Patents by Inventor Yasutaka Nishimura

Yasutaka Nishimura 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: 20150178223
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage managing unit configured to manage a storage device by dividing the storage device into a plurality of physical storage regions corresponding to respective modes used by the information processing apparatus, and a storage processing unit configured to cause data generated by the information processing apparatus during operation in a mode to be stored in a physical storage region corresponding to the mode. For example, the storage managing unit stores a policy in the storage device. The policy defines whether to permit the use of data between a plurality of security attributes corresponding to the respective physical storage regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nishimura, Masami Tada, Takahito Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20140304783
    Abstract: A monitoring system, monitoring server, method, and program that, when an unauthorized access point is installed, effectively block wireless communications performed by the unauthorized access point, a monitoring system including a monitoring server for monitoring an unauthorized access point and multiple terminals connected to the monitoring server via a network is provided. The terminals acquire radio wave information from radio waves transmitted by an access point, and transmit the radio wave information to the monitoring server. The monitoring server detects an unauthorized access point using terminal information including the radio wave information received from the terminals, designates a terminal as a pseudo-access point using intensity of radio waves transmitted by the unauthorized access point, and instructs the terminal to transmit radio waves. The terminal transmits radio waves in accordance with the instruction from the monitoring server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yayoi Fujiwara, Shinkichi Hamada, Yukihiro Murakami, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8805409
    Abstract: Provided are a computer readable recording media, system, and method for using wired endpoints to determine position information for wireless endpoints in a network. Identification information from a detected wired endpoint connected to the network is received and a command is issued to the detected wired endpoint to cause the detected wired endpoint to transmit signals identifying the wired endpoint. Information is received from a communicating wireless endpoint, comprising one of the wireless endpoints, using wireless communication, including wireless endpoint identification information and information identifying at least one of the wired endpoints transmitting signals received at the wireless endpoint. Position information is determined for the wired endpoint indicated in the information received from the communicating wireless endpoint. Information on the communicating wireless endpoint is updated to associate with the determined position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Shinkichi Hamada, Makoto Kogoh, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8806642
    Abstract: A resource protection program, apparatus, and method for protecting resources to be processed on a computer. The resource protection program causes a computer to implement: a preparatory function as a function for preparing multiple defined state transition histories and multiple defined actions, both of which are associated with each other, wherein each of the defined state transition histories defines a state transition history of the computer upon execution of predetermined access to a predetermined resource, and each of the defined actions defined to be executable when a transition is made from a defined state to the next defined state; and an action execution function for selecting, upon execution of the real access to the real resource, a defined action associated with a marched defined state transition history from among one or more defined actions to execute die defined action selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Aratsu, Sanehiro Furuichi, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140195677
    Abstract: Event data pattern identification, storage, and sharing in a peer-to-peer network is disclosed. This includes peer-to-peer devices that store data events, review previously stored data events and identify patterns between the stored events and newly received events. Improvements can serve to reduce duplicative traffic and enhance network performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Patent number: 8707335
    Abstract: There is provided a system having a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of which includes a storage device where at least one piece of pattern data indicating an occurrence pattern of events to be detected in the information processing apparatus is stored, a generation section that specifies a collection of events to be detected in the occurrence pattern based on the pattern data read from the storage device and generates necessary event data indicating the specified collection of events, a selection section that selects an event included in the necessary event data from events which have occurred in the information processing apparatus and events transferred from another information processing apparatus, and a detection section that detects if the selected event matches with the occurrence pattern indicated by the pattern data, and outputs a detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20130324165
    Abstract: To provide a system capable of estimating a location of an information communication terminal and to provide an information communication terminal used for the system, a system includes multiple information communication terminals and a management server. Each information communication terminal has an agent program installed thereon. When the information communication terminal is connected to the wired LAN, an terminal information sending unit sends terminal identification information to cause the management server to generate location information. Upon receiving a mode change instruction, a communication mode changing unit changes a mode to cause the information communication terminal to function as a pseudo access point. When the information communication terminal is not connected to the wired LAN, a radio wave intensity measuring unit measures an intensity of the carrier wave from the PAP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yayoi Fujiwara, Hirofumi Isobe, Makoto Kogoh, Yukihiro Murakami, Yasutaka Nishimura, Takahito Tashiro
  • Patent number: 8516499
    Abstract: Assistance in performing an action for a detected event for a monitoring target resource whose connection is not an always-on connection to perform an appropriate action as soon as possible in response to occurrence of a failure. The assistance device stores, in association with an occurrence pattern of an event, information related to plural tasks for determining whether a predetermined condition is fulfilled, and an action to be performed by a corresponding device. Then, the assistance device calculates an index value for determining the level of probability of the occurrence pattern of the event, determines whether the calculated index value is larger than a predetermined value, and sends, to a device to perform the action, the occurrence pattern of the event the index value of which is determined to be larger than the predetermined value, and information related to the plural tasks and the action corresponding to the occurrence pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20120297445
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program of managing an access right to at least one asset associated with at least one digital work order, or to at least one element associated with the asset, and provides a system and a computer program for the same. The method includes the steps of: loading a security policy associated with the work order, the asset, or the element; starting to monitor location information of the asset or the element and a moving object, or a elapsed time of the moving object at the location; and issuing an event for managing the asset, the element or the moving object in response to the start of the work order or in response to the fact that the loaded security policy is violated by any of the locations, a change in the location, or the elapsed time at the location obtained by the monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nishimura, Takashi Ogura, Akira Ohkado, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20120296685
    Abstract: A method of managing an access right to at least one asset associated with at least one digital work order, to at least one first element associated with the at least one asset, or to at least one second element associated with an access path to the at least one asset or the first element, and relates to a system and a computer program for the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nishimura, Akira Ohkado, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20120167198
    Abstract: A resource protection program, apparatus, and method for protecting resources to be processed on a computer. The resource protection program causes a computer to implement: a preparatory function as a function for preparing multiple defined state transition histories and multiple defined actions, both of which are associated with each other, wherein each of the defined state transition histories defines a state transition history of the computer upon execution of predetermined access to a predetermined resource, and each of the defined actions defined to be executable when a transition is made from a defined state to the next defined state; and an action execution function for selecting, upon execution of the real access to the real resource, a defined action associated with a marched defined state transition history from among one or more defined actions to execute die defined action selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nishimura, Taku Aratsu, Sanehiro Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20120095797
    Abstract: A method of managing an access right to at least one asset associated with at least one digital work order, to at least one first element associated with the at least one asset, or to at least one second element associated with an access path to the at least one asset or the first element, and relates to a system and a computer program for the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nishimura, Akira Ohkado, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20120095926
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program of managing an access right to at least one asset associated with at least one digital work order, or to at least one element associated with the asset, and provides a system and a computer program for the same. The method includes the steps of: loading a security policy associated with the work order, the asset, or the element; starting to monitor location information of the asset or the element and a moving object, or a elapsed time of the moving object at the location; and issuing an event for managing the asset, the element or the moving object in response to the start of the work order or in response to the fact that the loaded security policy is violated by any of the locations, a change in the location, or the elapsed time at the location obtained by the monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nishimura, Takashi Ogura, Akira Ohkado, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Patent number: 7992053
    Abstract: A system has a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each comprising: a storage device that stores, for each occurrence pattern of events to be detected, a plurality of tasks for respectively determining whether a plurality of conditions are fulfilled; a process determination section that, in response to occurrence of an event, reads the plurality of tasks corresponding to the occurrence pattern including the event from the storage device, and determines which information processing apparatus is assigned to process each read task; a process execution section that processes a task assigned to be processed by the information processing apparatus, and instructs another information processing apparatus to process another task assigned to be processed by the other information processing apparatus; and a detection section that determines that the event has occurred if process results of the processed task and the instructed task fulfill the plurality of conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20100235828
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer programs for creating a cloning image using a pseudo environment in a virtual machine. The pseudo environment is configured based on an inventory of the assets of a reference machine. The cloning image can be deployed to one or more target machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nishimura, Takahito Tashiro, Jiroh Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7788534
    Abstract: A stale of a managed client device in a distributed autonomic computing environment is attached to an event occurring on the managed client device. The event is sent, with the attached state of the managed client device, to a server. The state of the managed client device is saved at the server. The event is analyzed for identifying a problem at the client device. An action for solving the problem is generated based on a state of the managed client device at the time the event is analyzed. An execution condition is dynamically generated based on the saved state of the managed client device. The execution condition is added to the action to be executed and sent to the managed client device. At the managed client device, a determination is made whether to execute the action based on the execution condition and a current state of the managed client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20100131952
    Abstract: Assistance in performing an action for a detected event for a monitoring target resource whose connection is not an always-on connection to perform an appropriate action as soon as possible in response to occurrence of a failure. The assistance device stores, in association with an occurrence pattern of an event, information related to plural tasks for determining whether a predetermined condition is fulfilled, and an action to be performed by a corresponding device. Then, the assistance device calculates an index value for determining the level of probability of the occurrence pattern of the event, determines whether the calculated index value is larger than a predetermined value, and sends, to a device to perform the action, the occurrence pattern of the event the index value of which is determined to be larger than the predetermined value, and information related to the plural tasks and the action corresponding to the occurrence pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20090150716
    Abstract: A stale of a managed client device in a distributed autonomic computing environment is attached to an event occurring on the managed client device. The event is sent, with the attached state of the managed client device, to a server. The state of the managed client device is saved at the server. The event is analyzed for identifying a problem at the client device. An action for solving the problem is generated based on a state of the managed client device at the time the event is analyzed. An execution condition is dynamically generated based on the saved state of the managed client device. The execution condition is added to the action to be executed and sent to the managed client device. At the managed client device, a determination is made whether to execute the action based on the execution condition and a current state of the managed client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20080320495
    Abstract: There is provided a system having a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of which includes a storage device where at least one piece of pattern data indicating an occurrence pattern of events to be detected in the information processing apparatus is stored, a generation section that specifies a collection of events to be detected in the occurrence pattern based on the pattern data read from the storage device and generates necessary event data indicating the specified collection of events, a selection section that selects an event included in the necessary event data from events which have occurred in the information processing apparatus and events transferred from another information processing apparatus, and a detection section that detects if the selected event matches with the occurrence pattern indicated by the pattern data, and outputs a detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Tadashi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20080320326
    Abstract: There is provided a system having a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of which comprises a storage device that stores, for each occurrence pattern of events to be detected, a plurality of tasks for respectively determining whether a plurality of conditions are fulfilled; a process determination section that, in response to occurrence of an event, reads a plurality of tasks corresponding to the occurrence pattern including the event from the storage device, and determines which information processing apparatus is caused to process each of the read tasks; a process execution section that processes a task determined to be processed by that information processing apparatus, and instructs another information processing apparatus to process a task determined to be processed by the other information processing apparatus; and a detection section that determines that the event has occurred in the predetermined occurrence pattern under a condition that process results of the processed task and the t
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Yasutaka Nishimura, Tadashi Tsumura