Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Otani

Tetsuo Otani 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: 9733639
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamic facility management system that is able to start quickly and monitor a state when various measuring instruments are attached to or removed from the facility to be securely monitored and maintained. The system includes a sensor as a measuring instrument. A measuring instrument reading device, which is a lower level device, transmits a type of the measuring instrument and a purpose of connecting the measuring instrument to a directory server. The directory server generates an instance by referring to class information and generates and registers a relation instance by referring to an inter-class relationship. The directory server transmits the generated instance to related devices on the basis of an inter-instance relationship, and the directory server exchanges facility management data between instances on the basis of the inter-instance relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuo Otani, Yuji Kimura, Shigeki Katayama
  • Publication number: 20150148917
    Abstract: In order to set automatically related software in a facility management system and to start quickly and easily a state monitoring when various measuring instruments are attached to or removed from a facility to be monitored, secured, and maintained, when a sensor which is the measuring instrument is connected, a measuring-instrument reading device which is a lower level device transmits a type of the measuring instrument and a purpose of connecting the measuring instrument to a directory server, the directory server generates an instance by referring to class information and generates and registers a relation instance by referring to an inter-class relationship, the directory server transmits the generated instance to a related devices on the basis of an inter-instance relationship, and the directory server exchanges facility management data between instances on the basis of the inter-instance relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Otani, Yuji Kimura, Shigeki Katayama