Patents by Inventor Toshi Ogawa

Toshi Ogawa 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: 6594227
    Abstract: In order to make it unnecessary for a user application program to be aware of any redundant configuration even if such a configuration is applied when communication stations, which communicate with each other according to the TCP/IP protocols over the Ethernet, a communication control system is provided wherein a redundancy control device converts a receiver MAC address included in a transmission request into an MAC address of a network adapter to communicate with, when the redundancy control device receives a transmission request from a communication control device, and converts a sender MAC address included in a received frame into the MAC address, which the communication control device of the location communication station is aware of, when the redundancy control device receives the frame from a network adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshi Ogawa, Chuuji Akiyama