Fujitsu Assigned Ten Patents

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, search control
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,942,969) developed by Minagi, Riho, Kawasaki, Japan, for “non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, search control method, and search control apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including searching data based on search conditions in response to receiving a search condition which designates an output data type, wherein the data is stored in a database, counting, for each of the searched data, a number of times each of the output data type is designated, storing type-converted data of at least one data in a storage device in association with the at least one data, generating, upon receiving, from a terminal device, a search condition which designates the specified output data type and by which the at least one data is searched, a search result by using the type-converted data stored in the storage device, and transmitting the search result to the terminal device.”

The patent application was filed on July 18, 2018 (16/038,854).

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, analysis
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,936,816) developed by Kataoka, Masahiro, Kamakura, Japan, Ideuchi, Masao, Hachioji, Japan, and Okura, Seiji, Meguro, Japan, for “non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, analysis method, and analysis device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including generating index information regarding a first string data including a plurality of words or phrases, the index information indicating appearance positions of each of characters, setting flag information to the index information, the flag information indicating head positions plurality of words or phrases and end positions of each of the plurality of words or phrases, and extracting, from a second string data, a plurality of dividable words or phrases corresponding to the plurality of words or phrases by using the index information to which the flag information is set.”

The patent application was filed on March 29, 2018 (15/940,220).

Setting method/device, and storage medium
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,936,332) developed by Hirai, Akira, Kawasaki, Japan, for “setting method, setting device, and storage medium.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A non-transitory storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes detecting connection relationship between a server and a communication device that belong to a system to generate physical connection information indicating the connection relationship, referring to design information related to connection of the server and the communication device to compare the physical connection information and the design information to determine presence or absence of an error in the connection relationship, determining whether a predetermined setting corresponding to the design information is applicable to a port of the communication device corresponding to the connection relationship determined as erroneous, applying the predetermined setting to the port of the communication device to which the predetermined setting has been determined as applicable, and changing the design information related to the communication device to which the predetermined setting has been applied, based on the physical connection information.”

The patent application was filed on February 27, 2019 (16/286,682).

Storage and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,929,299) developed by Nakata, Yasuyuki, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage system, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system includes a storage device, and a processor configured to store first data in the storage device, receive second data, specify a first data size in accordance with a second data size of the second data, divide the first data into a plurality of first blocks each having the specified first data size, divide the second data into a plurality of second blocks each having the specified first data size, and store, in the storage device, data included in a block of the plurality of second blocks, while data included in another block of the plurality of second blocks is not stored in the storage device, wherein the data of the block is not identical to data of any of the plurality of first blocks, and the data of the another block is identical to data of any of the plurality of first blocks.”

The patent application was filed on June 11, 2018 (16/004,479).

Recording medium recording communication control program, communication control
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,917,287) developed by Kono, Taki, Kodaira, Japan, Kato, Akira, Yachiyo, Japan, Takano, Kosei, Fujimino, Japan, Kawamura, Machiko, Kawasaki, Japan, Sato, Yukio, Ota, Japan, Hitsuda, Kanami, Yokohama, Japan, Nakayama, Teruaki, Setagaya, Japan, and Nikai, Hiroki, Ota, Japan, for “recording medium recording communication control program, communication control apparatus, and communication control method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a communication control program for causing a computer to execute a process includes: receiving, from each of a plurality of base stations, communication result between the respective base stations and a communication terminal, storing, when the received communication result indicates that transmission of a message from a first base station to a specific communication terminal is failed, the message in a storage in association with identification information on the specific communication terminal, and referring, when the received communication results indicates that communication is established between a second base station and the specific communication terminal, to the storage, transmitting the message stored in association with the identification information on the specific communication terminal to the second base station, and requesting the second base station to transmit the message to the specific communication terminal.”

The patent application was filed on March 28, 2019 (16/367,322).

Non-transitory computer readable recording medium, specifying method
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,896,296) developed by Kataoka, Masahiro, Kamakura, Japan, Ota, Tomonori, Kawasaki, Japan, Hiramatsu, Junya, Yokohama, Japan, and Fujishima, Toshiyuki, Kawasaki, Japan, for “non-transitory computer readable recording medium, specifying method, and information processing apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An information processing apparatus accepts information corresponding to a text. The information processing apparatus refers to a storage unit that stores therein co-occurrence information on other texts with respect to the text and information corresponding to the other texts by associating both the information with the text. The information processing apparatus specifies, from among the pieces of information corresponding to the other texts, the text associated with the information corresponding to the other texts that is associated with the co-occurrence information that meets the standard.”

The patent application was filed on August 17, 2018 (16/104,189).

Storage apparatus and recording medium storing backup program
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,872,020) developed by Amano, Kazuhiko, Kunitachi, Japan, for “storage apparatus and recording medium storing backup program.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage apparatus includes, a determination circuit that determines a path between one of a plurality of backup power sources and one of a plurality of backup target circuits each of the plurality of backup power sources including a memory based on configuration information, state information of the storage apparatus, and setting information of performance request for the storage apparatus, a plurality of switches arranged between the plurality of backup target circuits and the plurality of backup power sources, and a control circuit that controls the switches to couple the backup target circuit to the backup power source via the path determined by the determination circuit.”

The patent application was filed on October 16, 2018 (16/161,135).

Reconciled data storage
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,866,944) developed by Pena Munoz, Manuel, Seville, Spain, Mora Lopez, Jose, Llaves, Alejandro, Madrid, Spain, Garcia Santa, Nuria, Villazon-Terrazas, Boris, and De La Torre, Victor, Madrid, Spain, for a “reconciled data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An array of registered entity property-value pairs representing a registered entity are stored in a data storage system. Each of the pairs includes a property label representing a property and a value range of the property. For each identifier property-value, an identifier property label, uniquely identifying the registered entity, and an identifier value representing a value of the identifier property are stored. A dataset is acquired with dataset property-value pairs for each of a first set of acquired dataset entities, where each pair includes a property label representing a property and a value representing a value range of the property. An identifier property-value pair matching an acquired dataset property-value pair for the acquired dataset entity is identified and then the acquired dataset property-value pairs are consolidated into the array of registered entity property-value pairs.”

The patent application was filed on March 23, 2018 (15/933,933).

Storage, recording medium and method including duplicating data blocks classified
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,866,758) developed by Iwata, Satoshi, Yokohama, Japan, for “data storage apparatus, recording medium and method including duplicating data blocks classified according to dimension information and storing duplicates into media in different arrangement.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data storage apparatus, storage medium and method for controlling the data storage apparatus are disclosed in which duplicates of a plurality of data blocks, which are stored in two or more media in a first arrangement and classified according to a plurality of pieces of dimension information, are stored into two or more other media in a second arrangement different from the first arrangement. A data block may be classified into first class data or second class data of a first dimension information or a second dimension information. A processor may store duplicates of first and third data blocks into a third medium, and duplicates of second and forth data blocks into a fourth medium. This can reduce the number of times of changing a medium, and suppress lowering in the capacity efficiency. Dimension information may be an axis of obtaining data.”

The patent application was filed on June 10, 2019 (16/436,168).

Storage control using index indicating order of additional writing of data
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,866,743) developed by Suzuki, Yusuke, Kawasaki, Japan, Kurasawa, Yusuke, Nagano, Japan, Kubota, Norihide, Konta, Yoshihito, Kawasaki, Japan, Kajiyama, Marino, Yokohama, Japan, Tanaka, Yuji, Inagi, Japan, Iga, Toshio, Takeda, Kazuya, and Watanabe, Takeshi, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage control device using index indicating order of additional writing of data, storage control method using index indicating order of additional writing of data, and recording medium recording program using index indicating order of additional writing of data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage control device, includes: a memory configured to store meta information and map information, the meta information associates a logical address to identify data from an information processing device which uses a storage with a data block identifier to identify a data block used for an arrangement of the data on the storage and including a header area and a payload area and an index indicating an order of additional writing of the data, the map information associates the data block identifier with a physical identifier indicating a physical position on the storage, and a processor specifies the data block and a write position in a payload area based on the physical identifier and the index, writes the data in the specified data block and performs a write control to write a data unit header including an offset and a data length at a position designated by the index.”

The patent application was filed on January 29, 2019 (16/260,308).