Patents by Inventor Teruhiko TERAOKA

Teruhiko TERAOKA 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: 20150149322
    Abstract: Provided is an information transaction apparatus including a receiving unit, a storage unit, and a transaction unit. The receiving unit receives user information on an information provider or a provider terminal from the provider terminal used by the information provider. The storage unit stores the user information received by the receiving unit in a user information memory unit. In the case of accepting an acquisition request for the user information from a user terminal used by an information user, the transaction unit controls a transaction process of providing the user information corresponding to the acquisition request to the user terminal and paying a reward to the information provider which is a transmission source of the provided user information based on factor information which affects a value of the user information stored in the user information memory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Teruhiko TERAOKA, Hidehito GOMI, Kota TSUBOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150066586
    Abstract: A delivery device according to the present invention includes a storing unit and a calculating unit. The storing unit stores a number of views a webpage concerning a commercial product and a number of behaviors which result in profitable behavior which leads a profit of a provider who provides the webpage by the user who accesses the webpage in a memory unit for every commercial product. The calculating unit calculates an evaluation value of the commercial product based on the number of views the webpage concerning the commercial product and the number of behaviors of the webpage stored in the memory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Yahoo Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Teruhiko TERAOKA, Masajiro IWASAKI
  • Patent number: 8943535
    Abstract: An advertisement distribution apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a display request including a viewpoint condition and advertisement information; an advertisement space setting unit that sets an advertisement space corresponding to the viewpoint condition to video data of an arbitrary viewpoint position generated based on imaging data having different viewpoint positions; an advertisement information setting unit that sets the advertisement information received by the receiver to the advertisement space set by the advertisement space setting unit; and a video transmitter that transmits the video data of the arbitrary viewpoint position in which the advertisement information is set in the advertisement space to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuki Sakamoto, Teruhiko Teraoka, Tomonori Saita, Hiroshi Machida, Kohei Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20140234823
    Abstract: An assignment sharing device includes an assignment-related information storage unit configured to store assignment-related information including assignment information, challenger identification information, assignment approval information, and assignment achievement status information; an assignment information receiving unit configured to receive the assignment information and so forth; an assignment-related information accumulating unit configured to accumulate the assignment information and so forth as a single piece of assignment-related information; an assignment information transmitting unit configured to transmit corresponding assignment information to a challenger; an assignment approval receiving unit configured to receive assignment identification information identifying an assignment approved by the challenger; an assignment approving unit configured to set assignment approval information; and an assignment result information receiving unit configured to receive assignment result information, whi
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JANPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehito GOMI, Teruhiko TERAOKA, Kota TSUBOUCHI, Nobuyuki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20140059588
    Abstract: An advertisement distribution apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a display request including a viewpoint condition and advertisement information; an advertisement space setting unit that sets an advertisement space corresponding to the viewpoint condition to video data of an arbitrary viewpoint position generated based on imaging data having different viewpoint positions; an advertisement information setting unit that sets the advertisement information received by the receiver to the advertisement space set by the advertisement space setting unit; and a video transmitter that transmits the video data of the arbitrary viewpoint position in which the advertisement information is set in the advertisement space to a terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuki SAKAMOTO, Teruhiko TERAOKA, Tomonori SAITA, Hiroshi MACHIDA, Kohei YOKOI