information in association with each other, receiving first instruction information for instructing execution of association processing for the stored group ID, acquiring device ID to identify the device, to which the portable terminal is brought close, from the device through the data acquisition interface, executing the association processing of associating the stored group ID and the device ID acquired through the data acquisition interface after receiving the first instruction information and acquiring the device ID through the data acquisition interface, and storing the association, and after executing the association processing, transmitting the setting information associated with the group ID to the device associated with the group ID, through the network interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 11159696
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface. The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihito Terashita, Naoki Yoshida, Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 11102374
    Abstract: In an information processing terminal, a processor receiving identification information from another program. The identification information is for identifying an image processing operation. The processor performs a first determination process determining whether the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation identified by the identification information. The processor performs a first display process displaying determination information indicating a result of the first determination process. The processor receives operation condition information from the external program in a case where the first determination process determines that the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation. The operation condition information indicates a condition for executing the image processing operation. The processor transmits a command to the specified apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sato, Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Publication number: 20210109988
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program, when executed by a computer, causing an information processing device to perform: selecting a target device for executing predetermined data processing based on an operation received by an operation unit; receiving an execution instruction by a user, which is for causing the selected target device to execute the predetermined data processing; acquiring identification information of the target device; generating a display URL which is for displaying a specific page on a display by a Web browser, the specific page being a Web page corresponding to the acquired identification information; determining whether a specific condition is satisfied, the specific condition being a condition for displaying the specific page on the display; and opening the Web browser by designating the generated display URL after the execution instruction is received and in a case where it is determined that the specific condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10798269
    Abstract: A communication system including an image processing apparatus configured to, in response to receiving acquisition instruction information from a server via indirect communication, receive authentication information from an information processing terminal device via near-field wireless communication, transmit the received authentication information to the server via the indirect communication, and in response to receiving communication instruction information, which indicates a method for data communication with a service providing apparatus, from the server via the indirect communication, perform data communication with the service providing apparatus in accordance with the received communication instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishibashi, Tatsuhiko Sone, Ken Saito
  • Publication number: 20200310707
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable program instructions executable by a controller of a mobile terminal. The program instructions are configured to, when executed, cause the controller to control a device to perform image data processing, obtain, in response to receipt of an update notification from a server via a communication interface, the update notification, the update notification representing that the program instructions are updatable and containing urgency level information representing an urgency level showing how urgently the program instructions need to be updated, determine whether user informing conditions concerning the obtained update notification are satisfied, the user informing conditions being satisfied depending on the urgency level, and display, when determining that the user informing conditions are satisfied, an update object representing that the program instructions are updatable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20200267273
    Abstract: A terminal device may register first device information of a first image processing device in a memory; specify by using the first device information, N applications corresponding to one or more types of image processes that the first image processing device is capable of executing from among M applications; display a first menu screen on a display unit, the first menu screen including N icons indicating the specified N applications, each of the N icons having a first type of displaying state that is capable of accepting a selecting operation for using an application, the first menu screen not including each of (M-N) icons having the first type of displaying state, the (M-N) icons indicating (M-N) applications; send an execution instruction to the first image processing device by using a target application indicated by a target icon selected from among the N icons in the first menu screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20200228676
    Abstract: In an information processing terminal, a processor receiving identification information from another program. The identification information is for identifying an image processing operation. The processor performs a first determination process determining whether the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation identified by the identification information. The processor performs a first display process displaying determination information indicating a result of the first determination process. The processor receives operation condition information from the external program in a case where the first determination process determines that the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation. The operation condition information indicates a condition for executing the image processing operation. The processor transmits a command to the specified apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Hirokazu SATO, Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20200159469
    Abstract: A portable terminal has a memory having a program stored thereon and readably by a computer. The program causes the portable terminal to perform acquiring group ID and setting information, storing the group ID and the setting information in association with each other, receiving first instruction information for instructing execution of association processing for the stored group ID, acquiring device ID to identify the device, to which the portable terminal is brought close, from the device through the data acquisition interface, executing the association processing of associating the stored group ID and the device ID acquired through the data acquisition interface after receiving the first instruction information and acquiring the device ID through the data acquisition interface, and storing the association, and after executing the association processing, transmitting the setting information associated with the group ID to the device associated with the group ID, through the network interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone