Patents by Inventor Toshihisa Nakano

Toshihisa Nakano 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: 11962480
    Abstract: An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Motoji Ohmori, Natsume Matsuzaki, Yuichi Futa, Toshihisa Nakano, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Unagami, Hiroshi Amano, Kotaro Hakoda
  • Publication number: 20240053977
    Abstract: A gateway device is connected to a plurality of electronic controllers on-board a vehicle. The gateway device acquires firmware update information, which includes at least a part of updated firmware to be applied to a first electronic controller, patch data, and information indicating where to apply the patch data. When the gateway device determines that the first electronic controller does not include a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation, the gateway device executes a proxy process. In this regard, the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, merges the patch data and existing firmware to create updated boot ROM data with updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM data and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Jun ANZAI, Toshihisa NAKANO, Tomoyuki HAGA, Manabu MAEDA, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240031199
    Abstract: In an anomaly determination method for determining an anomaly in a received message, a plurality of messages which include messages that are periodic and each of which includes a first field having a fixed value and a second field having a variable value are each received as the received message, and one of a plurality of combinations to be used for determination each of which includes at least one of a plurality of anomaly determinations including an anomaly determination utilizing a reception timing based on the periodicity or the number of received messages, an anomaly determination utilizing the first field, and an anomaly determination utilizing the second field, is selected according to one or more criteria among available execution time of the anomaly determination method, a load amount, a data amount, and the number of messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Manabu MAEDA, Toshihisa NAKANO, Yoshiharu IMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230401083
    Abstract: An ECU (Electronic Control Unit) includes a HV (HyperVisor), and a first VM (Virtual Machine) and a second VM that operate on the HV. The first VM detects an abnormality in a process in the first VM. When the first VM detects an abnormality, the first VM notifies the second VM of information related to the abnormality via the HV. The second VM executes a process responsive to the abnormality, based on the information related to the abnormality provided from the first VM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu IMAMOTO, Jun ANZAI, Toshihisa NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11842185
    Abstract: A gateway device is connected via network(s) to electronic controllers on-board a vehicle, where at least one of the electronic controllers is implemented in a virtual machine. The gateway device includes one or more memories, and circuitry that acquires firmware update information. The circuitry determines whether a first electronic controller satisfies a second condition based on second information, which is whether the first electronic controller includes a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation. The circuitry also causes, when the second condition is not satisfied, the gateway device to execute a proxy process, where the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, creates updated boot ROM data with the updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Jun Anzai, Toshihisa Nakano, Tomoyuki Haga, Manabu Maeda, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11843477
    Abstract: In an anomaly determination method for determining an anomaly in a received message, a plurality of messages which include messages that are periodic and each of which includes a first field having a fixed value and a second field having a variable value are each received as the received message, and one of a plurality of combinations to be used for determination each of which includes at least one of a plurality of anomaly determinations including an anomaly determination utilizing a reception timing based on the periodicity or the number of received messages, an anomaly determination utilizing the first field, and an anomaly determination utilizing the second field, is selected according to one or more criteria among available execution time of the anomaly determination method, a load amount, a data amount, and the number of messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Toshihisa Nakano, Yoshiharu Imamoto
  • Patent number: 11841942
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device is a device for detecting an anomaly in a mobile body and includes: a type determiner that determines a type of an anomaly detected; a type change determiner that determines whether or not a change has occurred between a type of an anomaly detected last time and a type of an anomaly detected this time; and an anomaly detection log transmitter that transmits an anomaly detection log related to the anomaly detected this time when the change has occurred, and does not transmit the anomaly detection log related to the anomaly detected this time when the change has not occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Yokota, Takayuki Fujii, Toshihisa Nakano
  • Publication number: 20230394149
    Abstract: The monitoring system is a system that monitors a virtualization system, the system including: a VM monitor and a request monitor each of which has a different authority, monitors the virtualization system, and detects an anomaly; and a determiner that determines a state of the virtualization system based on monitoring results from the VM monitor and the request monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kento TAMURA, Jun ANZAI, Toshihisa NAKANO, Yoshiharu IMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230376575
    Abstract: An integrated ECU is a vehicle control system provided in a vehicle, and includes: an application executor that executes an application program; an environment state determiner that determines whether the application executor is anomalous; a first resource provider that provides a resource to be used for controlling the vehicle; and a first access controller that, upon acceptance of a request for the resource from the application program, (a) prohibits provision of the resource from the resource provider to the application program, when the environment state determiner determines that the application executor is anomalous, and (b) permits the provision of the resource from the resource provider to the application program, when the environment state determiner determines that the application executor is not anomalous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun ANZAI, Toshihisa NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230376588
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a detector that detects an attack on an application; a vehicle state verifier that verifies a state of a vehicle when the detector detects the attack; an influence verifier that verifies, based on a verification result of the vehicle state verifier, an influence on the vehicle assuming operation of the application subjected to the attack is stopped; a determiner that determines, based on a verification result of the influence verifier, at least one of a response method for responding to the attack or a recovery method for recovering the application subjected to the attack; and a controller that executes at least one of the response method or the recovery method determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun ANZAI, Toshihisa NAKANO, Kento TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230318944
    Abstract: A server apparatus receives a device ID indicating one electrical home appliance among one or more electrical home appliances and a gateway ID indicating that the one electrical home appliance belongs to a same owner, a same group, or a same home as the one or more electrical home appliances, determines whether or not the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, using a management database that manages device IDs indicating the one or more electrical home appliances and the gateway ID, and when it is determined made that the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, provides an information device, which is associated with the gateway ID and which differs from the one electrical home appliance, with notification information for confirming whether or not it is to be permitted to collect the log information from the one electrical home appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihisa NAKANO, Motoji OHMORI, Tomoyuki HIROTA
  • Patent number: 11765191
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an obtainer that obtains, from an anomaly detection sensor that detects an anomaly in a network, a detection log related to the anomaly in the network and the detection time of the anomaly indicated in the detection log; an occurrence time determiner that determines the occurrence time of an attack on the network based on the obtained detection time, and records the determined occurrence time; and an end time determiner that determines the expected end time of the attack on the network based on the obtained detection log, and records the determined expected end time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kou Ishii, Kaoru Yokota, Yuishi Torisaki, Toshihisa Nakano, Jun Anzai
  • Publication number: 20230262080
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an obtainer that obtains, from an anomaly detection sensor that detects an anomaly in a network, a detection log related to the anomaly in the network and the detection time of the anomaly indicated in the detection log; an occurrence time determiner that determines the occurrence time of an attack on the network based on the obtained detection time, and records the determined occurrence time; and an end time determiner that determines the expected end time of the attack on the network based on the obtained detection log, and records the determined expected end time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kou ISHII, Kaoru YOKOTA, Yuishi TORISAKI, Toshihisa NAKANO, Jun ANZAI
  • Publication number: 20230262505
    Abstract: A management device includes: an obtainer that obtains, from a processing device, a log of operation performed by the processing device and verification data for certifying that the log is valid information; a verifier that performs verification of whether the log is valid information, based on the verification data obtained by the obtainer; and a controller that performs storage control for storing the log as an analysis log for analyzing an anomaly into a storage device, in accordance with a result of the verification performed by the verifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihisa NAKANO, Yuishi TORISAKI, Jun ANZAI
  • Publication number: 20230247037
    Abstract: A log management module includes: an anomaly detection information receiver that receives anomaly detection information; a detection history information storage that stores detection history information; an attack route information storage that stores attack route information indicating a candidate for an attack route in the CAN bus; an attack route estimator that estimates an attack route including the specific device, based on the attack route information; and a collection target determiner that, upon receipt of the anomaly detection information by the anomaly detection information receiver, determines, as collection targets whose log information for analysis which is for analyzing presence or absence of an undetected anomaly in the CAN bus is to be collected, one or more candidate devices which have been narrowed down from the devices, are present on the attack route estimated by the attack route estimator, and have no history of anomaly detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuishi TORISAKI, Takayoshi ITO, Kaoru YOKOTA, Akihito TAKEUCHI, Toshihisa NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11711277
    Abstract: A server apparatus receives a device ID indicating one electrical home appliance among one or more electrical home appliances and a gateway ID indicating that the one electrical home appliance belongs to a same owner, a same group, or a same home as the one or more electrical home appliances, determines whether or not the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, using a management database that manages device IDs indicating the one or more electrical home appliances and the gateway ID, and when it is determined made that the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, provides an information device, which is associated with the gateway ID and which differs from the one electrical home appliance, with notification information for confirming whether or not it is to be permitted to collect the log information from the one electrical home appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nakano, Motoji Ohmori, Tomoyuki Hirota
  • Publication number: 20230229762
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device is a device for detecting an anomaly in a mobile body and includes: a type determiner that determines a type of an anomaly detected; a type change determiner that determines whether or not a change has occurred between a type of an anomaly detected last time and a type of an anomaly detected this time; and an anomaly detection log transmitter that transmits an anomaly detection log related to the anomaly detected this time when the change has occurred, and does not transmit the anomaly detection log related to the anomaly detected this time when the change has not occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru YOKOTA, Takayuki FUJII, Toshihisa NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230214858
    Abstract: Provided is a server device (101) including: a transmitting/receiving section (201) for receiving, from a household electric appliance (102), an identifier for identifying the household electric appliance (102) and an operation status of the household electric appliance (102); an updating section (207) for estimating a consumption status of a consumer good using the received operation status so as to update the consumption status of the consumer good stored in a utilization information accumulating section (205) based on the estimated consumption status of the consumer good; and a determination section (206) for deciding whether or not to transmit a confirmation message for confirming the consumer good being used with the household electric appliance, based on the updated consumption status of the consumer good.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihisa NAKANO, Masayuki KOZUKA, Motoji OHMORI, Takako HIROSE, Tsuyoshi SAKATA, Yoshiyuki MIYABE, Kazuo OKAMURA, Masayoshi TOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230216759
    Abstract: An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Motoji OHMORI, Natsume MATSUZAKI, Yuichi FUTA, Toshihisa NAKANO, Manabu MAEDA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Hiroshi AMANO, Kotaro HAKODA
  • Publication number: 20230153099
    Abstract: A gateway device is connected via network(s) to electronic controllers on-board a vehicle, where at least one of the electronic controllers is implemented in a virtual machine. The gateway device includes one or more memories, and circuitry that acquires firmware update information. The circuitry determines whether a first electronic controller satisfies a second condition based on second information, which is whether the first electronic controller includes a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation. The circuitry also causes, when the second condition is not satisfied, the gateway device to execute a proxy process, where the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, creates updated boot ROM data with the updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Jun ANZAI, Toshihisa NAKANO, Tomoyuki HAGA, Manabu MAEDA, Takeshi KISHIKAWA