Patents by Inventor Yuji Minato

Yuji Minato 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: 11936526
    Abstract: The network device information management apparatus includes: a log data acquisition unit configured to acquire log data from each of the plurality of devices, the log data including information about components of the plurality of devices; and an inventory information estimation unit configured to exclude a common portion of the log data before and after registration of the component to extract a component configuration indicating information about the component newly registered to the device, compare the extracted component configuration with the component configuration extracted from a component registered to another device, estimate the common portion as inventory information, and store the estimated inventory information in storage means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yokota, Masatoshi Namiki, Yuji Minato, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11469966
    Abstract: [Problem] A transmission system, an apparatus management server, a failure management method, and a program enabling the cause of a failure associated with a silent change of an article to be swiftly identified are provided. [Solution] An apparatus management server 100 of a transmission system includes a collection unit configured to collect history information on an introduction instance of articles to an optical transmission apparatus 10 and an information analysis unit 130 configured to visualize and display, based on the history information collected, a graph in which a starting date of use for each of the articles is associated with the number of introductions of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Minato, Masahiro Yokota, Masatoshi Namiki, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11411879
    Abstract: A management device of a transmission system includes a new path information input unit, a statistical information collecting unit that collects statistical information of actual traffic from nodes, and an uninterruptible path designing unit that calculates a delay fluctuation in an entire path with respect to a fluctuation for each section of the path, and designs a path in which the calculated delay fluctuation is smaller than a maximum fluctuation amount according to a buffering amount in the reception node as an uninterruptible path, a path information setting unit that updates path information of the path and stores the updated path information in an existing path information storage unit, and sets a bandwidth permitted in a node constituting the path in the node, and a notification unit that notifies a user of a path that was not designed as the uninterruptible path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Namiki, Masahiro Yokota, Yuji Minato, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210281489
    Abstract: [Problem] A transmission system, an apparatus management server, a failure management method, and a program enabling the cause of a failure associated with a silent change of an article to be swiftly identified are provided. [Solution] An apparatus management server 100 of a transmission system includes a collection unit configured to collect history information on an introduction instance of articles to an optical transmission apparatus 10 and an information analysis unit 130 configured to visualize and display, based on the history information collected, a graph in which a starting date of use for each of the articles is associated with the number of introductions of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Minato, Masahiro Yokota, Masatoshi Namiki, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210266266
    Abstract: [Problem] A management device for a transmission system and a designing method for a transmission system which enable flexible bandwidth designing according to conditions of paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Masatoshi Namiki, Masahiro Yokota, Yuji Minato, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210264352
    Abstract: [Problem] Inventory information about a network device can be known without vendor intervention. [Solution] The network device information management apparatus 20 includes: a log data acquisition unit configured to acquire log data from each of the plurality of devices 40, the log data including information about components 42 of the plurality of devices; and an inventory information estimation unit configured to exclude a common portion of the log data before and after registration of the component 42 to extract a component configuration indicating information about the component 42 newly registered to the device 40, compare the extracted component configuration with the component configuration extracted from a component 42 registered to another device 40, estimate the common portion as inventory information, and store the estimated inventory information in storage means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro Yokota, Masatoshi Namiki, Yuji Minato, Masaaki Inami, Daisaku Shimazaki, Hideki Maeda