Patents by Inventor Yoichi FUKADA

Yoichi FUKADA 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: 11924740
    Abstract: A signal forwarding system includes: a plurality of signal forwarding devices forming a plurality of communication routes between a slave station and a master station; and a route control device that determines a communication route, wherein the route control device includes at least: a communication route calculation unit that calculates a communication route in response to a route switching request; and a forward destination setting instruction unit that outputs forward destination setting information based on the communication route, the signal forwarding devices include at least: a forward destination setting instruction acquisition unit that acquires the forward destination setting information; a forward destination set unit that changes a forward destination based on the forward destination setting information; and a forward unit that outputs input traffic based on the forward destination, and any of the route control device and the signal forwarding devices includes: a traffic monitor unit; a non-signa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka Shibata, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Hirotaka Ujikawa, Yoichi Fukada, Jun Terada
  • Publication number: 20240063916
    Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a distribution unit configured to distribute a modulation signal to a plurality of amplification units connected in parallel; a plurality of phase modulators which are connected in cascade to generate a phase-modulated optical signal in accordance with each modulation signal of which voltage is amplified by the plurality of amplification units connected in parallel by using a laser beam based on a first oscillation frequency; a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex a laser beam based on a second oscillation frequency and the optical signal; and a detection unit configured to generate a frequency modulation signal by executing detection processing on a result of multiplexing the laser beam based on the second oscillation frequency and the optical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki SHITABA, Akihiro TANABE, Yoichi FUKADA, Ryo MIYATAKE
  • Publication number: 20240056193
    Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: an FM batch conversion unit that performs FM batch conversion on a carrier signal input from the outside, to generate an FM batch conversion signal; a signal branching unit that causes the FM batch conversion signal to branch into a first path and a second path; an optical transmission unit that is provided in the first path, converts the FM batch conversion signal into an optical signal, and transmits the optical signal to the outside; and a detection unit that is provided in the second path, and detects quality degradation of the FM batch conversion signal on the basis of the signal level of the FM batch conversion signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro TANABE, Toshiaki SHITABA, Yoichi FUKADA, Ryo MIYATAKE, Tomoaki YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11825395
    Abstract: A path control method of controlling a communication path in a network including a plurality of wireless devices communicating with a terminal in a wireless manner and a plurality of wireless control devices communicating with any one of the plurality of wireless devices through a plurality of signal transfer devices includes searching for available communication paths and listing the available communication paths for individual combinations of a wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices and a wireless control device of the plurality of wireless control devices, and selecting a combination of communication paths in which a maximum value of the number of communications passing through the same output port of a signal transfer device of the plurality of signal transfer devices is minimized from among the listed available communication paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka Shibata, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Yoichi Fukada, Jun Terada
  • Publication number: 20230370167
    Abstract: A signal converting apparatus includes a conversion unit, a measurement unit, and a control unit. The conversion unit performs FM batch conversion on an input signal containing a plurality of carrier signals, to generate an FM signal. The measurement unit measures the carrier levels of the plurality of carrier signals contained in the input signal, and the maximum frequency of the input signal. The control unit calculates the frequency deviation amount of the entire input signal, on the basis of the measured carrier levels of the respective carrier signals. Using the calculated frequency deviation amount and the measured maximum frequency, the control unit calculates a center frequency for the FM signal, and controls the conversion unit so that the center frequency of the FM signal to be generated by the FM batch conversion becomes equal to the calculated center frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro TANABE, Toshiaki SHITABA, Yoichi FUKADA, Tomoaki YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230344525
    Abstract: A light receiving portion of a photodiode is connected to an external light source via an optical transmission line. A power storage unit stores electrical energy generated by the photodiode. A bias circuit takes out electrical energy corresponding to the amount of stored power from the power storage unit, and applies a voltage to the cathode of the photodiode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyo MINOGUCHI, Hiroaki KATSURAI, Yoichi FUKADA, Tomoaki YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11711303
    Abstract: A communication control system includes a plurality of layer 2 switches (SWs); and a communication control device that controls communication of the SWs. Each SW includes one or more queues that each have a variable queue length for accumulating input frames, and a transmission unit that has a shaping function of transmitting the frames accumulated in the queues to a desired destination at a desired rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uzawa, Naotaka Shibata, Yoichi Fukada, Jun Terada
  • Patent number: 11706664
    Abstract: Provided is a path control method of controlling a path of communication in a network including a high priority device dealing with high priority traffic, a high priority control device communicating with the high priority device through a plurality of signal transfer devices transferring signals by periodically repeating a high priority signal transmissible period in which high priority traffic is transmissible and a low priority signal transmissible period in which low priority traffic is transmissible, a low priority device dealing with the low priority traffic, and a low priority control device communicating with the low priority device through the plurality of signal transfer devices, the path control method including calculating a low priority signal transmissible period in each of paths between the low priority device and the low priority control device, and performing setting for switching the path between the low priority device and the low priority control device so that the low priority traffic is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka Shibata, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Yoichi Fukada, Jun Terada
  • Patent number: 11582155
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes an observed data rate acquiring unit configured to acquire observed data rates indicating input data rates of queues, the observed data rates being observed in a layer 2 switch, a threshold value storage unit configured to store predetermined threshold values of the queues, a shaping rate determination unit configured to determine a shaping rate of each queue based on both observed data based on an observed data rate of the observed data rates acquired by the observed data rate acquiring unit and a threshold value of the predetermined threshold values stored in the threshold value storage unit, and a shaping rate setting unit configured to set, in the layer 2 switch, the shaping rate of each queue determined by the shaping rate determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Kubo, Yu Nakayama, Daisuke Hisano, Yoichi Fukada
  • Patent number: 11463382
    Abstract: A communication control system is a communication control system including: a plurality of layer 2 switches; and a control apparatus. Each of the plurality of layer 2 switches includes a queue having a queue length being adjustable for each of transfer routes of data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data stored in the queue for each of the transfer routes to a subsequent destination of the data at a data rate being adjustable for each of the transfer routes. The control apparatus includes an adjustment processing unit configured to acquire information representing a discarded data amount being a data amount of the data discarded in the queue from one of the plurality of layer 2 switches having discarded the data, and adjust the queue length and the data rate of each of the plurality of layer 2 switches for each of the transfer routes, based on the discarded data amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uzawa, Takahiro Kubo, Daisuke Hisano, Yu Nakayama, Yoichi Fukada
  • Patent number: 11451481
    Abstract: A data collection unit of an NW controller (6) collects, from an L2SW (5) constituting an L2NW (4), uplink observation data indicating traffic volume of a session request packet addressed to an application server 2 and downlink observation data indicating traffic volume of a session response packet transmitted from the application server 2, which are acquired by observing packets input to the L2SW (5). A control unit changes shaping rate of the packets addressed to the application server (2) through the L2SW (5) included in the L2NW (4) based on a ratio between the traffic volume indicated by the uplink observation data and the traffic volume indicated by the downlink observation data, or a ratio between an increment of the traffic volume acquired from the uplink observation data and an increment of the traffic volume acquired from the downlink observation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Kubo, Yu Nakayama, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Daisuke Hisano, Yoichi Fukada
  • Publication number: 20220217572
    Abstract: There are included a control unit configured to, when detecting that no high priority traffic frame arrives for a frame interval threshold or longer in the period that allows high priority traffic frames to be transmitted, release the period that allows high priority traffic frames to be transmitted and allocate the released period to the period that allows low priority traffic frames to be transmitted, a frame arrival time information acquisition unit configured to obtain information of frame arrival times of high priority traffic frames, a frame interval calculation unit configured to calculate, in accordance with the information of frame arrival times obtained by the frame arrival time information acquisition unit, frame intervals between frames of the high priority traffic frames input in chronological order, a frame interval threshold calculation unit configured to calculate a new frame interval threshold in accordance with the frame intervals, and a frame interval threshold configuration unit configured
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka SHIBATA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Yoichi FUKADA, Jun TERADA
  • Publication number: 20220210718
    Abstract: A signal forwarding system includes: a plurality of signal forwarding devices forming a plurality of communication routes between a slave station and a master station; and a route control device that determines a communication route, wherein the route control device includes at least: a communication route calculation unit that calculates a communication route in response to a route switching request; and a forward destination setting instruction unit that outputs forward destination setting information based on the communication route, the signal forwarding devices include at least: a forward destination setting instruction acquisition unit that acquires the forward destination setting information; a forward destination set unit that changes a forward destination based on the forward destination setting information; and a forward unit that outputs input traffic based on the forward destination, and any of the route control device and the signal forwarding devices includes: a traffic monitor unit; a non-signa
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka SHIBATA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Hirotaka UJIKAWA, Yoichi FUKADA, Jun TERADA
  • Publication number: 20220200911
    Abstract: A communication control system includes a plurality of layer 2 switches (SWs); and a communication control device that controls communication of the SWs. Each SW includes one or more queues that each have a variable queue length for accumulating input frames, and a transmission unit that has a shaping function of transmitting the frames accumulated in the queues to a desired destination at a desired rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki UZAWA, Naotaka SHIBATA, Yoichi FUKADA, Jun TERADA
  • Publication number: 20220116825
    Abstract: Provided is a path control method of controlling a path of communication in a network including a high priority device dealing with high priority traffic, a high priority control device communicating with the high priority device through a plurality of signal transfer devices transferring signals by periodically repeating a high priority signal transmissible period in which high priority traffic is transmissible and a low priority signal transmissible period in which low priority traffic is transmissible, a low priority device dealing with the low priority traffic, and a low priority control device communicating with the low priority device through the plurality of signal transfer devices, the path control method including calculating a low priority signal transmissible period in each of paths between the low priority device and the low priority control device, and performing setting for switching the path between the low priority device and the low priority control device so that the low priority traffic is
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka SHIBATA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Yoichi FUKADA, Jun TERADA
  • Publication number: 20220030500
    Abstract: A path control method of controlling a communication path in a network including a plurality of wireless devices communicating with a terminal in a wireless manner and a plurality of wireless control devices communicating with any one of the plurality of wireless devices through a plurality of signal transfer devices includes searching for available communication paths and listing the available communication paths for individual combinations of a wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices and a wireless control device of the plurality of wireless control devices, and selecting a combination of communication paths in which a maximum value of the number of communications passing through the same output port of a signal transfer device of the plurality of signal transfer devices is minimized from among the listed available communication paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka SHIBATA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Yoichi FUKADA, Jun TERADA
  • Publication number: 20210336902
    Abstract: A communication control system is a communication control system including: a plurality of layer 2 switches; and a control apparatus. Each of the plurality of layer 2 switches includes a queue having a queue length being adjustable for each of transfer routes of data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data stored in the queue for each of the transfer routes to a subsequent destination of the data at a data rate being adjustable for each of the transfer routes. The control apparatus includes an adjustment processing unit configured to acquire information representing a discarded data amount being a data amount of the data discarded in the queue from one of the plurality of layer 2 switches having discarded the data, and adjust the queue length and the data rate of each of the plurality of layer 2 switches for each of the transfer routes, based on the discarded data amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uzawa, Takahiro Kubo, Daisuke Hisano, Yu Nakayama, Yoichi Fukada
  • Publication number: 20210306362
    Abstract: In a communication control system having a plurality of layer 2 switches and a network controller, the network controller includes a determination unit and an instruction unit, the determination unit being configured to determine whether or not a transfer communication flow feature indicating a feature of a communication flow transferred by a layer 2 switch of the plurality of layer 2 switches is similar to an abnormal communication flow feature indicating a feature of a communication flow when an abnormality occurs; and the instruction unit being configured to: output to the layer 2 switch, when the determination unit determines that the transfer communication flow feature is similar to the abnormal communication flow feature, a first instruction to lower priority of transfer processing for the communication flow and a second instruction to duplicate the communication flow to the layer 2 switch; or output the first instruction to the layer 2 switch, and output, to a server detecting a malicious attack, ident
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro KUBO, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Yu NAKAYAMA, Daisuke HISANO, Yoichi FUKADA
  • Publication number: 20210266263
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes an observed data rate acquiring unit configured to acquire observed data rates indicating input data rates of queues, the observed data rates being observed in a layer 2 switch, a threshold value storage unit configured to store predetermined threshold values of the queues, a shaping rate determination unit configured to determine a shaping rate of each queue based on both observed data based on an observed data rate of the observed data rates acquired by the observed data rate acquiring unit and a threshold value of the predetermined threshold values stored in the threshold value storage unit, and a shaping rate setting unit configured to set, in the layer 2 switch, the shaping rate of each queue determined by the shaping rate determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro KUBO, Yu NAKAYAMA, Daisuke HISANO, Yoichi FUKADA
  • Publication number: 20210176177
    Abstract: A data collection unit of an NW controller (6) collects, from an L2SW (5) constituting an L2NW (4), uplink observation data indicating traffic volume of a session request packet addressed to an application server 2 and downlink observation data indicating traffic volume of a session response packet transmitted from the application server 2, which are acquired by observing packets input to the L2SW (5). A control unit changes shaping rate of the packets addressed to the application server (2) through the L2SW (5) included in the L2NW (4) based on a ratio between the traffic volume indicated by the uplink observation data and the traffic volume indicated by the downlink observation data, or a ratio between an increment of the traffic volume acquired from the uplink observation data and an increment of the traffic volume acquired from the downlink observation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro KUBO, Yu NAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Daisuke HISANO, Yoichi FUKADA