Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Manabe

Toshihiro Manabe 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: 8917642
    Abstract: An application to be booted is selected and operation of the application is controlled according to status of a link between an access point and a station. A station (STA) which can be connected to an access point (AP) includes a link information obtaining procedure which obtains link information including an identifier of the AP to which the STA is connected while the STA is connected to the AP and an application control procedure which selects an application to be booted according to the link information by referring to an action profile in which an identifier of the link information and an application to be booted are related and registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Takefumi Hiraguri, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Patent number: 8630220
    Abstract: A probe request for an access point scan is transmitted over a specified radio channel according to an order of scanning, a connection candidate AP list including information indicating an access point which transmits a probe response and a received signal strength indication is generated when the probe response is received, the connection candidate AP list is referred to, one access point is selected from access points whose corresponding received signal strength indications exceed a predetermined threshold, connection processing is performed on the one access point being selected on the specified radio channel, and scanning is repeatedly performed by specifying a radio channel which is second in the order until scanning on all radio channels for which the order of scanning is set is completed when no probe response is received or the connection candidate AP list includes no received signal strength indication which exceeds the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Takefumi Hiraguri, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Patent number: 8619709
    Abstract: In an access point scan method by which a station disconnected from an access point scans for a next access point to which the station can be connected at a predetermined scan interval, the station sets a shorter scan interval when a possibility of connection to the next access point to which the station can be connected is presumed to be high or a need for connection is presumed to be great, and sets a longer scan interval when the possibility of connection is presumed to be low or the need for connection is presumed to be small, based on one of information on the access point to which the station being connected just before disconnection and information on the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Takefumi Hiraguri, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Patent number: 8284746
    Abstract: A wireless relay device connecting a wireless terminal to one of a plurality of access networks with different wireless interfaces and performing relay processing between the wireless terminal and one of the plurality of access networks being connected, the wireless relay device including a wireless interface on local side to be connected to the wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless interfaces on network side to be connected to the plurality of respective access networks, and a connection control section which boots the plurality of wireless interfaces on network side when the wireless interface on local side receives a signal from the wireless terminal, connects a wireless interface on network side establishing a fastest connection and the wireless interface on local side, and connects the wireless terminal to an access network corresponding to the wireless interface on network side establishing the fastest connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT Broadband Platform, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Makoto Umeuchi, Toshihiro Manabe, Hiroshi Hojo, Kengo Nagata, Tadao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110032857
    Abstract: An application to be booted is selected and operation of the application is controlled according to status of a link between an access point and a station. A station (STA) which can be connected to an access point (AP) includes a link information obtaining procedure which obtains link information including an identifier of the AP to which the STA is connected while the STA is connected to the AP and an application control procedure which selects an application to be booted according to the link information by referring to an action profile in which an identifier of the link information and an application to be booted are related and registered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Takefumi Hiraguri, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Publication number: 20100303051
    Abstract: A probe request for an access point scan is transmitted over a specified radio channel according to an order of scanning, a connection candidate AP list including information indicating an access point which transmits a probe response and a received signal strength indication is generated when the probe response is received, the connection candidate AP list is referred to, one access point is selected from access points whose corresponding received signal strength indications exceed a predetermined threshold, connection processing is performed on the one access point being selected on the specified radio channel, and scanning is repeatedly performed by specifying a radio channel which is second in the order until scanning on all radio channels for which the order of scanning is set is completed when no probe response is received or the connection candidate AP list includes no received signal strength indication which exceeds the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Takefumi Hiraguri, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Publication number: 20100265885
    Abstract: In an access point scan method by which a station disconnected from an access point scans for a next access point to which the station can be connected at a predetermined scan interval, the station sets a shorter scan interval when a possibility of connection to the next access point to which the station can be connected is presumed to be high or a need for connection is presumed to be great, and sets a longer scan interval when the possibility of connection is presumed to be low or the need for connection is presumed to be small, based on one of information on the access point to which the station being connected just before disconnection and information on the station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Takefumi Hiraguri, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Publication number: 20100172285
    Abstract: A wireless relay device connecting a wireless terminal to one of a plurality of access networks with different wireless interfaces and performing relay processing between the wireless terminal and one of the plurality of access networks being connected, the wireless relay device including a wireless interface on local side to be connected to the wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless interfaces on network side to be connected to the plurality of respective access networks, and a connection control section which boots the plurality of wireless interfaces on network side when the wireless interface on local side receives a signal from the wireless terminal, connects a wireless interface on network side establishing a fastest connection and the wireless interface on local side, and connects the wireless terminal to an access network corresponding to the wireless interface on network side establishing the fastest connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT BROADFORM PLATFORM, INC.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Makoto Umeuchi, Toshihiro Manabe, Hiroshi Hojo, Kengo Nagata, Tadao Kobayashi