Patents by Inventor Tomohiko Asano

Tomohiko Asano 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: 20050010679
    Abstract: A message sending and reception optimizing method using a sender's end information processing apparatus disposed on a sender's end of a message and a recipient's end information processing apparatus disposed on a recipient's end of the message has a step of determining an optimum form of message sending and reception while considering convenience of a sender and/or a recipient by communicating predetermined information between the sender's end information processing apparatus and the recipient's end information processing apparatus before performance of the message sending and reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamaga, Mikito Hirata, Toru Usami, Tomohiko Asano, Hiroshi Date
  • Publication number: 20040254810
    Abstract: The customer information utilization system of the present invention includes history acquisition units, history storage units, and history utilization units. The history acquisition units are arranged in each device belonging to users and acquire history information relating to the history of use of the devices. The history storage units collect history information relating to the history of use of each device belonging to the users by way of the history acquisition units and store the history information. When a product or service is to be provided or when an application is to be executed, the history utilization units use appropriate history information of the history information relating to the history of use of each device belonging to the users to produce customer information that is to be utilized in the product, service or application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamaga, Mikito Hirata, Tomohiko Asano, Toru Usami, Hiroshi Date