Patents by Inventor Yoshikatsu Shirai

Yoshikatsu Shirai 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: 10489427
    Abstract: The present invention includes: an extraction unit that extracts a specified quantity of documents, as targets to be classified by a user, from document information; a classification code accepting unit that accepts a classification code which is an identifier used when categorizing the documents, and is assigned by the user to each of the extracted documents; a database that records keywords selected from the extracted documents on the basis of the classification code; a score calculation unit that calculates a score which evaluates linkage strength between documents included in the document information, and the classification code on the basis of the keywords wherein the score calculation unit recalculates the score on the basis of a result of further extraction, by the extraction unit, of a specified quantity of documents, as targets to be classified by the user, from the document information according to the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FRONTEO, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Patent number: 10445357
    Abstract: A document classification system is provided. The document classification system analyzes digital document information which is collected to be submitted as evidence in a lawsuit and classifies the digital document information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FRONTEO, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Patent number: 10204153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to data analysis for evaluating a plurality of pieces of object data; and the evaluation corresponds to the relation between each piece of object data and a specified case. An index that enables ranking of the plurality of pieces of object data is generated by the evaluation and the index changes based on an input entered by a user. A pattern is extracted that characterizes the reference data from the reference data according to the classification information assigned by the input. The index is determined by evaluating the relation between the object data and the specified case based on the extracted pattern and set to the object data. The plurality of pieces of object data are ranked according to the index and reported the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: FRONTEO, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko, Akiteru Hanatani, Jakob Halskov, Nanako Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10073891
    Abstract: A forensic system includes a result information receiving unit that receives result information which is a determination result of connection between a lawsuit and a document group including a predetermined number of documents, which is extracted from document data included in digital information, by a user, an element selection unit that calculates evaluation values of elements which commonly appear in the document group in each result information item from the characteristics of the elements and selects the elements on the basis of the evaluation values, a score calculation unit that calculates a score of each document in the document data from the selected elements included in each document of the document data and the evaluation values of the selected elements, and a recall ratio calculation unit that calculates a recall ratio related to the determination of the connection to the lawsuit on the basis of the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: FRONTEO, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Patent number: 9977825
    Abstract: Efficiency in monitoring documents is promoted by quantifying the priorities of the documents to be monitored. A document analysis system (1) includes: a score calculation unit (116) that calculates a score indicating strength of linkage between a document included in document information and a classification code indicating the relevance between the document information and a lawsuit or a fraud investigation; and a score report unit (701) that reports the score to a user according to the calculated score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: UBIC, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko, Akiteru Hanatani
  • Patent number: 9720912
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce a review load of a reviewer. A document management system includes a screen display unit that displays a document group having a plurality of pieces of document data extracted from digital information to be determined for relevance to a lawsuit by a user and classification buttons allowing the user to select classification conditions for classifying the document group under predetermined conditions, a selection information reception unit that receives information relating to a classification button selected by the user among the classification button displayed by the screen display unit as selection information, and a classification instruction unit that analyzes the document group based on the selection information, classifies document data in the document group using the analysis result, and instructs the screen display unit to display the document group based on the classification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Akiteru Hanatani
  • Publication number: 20170097983
    Abstract: The present invention relates to data analysis for evaluating a plurality of pieces of object data; and the evaluation corresponds to the relation between each piece of object data and a specified case. An index that enables ranking of the plurality of pieces of object data is generated by the evaluation and the index changes based on an input entered by a user. A pattern is extracted that characterizes the reference data from the reference data according to the classification information assigned by the input. The index is determined by evaluating the relation between the object data and the specified case based on the extracted pattern and set to the object data. The plurality of pieces of object data are ranked according to the index and reported the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko, Akiteru Hanatani, Jakob Halskov, Nanako Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20170091321
    Abstract: A document classification system is provided. The document classification system analyzes digital document information which is collected to be submitted as evidence in a lawsuit and classifies the digital document information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko, SR.
  • Publication number: 20170075986
    Abstract: Efficiency in monitoring documents is promoted by quantifying the priorities of the documents to be monitored. A document analysis system (1) includes: a score calculation unit (116) that calculates a score indicating strength of linkage between a document included in document information and a classification code indicating the relevance between the document information and a lawsuit or a fraud investigation; and a score report unit (701) that reports the score to a user according to the calculated score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA, Kazumi HASUKO, Akiteru HANATANI
  • Patent number: 9594757
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce a review load of a reviewer. A document management system acquires digital information recorded in a plurality of computers or a server and analyzes the acquired digital information for relevance to a lawsuit. The document management system includes a thread classification unit that verifies supplementary information of each piece of document data included in the digital information and classifies the document data into threads based on the supplementary information, a similarity analysis unit that extracts elements included in the supplementary information of the classified document data for each thread and analyzes similarity between the threads based on the extracted elements, and an integration unit that integrates the threads based on the similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Patent number: 9563652
    Abstract: The present invention relates to data analysis for evaluating a plurality of pieces of object data; and the evaluation corresponds to the relation between each piece of object data and a specified case. An index that enables ranking of the plurality of pieces of object data is generated by the evaluation and the index changes based on an input entered by a user. A pattern is extracted that characterizes the reference data from the reference data according to the classification information assigned by the input. The index is determined by evaluating the relation between the object data and the specified case based on the extracted pattern and set to the object data. The plurality of pieces of object data are ranked according to the index and reported the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: UBIC, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko, Akiteru Hanatani, Jakob Halskov, Nanako Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9552570
    Abstract: A document classification system is provided. The document classification system analyzes digital document information which is collected to be submitted as evidence in a lawsuit and classifies the digital document information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: UBIC, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20170011480
    Abstract: In discovery, it is necessary to execute efficiently work and the like. A data analysis system (5) includes an identifying section (121) that, when a first word that indicates a predetermined action is included in data, identifies a second word that indicates an object of the predetermined action; and an association assigner (122) that associates attribute information that indicates an attribute of data including the first word and the second word with the first word and second word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA, Kazumi HASUKO, Akiteru HANATANI, Jakob HALSKOV
  • Publication number: 20170011479
    Abstract: Possible events in the future can be predicted by analyzing existing data. A document analysis system (1) includes: a score calculator (116) that calculates a score that represents a strength of connection of a document extracted from document information to a classification symbol representing a degree of relevancy between the document information and a litigation or fraud investigation; a phase identifying section (122) that identifies a phase by which a predetermined action to be a cause of the litigation or fraud investigation is classified along with development of the predetermined action, based on the calculated score; and a change estimation unit (120) that estimates change in the identified phase, based on temporal transition of the phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA, Kazumi HASUKO, Akiteru HANATANI
  • Patent number: 9542474
    Abstract: Disclosed is a forensic system capable of enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of classification work of whether to submit document information as evidence in a lawsuit by highlighting a portion including a specific keyword in a unit of a sentence. The forensic system includes: a database that registers a keyword for determining by a user whether a plurality of pieces of document information included in the digital information is related to a lawsuit; a retrieving unit that retrieves the keyword registered in the database from the document information; a sentence extracting unit that extracts a sentence including the retrieved keyword from the document information; a score calculating unit that calculates a score indicating a degree of relevance to the lawsuit using a feature value extracted from the sentence extracted by the sentence extracting unit; and a highlighting unit that changes a degree of highlighting of the sentence according to the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Patent number: 9495445
    Abstract: It is possible to analyze digitized document information gathered to be provided as evidence in a legal action and to classify the document information to be easily accessible in the legal action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20160292197
    Abstract: The present invention relates to data analysis for evaluating a plurality of pieces of object data; and the evaluation corresponds to the relation between each piece of object data and a specified case. An index that enables ranking of the plurality of pieces of object data is generated by the evaluation and the index changes based on an input entered by a user. A pattern is extracted that characterizes the reference data from the reference data according to the classification information assigned by the input. The index is determined by evaluating the relation between the object data and the specified case based on the extracted pattern and set to the object data. The plurality of pieces of object data are ranked according to the index and reported the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA, Kazumi HASUKO, Akiteru HANATANI, Jakob HALSKOV, Nanako YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20160275147
    Abstract: A document classification system is described that acquires digital information recorded on multiple computers or servers. The document classification system analyzes document information included in the acquired digital information, and classifies the document information to make it easy to use the document information in a lawsuit. The document classification system includes: an extraction unit; a classification code accepting unit; a selection unit; a search unit; a score calculation unit; an automatic classification unit; and a display control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA, Kazumi HASUKO, Akiteru HANATANI
  • Publication number: 20160246795
    Abstract: A forensic system includes a result information receiving unit that receives result information which is a determination result of connection between a lawsuit and a document group including a predetermined number of documents, which is extracted from document data included in digital information, by a user, an element selection unit that calculates evaluation values of elements which commonly appear in the document group in each result information item from the characteristics of the elements and selects the elements on the basis of the evaluation values, a score calculation unit that calculates a score of each document in the document data from the selected elements included in each document of the document data and the evaluation values of the selected elements, and a recall ratio calculation unit that calculates a recall ratio related to the determination of the connection to the lawsuit on the basis of the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20160239559
    Abstract: The present invention includes: an extraction unit that extracts a specified quantity of documents, as targets to be classified by a user, from document information; a classification code accepting unit that accepts a classification code which is an identifier used when categorizing the documents, and is assigned by the user to each of the extracted documents; a database that records keywords selected from the extracted documents on the basis of the classification code; a score calculation unit that calculates a score which evaluates linkage strength between documents included in the document information, and the classification code on the basis of the keywords; and a judgment unit that judges whether the number of times of the calculation of the score has reached a specified number of times or not; wherein when the judgment unit determines that the number of times of the calculation of the score has not reached the specified number of times, the score calculation unit recalculates the score on the basis of a
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA, Kazumi HASUKO