Patents by Inventor Toru Mano
Toru Mano 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).
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Publication number: 20250141546Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a creation unit that creates a table in which a value of repeatedly applied electrical noise is associated with a bit error rate occurring at the time of application of the electrical noise in an optical transmission and reception module for transmitting a bit string to itself in a predetermined transmission mode, and an estimation unit that estimates and calculates an actual device noise curve of the optical transmission and reception module, calculates a theoretical noise curve of the optical transmission and reception module using a theoretical equation for the transmission mode, estimates and calculates a noise amount of the optical transmission and reception module from a deviation between the actual device noise curve and the theoretical noise curve, and estimates and calculates optical transmission and reception characteristics of the optical transmission and reception module as actual device characteristics using the noise amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: May 1, 2025Inventors: Kazuya ANAZAWA, Toru MANO, Kei Kitamura, Yoshiaki SONE, Hideki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 12225331Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to propose a technique to enumerate intermediate configurations at high speeds. A configuration enumeration device 10 according to the present disclosure enumerates a network configuration in an input layer 21, an intermediate layer 22, and an output layer 23 that minimizes the number of mechanical patch panels provided in mechanical patch panels, by using ?-quasi-nonblocking configurations, where ? being 0 indicates a rearrangeably nonblocking configuration and ? being 1 indicates a strictly nonblocking configuration, for 0???1, when a minimum value C of wiring capacity of mechanical patch panels having the input layer 21, the intermediate layer 22, and the output layer 23 is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Mano, Takeru Inoue
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Publication number: 20250039262Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of computing machines 1 and 2 connected to an optical network, in which the optical network includes a main signal communication path 4 and a control communication path 3. Each of the computing machines 1 and 2 includes a control unit 14 that sets a remote direct memory access (RDMA) communication path, and a communication unit 11 that transmits a setting request including setting information of the RDMA communication path set by the control unit 14 and setting information for setting the main signal communication path 4 to a computing machine of an access destination via the control communication path 3; and a main signal transmitting/receiving unit 16 that establishes the main signal communication path 4 based on the setting information of the main signal communication path 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Kiwami INOUE, Junki ICHIKAWA, Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Kenji SHIMIZU, Hideki Nishizawa, Toru MANO, Tomoya HIBI
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Publication number: 20240414092Abstract: A communication system includes a first intermediate device 10A and a second intermediate device 10B, in which the first intermediate device includes a buffer management unit 15 that determines a buffer size based on delay information and secures a buffer, a transfer unit 11 that, when data to be transferred to a second device 50 is smaller than a credit of the second intermediate device, transfers a request including the data to the second intermediate device, and a generation unit 12A that generates a pseudo-response to the request and returns the pseudo-response to the first device, and the second intermediate device includes a buffer management unit 15 that determines a buffer size based on the delay information and secures a buffer, a transfer unit 11 that transfers the request to the second device and stores the request in the buffer to update the credit of its own device, and a discarding unit 12B that discards a response received from the second device, deletes the request stored in the buffer, and upType: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Tomoya HIBI, Junki ICHIKAWA, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Kenji SHIMIZU, Hideki NISHIZAWA, Koichi TAKASUGI
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Publication number: 20240385986Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of computing machines connected to an optical network, in which the optical network includes a main signal communication path and a control communication path. Each of the computing machines and includes an RDMA communication unit that performs transmission of setting information for setting the main signal communication path to a computing machine of an access destination via the control communication path; and a main signal transmitting/receiving unit that establishes the main signal communication path based on the setting information. The RDMA communication unit gives an instruction for setting of the RDMA communication path in parallel with the transmission of the setting information. The computing machine further includes an RDMA control unit that secures a memory area for RDMA communication and transmits setting information including the memory area to the computing machine of the access destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: November 21, 2024Inventors: Tomoya HIBI, Junki ICHIKAWA, Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Kenji SHIMIZU, Hideki NISHIZAWA, Kiwami INOUE, Toru MANO
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Patent number: 12143273Abstract: It is an objective of the present disclosure to reduce computational complexity for obtaining a network topology configuration capable of efficiently accommodating a plurality of traffic demands assumed between nodes present in a network. A device of the present disclosure includes: a computation traffic generation unit that creates a traffic demand matrix whose elements are values individually obtained by demands between nodes present in a target network area from a plurality of traffic demand matrices created based on predicted traffic demands between the nodes; and a network topology generation unit that generates a network topology based on the traffic demand matrix generated by the computation traffic generation unit and port information of the nodes in the network area.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Anazawa, Toru Mano, Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kohei Mizuno
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Publication number: 20240357008Abstract: This communication system comprises a plurality of computers 1, 2 that each comprise: an optical transport path control unit 14 that adjusts the number of optical transport paths between the computer itself and a connection target computer and that sets the adjusted number of optical transport paths; a remote direct memory access (RDMA) communication unit 11 that, in accordance with the number of optical transport paths 4 announced from the optical transport path control unit 14, chunks data that is to be transferred to the connection target computer; and an RDMA control unit 16 that sets RDMA communication paths the number of which is the same as the number of the optical transport paths 4 pursuant to an instruction from the RDMA communication unit 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2021Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Toru MANO, Junki ICHIKAWA, Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Kenji SHIMIZU, Hideki NISHIZAWA, Tomoya HIBI, Kiwami INOUE
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Patent number: 12022247Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data communication system, a computing apparatus, a data communication method, and a program, which are capable of highly reliable data transfer with low latency between computing apparatuses. The present disclosure achieves a highly reliable communication path by directly connecting computing apparatuses via an optical path and transmitting data through the optical path. Further, the present disclosure uses the optical path to achieve RDAM over wavelength transmission in which existing RDMA-enabled protocol stacks such as InfiniBand and TCP/IP/Ether are eliminated. The present disclosure eliminates the protocol stacks, enabling transfer with lower latency than in a case of “simply performing RDMA transmission over the wavelength path”.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yukio Tsukishima, Toru Mano, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Mochida, Tomoya Hibi, Junki Ichikawa, Daisuke Shirai
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Publication number: 20240146806Abstract: An intermediate device 10A includes a transfer unit 11 that transfers a request including data to be transmitted from a local 30 to a remote 50, and a generation unit 12 that generates a pseudo-response to the request and returns the pseudo-response to the local 30. The intermediate device 10B includes a discard unit 13 that discards a response to the request from the remote 50. An intermediate device 20B includes a generation unit 22 that generates a pseudo-request based on an initial request for requesting data transmission from the local 30 to the remote 50 and transmits the pseudo-request to the remote 50, and a transfer unit 24 that transfers a response including data to be transmitted from the remote 50 to the local 30. The intermediate device 20A includes the discard unit 21 that discards a subsequent request from the local 30.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Junki ICHIKAWA, Hideki NISHIZAWA, Kenji SHIMIZU, Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Toru MANO, Tomoya HIBI, Kiwami INOUE
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Patent number: 11924097Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make it possible to measure an IP flow corresponding to time-varying, high-speed traffic. The present disclosure is a device that monitors traffic in a network, the device comprising a memory that records, for each flow in the network, metadata and flow information to be used in measurement, wherein a traffic state is forecasted using a packet flowing in the network; and a recording area for the metadata and the flow information in the memory is set based on the forecasted traffic state.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toru Mano, Yukio Tsukishima, Tomoya Hibi, Junki Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20240064077Abstract: The communication apparatus 1 includes: a processing device 20 that processes communication data to be transmitted to and received from a partner apparatus 2; a transmission unit 14 that transmits the communication data to the partner apparatus 2; an internal state measurement unit 11 that measures a state related to transmission of the communication data between the processing device 20 and the transmission unit 14; and a determination unit 13 that determines a communication mode in communication with the partner apparatus 2 from the state. The transmission unit 14 transmits the communication data to the partner apparatus 2 in the determined communication mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Toru MANO, Hideki Nishizawa, Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Tomoya HIBI, Junki ICHIKAWA, Kiwami INOUE
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Patent number: 11902154Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform automatic restoration from network failures even when complicated operations for executing a plurality of commands are required. The present disclosure relates to a network setting device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of network devices and performs a setting of the plurality of network devices. The network setting device performs a first step for determining whether a network including the plurality of network devices satisfies a predetermined operational policy.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Toru Mano, Kazuya Anazawa, Kohei Mizuno, Kengo Nakamura, Masaaki Nishino, Norihito Yasuda, Masakazu Ishihata
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Publication number: 20240048443Abstract: A connection optimization device that optimizes connections between a plurality of FXC switches for switching connections of optical fibers includes a optimization unit for receiving, as inputs, a number k of FXC switches, a number n of sending/receiving ports, and a connection probability matrix C of the sending/receiving ports and swapping rows and columns of the connection probability matrix C so as to maximize an expected value D in which a connection probability using a short path connecting between the sending/receiving ports connected in the same FXC switch becomes the largest, and a swapping port information output unit for outputting difference information between the connection probability matrix C and the optimization matrix C* in which the rows and the columns are swapped by the optimization unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Hideki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230412950Abstract: An orchestrator includes: a communication request reception unit that receives a communication requirement from a first computer; an optical transport NW design unit that determines an optical path to be used for communication based on the communication requirement and a state of an optical transport path of an optical transport network and calculates setting information to be set to an optical network device of each of a plurality of nodes to construct the optical path; a result output/transmission unit that transmits the setting information to the optical network device to each of the plurality of nodes; and an ACK transmission unit that transmits the setting completion notification to the first computer after receiving a setting completion response of the setting information from the plurality of nodes .Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Kazuya ANAZAWA, Toru MANO, Takeru INOUE, Hideki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230179516Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to render each module easily replaceable and facilitate construction of a system in which an existing application has been incorporated. The present disclosure provides a router device including: a routing module that performs a routing process on a packet; a functional module that executes any operation on the packet subjected to the routing process performed by the routing module; and a config module that sets a communication path that connects between the routing module and the functional module.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junki ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu TAKAHASHI, Toru MANO, Tomoya HIBI
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Publication number: 20230179519Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make it possible to measure an IP flow corresponding to time-varying, high-speed traffic. The present disclosure is a device that monitors traffic in a network, the device comprising a memory that records, for each flow in the network, metadata and flow information to be used in measurement, wherein a traffic state is forecasted using a packet flowing in the network; and a recording area for the metadata and the flow information in the memory is set based on the forecasted traffic state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Toru MANO, Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Tomoya HIBI, Junki ICHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230179894Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data communication system, a computing apparatus, a data communication method, and a program, which are capable of highly reliable data transfer with low latency between computing apparatuses. The present disclosure achieves a highly reliable communication path by directly connecting computing apparatuses via an optical path and transmitting data through the optical path. Further, the present disclosure uses the optical path to achieve RDAM over wavelength transmission in which existing RDMA-enabled protocol stacks such as InfiniBand and TCP/IP/Ether are eliminated. The present disclosure eliminates the protocol stacks, enabling transfer with lower latency than in a case of “simply performing RDMA transmission over the wavelength path”.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Toru MANO, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Yasuhiro MOCHIDA, Tomoya HIBI, Junki ICHIKAWA, Daisuke SHIRAI
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Publication number: 20230146378Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to reduce a packet inflow into the OF controller and suppress a load on the OF controller. The present disclosure provides a packet transfer device, in which: an OpenFlow switch extracts a first packet of a protocol determined in advance, and extracts a second packet in accordance with a rule determined in advance; a NameSpace, connected to the OpenFlow switch via a virtual interface, responds to the extracted first packet to act as proxy for the OpenFlow switch; and a virtual machine, connected to the OpenFlow switch via a virtual interface, processes the extracted second packet to act as proxy for the OpenFlow switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junki ICHIKAWA, Tomoya HIBI, Hirokazu TAKAHASHI, Toru MANO
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Publication number: 20230138720Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to search for a command sequence, while preventing overlooking as much as possible, in a shorter period of time than that of searching using only an actual system is used. The present disclosure provides an execution procedure searching device that searches for a command sequence to be set for a plurality of devices constituting a system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Kohei MIZUNO, Kengo NAKAMURA, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA, Masakazu ISHIHATA
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Publication number: 20230132633Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform automatic restoration from network failures even when complicated operations for executing a plurality of commands are required. The present disclosure relates to a network setting device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of network devices and performs a setting of the plurality of network devices. The network setting device performs a first step for determining whether a network including the plurality of network devices satisfies a predetermined operational policy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Kohei MIZUNO, Kengo NAKAMURA, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA, Masakazu ISHIHATA