Patents by Inventor Yoshiki Hirakouchi

Yoshiki Hirakouchi 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: 6073054
    Abstract: An information processing system comprises a plurality of systems (1, 3, 4, 6) communicating through a transmission path (2) and performing a processing base on their own function. One of the plurality of systems acts as as an supervising system having a supervising function. The supervising system (1, 4) sets a goal for each of the plurality of systems, collects the processing result on each system and evaluates the processing result; and on the basis of the processing result, the supervising system sets a new goal for each system considering a goal of the entire system comprising said plurality of systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Katayama, Junzo Kawakami, Hiroyuki Kudo, Yoshiki Hirakouchi, Hiroaki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5812389
    Abstract: An information processing system comprises a plurality of systems (1, 3, 4, 6) communicating through a transmission path (2) and performing a processing base on their own function. One of the plurality of systems acts as as an supervising system having a supervising function. The supervising system (1, 4) sets a goal for each of the plurality of systems, collects the processing result on each system and evaluates the processing result; and on the basis of the processing result, the supervising system sets a new goal for each system considering a goal of the entire system comprising said plurality of systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Katayama, Junzo Kawakami, Hiroyuki Kudo, Yoshiki Hirakouchi, Hiroaki Ishikawa