Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki ETOU

Yoshiyuki ETOU 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).

  • Publication number: 20240153332
    Abstract: A voting system and a voting method by which electronic voting can be securely conducted are provided. A voting system includes: a secret sharing unit that generates a plurality of shares from voting information by secret sharing; a plurality of share storage units that store the plurality of shares in a distributed manner; a first blockchain processing unit that transmits, to a node managing a blockchain, transaction data of voting conducted using the voting information in order to record the transaction data in the blockchain; and a secure computation unit that performs secure computation for analyzing the voting by using the shares stored in a distributed manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki ETOU, Wataru ITONAGA, Daisuke MATSUDA, Ryo FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240062247
    Abstract: A marketing support apparatus includes: a registration unit that registers, in a first database, concealed data obtained by concealing customer information acquired from a customer information management apparatus, an acquisition unit that acquires, from a predetermined business operator, a calculation logic for calculating an evaluation value indicating a degree of a potential customer based on the customer information, a calculation unit that calculates the evaluation value from the concealed data using the calculation logic, and an output unit that outputs output information based on the evaluation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki ETOU, Wataru Itonaga, Daisuke Matsuda, Yoji Mori