Patents by Inventor Yoichi Kakimoto

Yoichi Kakimoto 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: 7308245
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile station that a user is able to use without inconvenience, and that is able to realize power consumption saving. The mobile station: records a speech-communication history including information identifying a time at which speech communication occurred; decides a cycle changing time and a cycle-after-change based on the speech-communication history, the cycle changing time being a time at which a paging channel monitoring cycle used by a base station in message transmission is to be changed, and the cycle-after-change being a cycle at which the paging channel is to be monitored after the change; notifies the base station of a slot cycle index indicating the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come; and starts monitoring the paging channel at the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kakimoto, Masahiro Izaki, Masayoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 7283833
    Abstract: To provide a PTT system that includes a plurality of PTT-capable mobile phones each including a display unit, and a server which mediates a PTT call between mobile phones out of the plurality of mobile phones. The server includes a storage unit, a retrieval unit, and a sending unit. The storage unit stores images of users of the plurality of mobile phones and phone identifiers of the plurality of mobile phones in correspondence with each other. The retrieval unit retrieves, from the storage unit, an image corresponding to a phone identifier of a mobile phone involved in the PTT call. The sending unit sends the retrieved image to at least one other mobile phone involved in the PTT call. A display unit in the at least one other mobile phone displays the image sent from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yujiro Fukui, Hiroyuki Ueda, Yoichi Kakimoto
  • Publication number: 20070042814
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile station that a user is able to use without inconvenience, and that is able to realize power consumption saving. The mobile station: records a speech-communication history including information identifying a time at which speech communication occurred; decides a cycle changing time and a cycle-after-change based on the speech-communication history, the cycle changing time being a time at which a paging channel monitoring cycle used by a base station in message transmission is to be changed, and the cycle-after-change being a cycle at which the paging channel is to be monitored after the change; notifies the base station of a slot cycle index indicating the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come; and starts monitoring the paging channel at the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kakimoto, Masahiro Izaki, Masayoshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20060003783
    Abstract: To provide a PTT system that includes a plurality of PTT-capable mobile phones each including a display unit, and a server which mediates a PTT call between mobile phones out of the plurality of mobile phones. The server includes a storage unit, a retrieval unit, and a sending unit. The storage unit stores images of users of the plurality of mobile phones and phone identifiers of the plurality of mobile phones in correspondence with each other. The retrieval unit retrieves, from the storage unit, an image corresponding to a phone identifier of a mobile phone involved in the PTT call. The sending unit sends the retrieved image to at least one other mobile phone involved in the PTT call. A display unit in the at least one other mobile phone displays the image sent from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Yujiro Fukui, Hiroyuki Ueda, Yoichi Kakimoto