Patents by Inventor Yuuta Hamada

Yuuta Hamada 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: 11108694
    Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals to transmit communication information and a communication controller. Each of the communication terminals includes: a generator to generate log information on communication between the communication terminals; a storage to store log information generated by the generator; and a transmitter to upload log information that is capable of being uploaded depending on a communication line band used for the communication information. The communication controller includes a communication management server configured to control transmission of the communication information and a log upload server, wherein the communication controller is configured to distribute the log information uploaded by the transmitter to the log upload server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuta Hamada, Kazuhiro Terayama, Tatsuya Nagase
  • Patent number: 10592940
    Abstract: A transmission system includes: a transmission management system and a fee management system. The transmission management system manages participation time information using a given transmission terminal. The fee management system manages participation fee information. The transmission management system includes a transmission unit that transmits the participation time information to the fee management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miida, Yuuta Hamada, Yoichi Kanai, Naoki Umehara
  • Publication number: 20190306063
    Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals to transmit communication information and a communication controller. Each of the communication terminals includes: a generator to generate log information on communication between the communication terminals; a storage to store log information generated by the generator; and a transmitter to upload log information that is capable of being uploaded depending on a communication line band used for the communication information. The communication controller is configured to distribute the uploaded log information to a server different from a server to control transmission of the communication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yuuta HAMADA, Kazuhiro Terayama, Tatsuya Nagase
  • Patent number: 10264131
    Abstract: A transmission control system capable of transmitting data received from a first transmission terminal to a second transmission terminal, includes a receiver unit to receive identification information to identify the second transmission terminal or a user of the second transmission terminal, the data, and first type information that represents a type of the data, from the first transmission terminal; and a transmission control unit to control the received data not to be transmitted to the second transmission terminal in a case where the received first type information is not included in second type information corresponding to the received identification information, the second type information being managed in a management unit configured to have identification information to identify a predetermined transmission terminal or a user of the transmission terminal, associated with the second type information that represents a type of data processable by the predetermined transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuta Hamada, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 10248739
    Abstract: An management system stores information including communication state data indicating a communication state of a terminal as raw log data, and applies format processing to the raw log data to generate formatted log data before a request for obtaining communications log information of the terminal is received. When the request is received, the management system searches the formatted log data to obtain formatted log data that matches the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuta Hamada
  • Patent number: 10187392
    Abstract: A communications system includes communications terminals connected to a management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuta Hamada, Takahiro Asai, Hiroshi Hinohara
  • Patent number: 9992636
    Abstract: A transmission management system, in response to receiving a registration request for registering a candidate counterpart terminal in a candidate list of a first transmission terminal, determines whether a target of the registration request is a second transmission terminal or a group. The management system transmits, to the second transmission terminal, an approval request for requesting whether to approve registering the second transmission terminal as a candidate counterpart terminal in the candidate list of the first transmission terminal, when the target of the registration request is determined to be the second transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuta Hamada
  • Patent number: 9825999
    Abstract: A playback control device includes an identification part configured to identify one of communication terminals based on identification data associated with a request to play session data including at least one of image data and sound data; a first acquisition part configured to acquire session data which has been communicated in a session in which the communication terminals have joined; a second acquisition part configured to acquire, in response to the identification data, time data representing at least a time period in which the identified communication terminal had joined the session; and a control part configured to, in response to the time data, allow playing of the session data for the time period in which the identified communication terminal had joined the session and disallow playing of the session data for the time period in which the identified communication terminal had not joined the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuta Hamada
  • Patent number: 9762744
    Abstract: A charge management system includes a user managing unit configured to manage pieces of user identification information for identifying users and pieces of terminal identification information for identifying transmission terminals, each piece of user identification information being associated with pieces of terminal identification information for identifying transmission terminals used by a user identified by the each piece of identification information; and a calculating unit configured to calculate a participation charge to each of the transmission terminals, bases on a total participation duration in which the each of the transmission terminals has participated in a conversation during a predetermined period, and calculate a total participation charge to each of the users by summing up the participation charges to transmission terminals specified by the pieces of terminal identification information associated with the each piece of the user identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miida, Yoichi Kanai, Yuuta Hamada, Naoki Umehara
  • Patent number: 9648054
    Abstract: In view of the above, in one aspect of the present invention, in response to a request for registering a specific management terminal to be under management of a specific administrator, a transmission management system not only registers terminal identification information of the specific management terminal, to terminal identification information of management terminals being managed by the specific administrator, but also registers the terminal identification information of the specific management terminal from candidate counterpart terminal identification information for the other management terminals being managed by the specific administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuta Hamada
  • Publication number: 20170046755
    Abstract: A transmission system includes: a transmission management system and a fee management system. The transmission management system manages participation time information using a given transmission terminal. The fee management system manages participation fee information. The transmission management system includes a transmission unit that transmits the participation time information to the fee management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuya MIIDA, Yuuta HAMADA, Yoichi KANAI, Naoki UMEHARA
  • Publication number: 20160366281
    Abstract: A transmission control system capable of transmitting data received from a first transmission terminal to a second transmission terminal, includes a receiver unit to receive identification information to identify the second transmission terminal or a user of the second transmission terminal, the data, and first type information that represents a type of the data, from the first transmission terminal; and a transmission control unit to control the received data not to be transmitted to the second transmission terminal in a case where the received first type information is not included in second type information corresponding to the received identification information, the second type information being managed in a management unit configured to have identification information to identify a predetermined transmission terminal or a user of the transmission terminal, associated with the second type information that represents a type of data processible by the predetermined transmission terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Yuuta HAMADA, Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 9516175
    Abstract: A transmission system includes: a transmission management system and a fee management system. The transmission management system manages participation time information using a given transmission terminal. The fee management system manages participation fee information. The transmission management system includes a transmission unit that transmits the participation time information to the fee management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miida, Yuuta Hamada, Yoichi Kanai, Naoki Umehara
  • Publication number: 20160105445
    Abstract: A communications system includes communications terminals connected to a management server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Yuuta Hamada, Takahiro Asai, Hiroshi Hinohara
  • Patent number: 9307196
    Abstract: A transmission management apparatus, method, and recording medium are provided, including a memory configured to store address information that associates, for each one of a plurality of request source terminals, request source terminal identification information and candidate counterpart terminal identification information; a receiver configured to receive connection request information from a transmission terminal as the request source terminal; and processing circuitry configured to: determine whether to provide status information of the transmission terminal of another transmission management apparatus, based on information of said another apparatus associated with the at least one candidate counterpart terminal, to generate a determination result when the receiver receives the connection request information, provide the status information of the transmission terminal of said another apparatus based on the determination result, and acquire status information of the at least one candidate counterpart termi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hinohara, Takahiro Asai, Yuuta Hamada, Ryoji Shimamoto
  • Patent number: 9300913
    Abstract: A communication system managing a communication conference which uses a plurality of communication terminals includes an acquisition unit acquiring electronic information related to the communication conference from a registration terminal which registers the electronic information; and a management unit registering communication identification information in association with the electronic information, the communication identification information identifying the communication that the communication terminals attend during communications between one communication terminal, which is related to terminal identification information acquired from the registration terminal, and another communication terminal of the communication terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuta Hamada
  • Patent number: 9300915
    Abstract: In response to a request for deleting a specific management terminal from being under management of a specific administrator, a transmission management system not only deletes terminal identification information of the specific management terminal, from terminal identification information of management terminals being managed by the specific administrator, but also deletes the terminal identification information of the specific management terminal from candidate counterpart terminal identification information for the other management terminals being managed by the specific administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuta Hamada
  • Publication number: 20150341435
    Abstract: A communication system includes a transfer control device including a terminal management unit that stores a type of content data usable by a second terminal device, a reception unit that receives at least one type of content data generated by a first terminal device, a data selection unit that selects, for the second terminal device, the usable type of content data from among the at least one type of content data received from the first terminal device, by reference to the terminal management unit, a transmission unit that transmits the type of content data selected by the data selection unit to the second terminal device, and an update unit that updates corresponding information stored in the terminal management unit, according to change notification of a usable type of content data, the change notification being transmitted from the second terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Yuuta HAMADA, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20150264311
    Abstract: A transmission management apparatus, method, and recording medium are provided, including a memory configured to store address information that associates, for each one of a plurality of request source terminals, request source terminal identification information and candidate counterpart terminal identification information; a receiver configured to receive connection request information from a transmission terminal as the request source terminal; and processing circuitry configured to: determine whether to provide status information of the transmission terminal of another transmission management apparatus, based on information of said another apparatus associated with the at least one candidate counterpart terminal, to generate a determination result when the receiver receives the connection request information, provide the status information of the transmission terminal of said another apparatus based on the determination result, and acquire status information of the at least one candidate counterpart termi
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi HINOHARA, Takahiro ASAI, Yuuta HAMADA, Ryoji SHIMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9077621
    Abstract: An apparatus to manage transmission of log data generated by a transmission terminal from the transmission terminal to a log management device obtains detection result data indicating whether a predetermined event is detected at the log management device, determines whether the log data is to be transmitted from the transmission terminal to the log management device based on the detection result data to generate a determination result, and transmits the transmission approval data having the determination result to the transmission terminal to cause the transmission terminal to process the log data according to the determination result of the transmission approval data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuta Hamada