Patents by Inventor Toshiharu Takemura

Toshiharu Takemura 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: 20210050997
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system that are able to reduce a processing time for reading while ensuring security regarding data reading. The information processing apparatus includes a processing unit that, in a case where a reading request including a data reading command and information indicating a region of a recording medium from which data is read is acquired, encrypts data corresponding to the region indicated by the reading request by using an encryption key corresponding to the region indicated by the reading request and transmits the encrypted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu NAKATSURU, Katsuya SHIMOJI, Toshiharu TAKEMURA, Yuhu WANG
  • Patent number: 8832441
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a near-field communication device capable of performing near-field wireless communication with an external device, and a controller configured to instruct the external device or the near-field communication device to execute a command. The near-field communication device has a storage unit, a first mutual authentication unit for authenticating the controller and for requesting the controller to authenticate the near-field communication device, a first communication key setting unit for setting a first communication key, a second mutual authentication unit for authenticating the external device and for requesting the external device to authenticate the near-field communication device, and a second communication key setting unit for setting a second communication key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Taro Kurita, Toshiharu Takemura
  • Patent number: 8782749
    Abstract: An IC card compatible with a DES scheme and an AES scheme having a security strength different from that of the DES scheme, includes an inhibition information receiving section for receiving inhibition information for inhibiting predetermined manipulation from being performed in a storage region of the IC card using the DES scheme from an issuing device using the AES scheme, an inhibition flag setting section for performing inhibition processing for inhibiting the predetermined manipulation by the inhibition information, a manipulation request receiving section for receiving a manipulation request from a service providing device or the issuing device, and a manipulation executing section for executing the requested manipulation if the requested manipulation does not correspond to the predetermined manipulation inhibited by the inhibition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Hiroaki Hamada, Katsuya Shimoji, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Daisuke Shiigi, Yasumasa Nakatsugawa, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 8756384
    Abstract: An information processing device and information processing method including a management table that includes three pages. A pair of first and second pages is alternately used as a valid page and an invalid page to secure the data. The valid page is copied to a third page. Even when the power is shut off in the process of updating the page, at the next start time, the status of the data writing operation when the power is shut off is determined based on the validity and stability of the pages. Therefore, the data is restored without any corruption of valid page by using a proper restoring method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Kurita, Toshiharu Takemura
  • Patent number: 8704636
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage block configured to store a first region as part of a layer structure; an execution block which, in response to a designation command transmitted by a communication apparatus to designate the creation of a second region as a lower layer of the first region, performs a region creation process for creating the second region as the lower layer of the first region; and a transmission block which, if the region creation process is stopped, then transmits first information indicating whether or not the second region is already created to the communication apparatus, in response to a request from the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Tadashi Morita, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8700872
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system having a reader/writer and an information processing apparatus. The reader/writer include a processing section for executing service processing, a processing completion determining section for determining completion of the processing, a control information generating section for generating control information, depending on the determination result and a control information transmitting section for transmitting the control information, and the information processing apparatus includes an internal memory having an access control area, an in-chip communication section for receiving the control information, an internal memory managing section for storing the received control information in the internal memory, a control information obtaining section for obtaining the control information from the internal memory and an access control managing section for setting the access control for the access control area based on the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiharu Takemura
  • Patent number: 8477334
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device for use in a data communication apparatus includes setting means for setting, for each of a plurality of files that the semiconductor integrated circuit device manages, a flag indicating whether definition information functioning as information on each of the plurality of files is browsable or not browsable; and response sending means for sending, when provision of the definition information on a file is externally requested, a response falsely indicating that the semiconductor integrated circuit device is not managing the file existing in the plurality of files according to the flag set for the file indicating that the definition information on the file is not browsable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsugi Iwahashi, Tatsuhiko Kanno, Taro Kurita, Toshiharu Takemura
  • Patent number: 8291085
    Abstract: A value information transfer system transfers value information held by a transfer source communication device, which is connected via a network to a transfer management server, to a transfer destination communication device. The transfer source communication device includes a transfer request acceptor for accepting a transfer request for transfer of the value information held by the transfer source communication device to the transfer destination communication device, a transfer request information transmitter for transmitting the request as transfer request information to the transfer management server, and a command executor for executing a command generated by the transfer management server. The transfer management server includes a command generator for generating at least one command and a command transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Shiigi, Taro Kurita, Toshiharu Takemura, Toyokazu Ota, Yasumasa Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 8259946
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a non-contact communication unit for performing a non-contact communication with a reader/writer; a storage unit for storing data for every logic system corresponding to at least one encryption method, and retransmission interval information of each communication command transmitted from the reader/writer for every encryption method; and a selection unit for selecting the retransmission interval information of each communication command in the encryption method to which the logic system specified by the reader/writer corresponds from the storage unit. The retransmission interval information selected by the selection unit is transmitted from the non-contact communication unit to the reader/writer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiharu Takemura
  • Patent number: 8117448
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage section that stores, for a management entity for which a memory area is to be formed, an authentication key and an encryption key. The information processing apparatus also includes a communication section that transmits an identifier of the authentication key, an identifier of the encryption key, and an area 0 key. The communication section receives, upon an authentication based on the authentication key and the area 0 key, data encrypted by the encryption key. The data indicates a size of the memory area. The area 0 key is stored in an area 0. The information processing apparatus further includes a forming section that forms the memory area starting from the area 0, based on the size of the memory area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Taro Kurita
  • Publication number: 20110252458
    Abstract: An IC card compatible with a DES scheme and an AES scheme having a security strength different from that of the DES scheme, includes an inhibition information receiving section for receiving inhibition information for inhibiting predetermined manipulation from being performed in a storage region of the IC card using the DES scheme from an issuing device using the AES scheme, an inhibition flag setting section for performing inhibition processing for inhibiting the predetermined manipulation by the inhibition information, a manipulation request receiving section for receiving a manipulation request from a service providing device or the issuing device, and a manipulation executing section for executing the requested manipulation if the requested manipulation does not correspond to the predetermined manipulation inhibited by the inhibition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Hiroaki Hamada, Katsuya Shimoji, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Daisuke Shiigi, Yasumasa Nakatsugawa, Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20110090044
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage block configured to store a first region as part of a layer structure; an execution block which, in response to a designation command transmitted by a communication apparatus to designate the creation of a second region as a lower layer of the first region, performs a region creation process for creating the second region as the lower layer of the first region; and a transmission block which, if the region creation process is stopped, then transmits first information indicating whether or not the second region is already created to the communication apparatus, in response to a request from the communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Tadashi Morita, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100325713
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a near-field communication device capable of performing near-field wireless communication with an external device, and a controller configured to instruct the external device or the near-field communication device to execute a command. The near-field communication device has a storage unit, a first mutual authentication unit for authenticating the controller and for requesting the controller to authenticate the near-field communication device, a first communication key setting unit for setting a first communication key, a second mutual authentication unit for authenticating the external device and for requesting the external device to authenticate the near-field communication device, and a second communication key setting unit for setting a second communication key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Taro Kurita, Toshiharu Takemura
  • Patent number: 7802072
    Abstract: A data storage device comprises a memory that includes a plurality of physically partitioned memory areas with a rewrite buffer area to be used for data rewrite set within each of the partitioned memory areas and a memory management unit that updates data recorded in each partitioned memory area by utilizing the corresponding rewrite buffer area is set within the partitioned memory area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Felica Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiharu Takemura
  • Patent number: 7797537
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a near-field communication device capable of performing near-field wireless communication with an external device, and a controller configured to instruct the external device or the near-field communication device to execute a command. The near-field communication device has a storage unit, a first mutual authentication unit for authenticating the controller and for requesting the controller to authenticate the near-field communication device, a first communication key setting unit for setting a first communication key, a second mutual authentication unit for authenticating the external device and for requesting the external device to authenticate the near-field communication device, and a second communication key setting unit for setting a second communication key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Kurita, Toshiharu Takemura
  • Publication number: 20100034387
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a non-contact communication unit for performing a non-contact communication with a reader/writer; a storage unit for storing data for every logic system corresponding to at least one encryption method, and retransmission interval information of each communication command transmitted from the reader/writer for every encryption method; and a selection unit for selecting the retransmission interval information of each communication command in the encryption method to which the logic system specified by the reader/writer corresponds from the storage unit. The retransmission interval information selected by the selection unit is transmitted from the non-contact communication unit to the reader/writer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiharu Takemura
  • Publication number: 20090307491
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a data storage portion that can store user data used in a particular non-contact communication service and management information to manage the user data in different storage areas corresponding to different encryption methods and that has a first storage area storing management information corresponding to a first encryption method; an issuing information receiver that receives issuing information encrypted with the first encryption method from an issuing device delivering the issuing information to issue management information corresponding to a second encryption method; an issuing information decryption portion that decrypts the received issuing information with the first encryption method, based on the management information corresponding to the first encryption method stored in the first storage area; and a management information issuing portion that, based on the decrypted issuing information, issues the management information corresponding to the second encryp
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasumasa Nakatsugawa, Taro Kurita, Hiroaki Hamada, Tadashi Morita, Toshiharu Takemura, Yinglin Zhu, Miki Chiba, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshinori Kanemoto, Toshimitsu Higashikawa
  • Publication number: 20090106582
    Abstract: An information processing device and information processing method including a management table that includes three pages. A pair of first and second pages is alternately used as a valid page and an invalid page to secure the data. The valid page is copied to a third page. Even when the power is shut off in the process of updating the page, at the next start time, the status of the data writing operation when the power is shut off is determined based on the validity and stability of the pages. Therefore, the data is restored without any corruption of valid page by using a proper restoring method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taro Kurita, Toshiharu Takemura
  • Patent number: 7478270
    Abstract: An information processing device and information processing method including a management table that includes three pages. A pair of first and second pages is alternately used as a valid page and an invalid page to secure the data. The valid page is copied to a third page. Even when the power is shut off in the process of updating the page, at the next start time, the status of the data writing operation when the power is shut off is determined based on the validity and stability of the pages. Therefore, the data is restored without any corruption of valid page by using a proper restoring method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Kurita, Toshiharu Takemura
  • Publication number: 20090006783
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system having a reader/writer and an information processing apparatus. The reader/writer include a processing section for executing service processing, a processing completion determining section for determining completion of the processing, a control information generating section for generating control information, depending on the determination result and a control information transmitting section for transmitting the control information, and the information processing apparatus includes an internal memory having an access control area, an in-chip communication section for receiving the control information, an internal memory managing section for storing the received control information in the internal memory, a control information obtaining section for obtaining the control information from the internal memory and an access control managing section for setting the access control for the access control area based on the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventor: Toshiharu TAKEMURA