Patents by Inventor Tomihiko Nakajima

Tomihiko Nakajima 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).

  • SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SERVER PROVIDING METHOD
    Publication number: 20120324437
    Abstract: In service providing apparatus and method, system identification data for specifying a service target device and the user of the device concerned are issued to the device concerned, and authentication processing is carried out on the basis of the system identification data to provide a service to the device concerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Sakaguchi, Tomihiko Nakajima, Yoshifumi Ueno, Tetsuo Sasaki, Osamu Aoki, Akinori Iida, Masayuki Kobuna, Shinichiro Taya, Kazuhiro Gotoh, Toshiyuki Gotoh, Motohiro Ohama
  • Service providing apparatus and server providing method
    Patent number: 8300819
    Abstract: In service providing apparatus and method, system identification data for specifying a service target device and the user of the device concerned are issued to the device concerned, and authentication processing is carried out on the basis of the system identification data to provide a service to the device concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Sakaguchi, Tomihiko Nakajima, Yoshifumi Ueno, Tetsuo Sasaki, Osamu Aoki, Akinori Iida, Masayuki Kobuna, Shinichiro Taya, Kazuhiro Gotoh, Toshiyuki Gotoh, legal representative, Motohiro Ohama
  • Client terminal, software control method and control program
    Publication number: 20050021992
    Abstract: In order to prevent software sold by a software sale server to a user and downloaded to a computer of the user from being copied and used illegally, the software server is informed of apparatus information unique to the computer and a user ID assigned to the user when the computer of the user is sold to the user. When the user purchases software from the software server, the software server saves the name and version of the software, associating the name and the version with the user ID and the apparatus information. When the user activates the software for the first time, the computer transmits the user ID, the apparatus information, the software name and the software version to the software server to be collated with their respective counterparts, which were saved before. If a result of collation indicates that the pieces of information match their counterparts, a license key for activating the software is transmitted to the computer of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Taku Aida, Akiro Iida, Yoshinobu Endo, Tomihiko Nakajima, Kaoru Kosuge, Haruhiko Sakaguchi, Yutaka Murakami
  • Software providing system, software providing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program
    Publication number: 20040148525
    Abstract: A first client device is allowed to run software that a second client device owned by the same user has been allowed to run. At that time, a user ID of the user, a device ID of the second client device, and a software ID of the software, registered in association with each other, are deleted from a database server, and the software ID of the software is registered in association with the user ID of the user and the device ID of the first client device. When it has been verified that the software ID is registered in association with the user ID of the user and the device ID of the first client device, a license key is issued to the first client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Aida, Tomihiko Nakajima, Akinori Iida, Yoshinobu Endo
  • Service providing apparatus and server providing method
    Publication number: 20040010685
    Abstract: In service providing apparatus and method, system identification data for specifying a service target device and the user of the device concerned are issued to the device concerned, and authentication processing is carried out on the basis of the system identification data to provide a service to the device concerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Sakaguchi, Tomihiko Nakajima, Yoshifumi Ueno, Tetsuo Sasaki, Osamu Aoki, Akinori Iida, Masayuki Kobuna, Shinichiro Taya, Kazuhiro Gotoh, Motohiro Ohama