Patents by Inventor Yoshimi Satoh

Yoshimi Satoh 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: 11461439
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an authenticating unit, an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, and a first display unit. The authenticating unit, when accepting first user information used for authentication of determining whether a user has an authority, compares the first user information and second user information identifying a user having the authority. The acquiring unit acquires an application list screen, in which each of applications is associated with display information, in accordance with an operation performed by the authenticated user. The first specifying unit, when the acquiring unit acquires the application list screen, specifies authority information corresponding to the second user information identifying the authenticated user, based on first information indicating a correspondence relation between the second user information and the authority information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimi Satoh
  • Publication number: 20210097157
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an authenticating unit, an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, and a first display unit. The authenticating unit, when accepting first user information used for authentication of determining whether a user has an authority, compares the first user information and second user information identifying a user having the authority. The acquiring unit acquires an application list screen, in which each of applications is associated with display information, in accordance with an operation performed by the authenticated user. The first specifying unit, when the acquiring unit acquires the application list screen, specifies authority information corresponding to the second user information identifying the authenticated user, based on first information indicating a correspondence relation between the second user information and the authority information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshimi SATOH
  • Patent number: 10885161
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an authenticating unit, an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, and a first display unit. The authenticating unit, when accepting first user information used for authentication of determining whether a user has an authority, compares the first user information and second user information identifying a user having the authority. The acquiring unit acquires an application list screen, in which each of applications is associated with display information, in accordance with an operation performed by the authenticated user. The first specifying unit, when the acquiring unit acquires the application list screen, specifies authority information corresponding to the second user information identifying the authenticated user, based on first information indicating a correspondence relation between the second user information and the authority information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimi Satoh
  • Patent number: 10757108
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and at least one processor. The memory stores correspondence information associating application identification information, identifying installed applications, with usage authorization information, related to usage authorization of the applications. The processor, upon a request being received from an application requesting the usage authorization information, can specify usage authorization information associated with the application identification information included in the request. The processor can then notify the application of the requesting source, requesting the usage authorization information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hayashi, Yoshimi Satoh
  • Patent number: 10687187
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a server including: an obtaining unit configured to obtain, from an apparatus, first information including apparatus information which includes peripheral device connection information indicating whether a peripheral device is connected to the apparatus and indicates a function that the apparatus has, and application identification information which identifies an application required to be used by the apparatus; an identifying unit configured to refer to second information in which each application is associated with condition information indicating a condition necessary to use that application, and identify condition information associated with the application identified by the application identification information included in the first information; and a determining unit configured to determine whether the application identified by the application identification information included in the first information can be used based on the apparatus information included i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yoshimi Satoh
  • Publication number: 20180101668
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an authenticating unit, an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, and a first display unit. The authenticating unit, when accepting first user information used for authentication of determining whether a user has an authority, compares the first user information and second user information identifying a user having the authority. The acquiring unit acquires an application list screen, in which each of applications is associated with display information, in accordance with an operation performed by the authenticated user. The first specifying unit, when the acquiring unit acquires the application list screen, specifies authority information corresponding to the second user information identifying the authenticated user, based on first information indicating a correspondence relation between the second user information and the authority information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshimi SATOH
  • Publication number: 20170180387
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a correspondence-information storage unit configured to store therein correspondence information in which, with each piece of application identification information for identifying installed applications, usage authorization information related to usage authorization of the applications is associated; a specifying unit configured to, when a first request including the application identification information and requesting the usage authorization information is received from any of the applications, specify the usage authorization information associated with the application identification information included in the first request based on the correspondence information; and a notifying unit configured to notify the application of a requesting source of the first request of the usage authorization information specified by the specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke HAYASHI, Yoshimi Satoh
  • Publication number: 20160182610
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a server including: an obtaining unit configured to obtain, from an apparatus, first information including apparatus information which includes peripheral device connection information indicating whether a peripheral device is connected to the apparatus and indicates a function that the apparatus has, and application identification information which identifies an application required to be used by the apparatus; an identifying unit configured to refer to second information in which each application is associated with condition information indicating a condition necessary to use that application, and identify condition information associated with the application identified by the application identification information included in the first information; and a determining unit configured to determine whether the application identified by the application identification information included in the first information can be used based on the apparatus information included i
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yoshimi SATOH
  • Patent number: 9338014
    Abstract: A network system includes a management apparatus and multiple apparatuses. The management apparatus includes a preparation instruction unit to transmit an instruction to prepare a certificate request to the apparatuses; a collection unit to collect the certificate requests; a request unit to request issuance of certificates to a certificate authority; a resetting instruction unit to transmit the issued certificates to the apparatuses and to instruct resetting of certificates. The apparatus includes a storing unit including an operation area for storing a first certificate and a provisional operation area; a provisionally operating unit to transfer the first certificate to the provisional operation area, and to generate a certificate request, and to transmit the certificate request to the management apparatus; a setting unit to store a second certificate, issued by the certificate authority, in the operation area, and to instruct a communication unit to conduct the communication by switching a certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshimi Satoh
  • Publication number: 20140244999
    Abstract: A network system includes a management apparatus and multiple apparatuses. The management apparatus includes a preparation instruction unit to transmit an instruction to prepare a certificate request to the apparatuses; a collection unit to collect the certificate requests; a request unit to request issuance of certificates to a certificate authority; a resetting instruction unit to transmit the issued certificates to the apparatuses and to instruct resetting of certificates. The apparatus includes a storing unit including an operation area for storing a first certificate and a provisional operation area; a provisionally operating unit to transfer the first certificate to the provisional operation area, and to generate a certificate request, and to transmit the certificate request to the management apparatus; a setting unit to store a second certificate, issued by the certificate authority, in the operation area, and to instruct a communication unit to conduct the communication by switching a certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Yoshimi SATOH
  • Patent number: 8745377
    Abstract: A network system includes a management apparatus and multiple apparatuses. The management apparatus includes a preparation instruction unit to transmit an instruction to prepare a certificate request to the apparatuses; a collection unit to collect the certificate requests; a request unit to request issuance of certificates to a certificate authority; a resetting instruction unit to transmit the issued certificates to the apparatuses and to instruct resetting of certificates. The apparatus includes a storing unit including an operation area for storing a first certificate and a provisional operation area; a provisionally operating unit to transfer the first certificate to the provisional operation area, and to generate a certificate request, and to transmit the certificate request to the management apparatus; a setting unit to store a second certificate, issued by the certificate authority, in the operation area, and to instruct a communication unit to conduct the communication by switching a certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshimi Satoh
  • Publication number: 20130227275
    Abstract: A network system includes a management apparatus and multiple apparatuses. The management apparatus includes a preparation instruction unit to transmit an instruction to prepare a certificate request to the apparatuses; a collection unit to collect the certificate requests; a request unit to request issuance of certificates to a certificate authority; a resetting instruction unit to transmit the issued certificates to the apparatuses and to instruct resetting of certificates. The apparatus includes a storing unit including an operation area for storing a first certificate and a provisional operation area; a provisionally operating unit to transfer the first certificate to the provisional operation area, and to generate a certificate request, and to transmit the certificate request to the management apparatus; a setting unit to store a second certificate, issued by the certificate authority, in the operation area, and to instruct a communication unit to conduct the communication by switching a certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventor: Yoshimi SATOH
  • Patent number: 5866592
    Abstract: Compounds of the following general formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Nippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Hayashi, Takeo Harada, Jun Katada, Akira Tachiki, Takeo Okazaki, Yoshimi Satoh, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Tohru Asari