Fujitsu Assigned Eighteen Patents

Storage medium and data processing
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11520857) developed by Akima, Hisanao, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage medium and data processing method.”

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 includes acquiring, based on a compression model that is acquired by learning processing on a set of data generated by using a combination of values of variables and that compresses dimensions of data, a point corresponding to data generated by using a predetermined combination of the values of variables within a compressed space, acquiring, based on the point corresponding to the data generated by using the predetermined combination, a target point within the space corresponding to a target value of a characteristic changing in accordance with the values of variables, and a regression model within the space for a predetermined variable of variables, a change amount of the predetermined variable, and changing the value of the predetermined variable included in the predetermined combination by using the change amount.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-02-26 (16/801652).

Storage control apparatus and method
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11487428) developed by Matsumura, Shinichiro, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage control apparatus and storage control method.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage control apparatus, includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive management information for managing data stored in a first storage device, generate, for each processing unit of the data, restoration information for restoring the management information, add the data to the restoration information by processing the data based on the management information on a second storage device, store, in the first storage device, the added restoration information, and reconstruct the management information on the second storage device based on the added restoration information when detecting an abnormality occurrence on the receiving the management information.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-11-25 (17/103997).

Information processing apparatus reading data using host physcal address and guest physical address and computer-readable recording medium recording control program reading data using host physical address and guest physical address
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11487466) developed by Suzuki, Kazuhiro, Kawasaki, Japan, for “information processing apparatus reading data using host physcal address and guest physical address and computer-readable recording medium recording control program reading data using host physical address and guest physical address.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An information processing apparatus coupled to a storage device via a network includes a processor configured to: acquire a host physical address over a physical storage region in which information regarding an access to the storage device from a guest OS is stored from a first packet stored in the physical storage region storing a packet obtained by encapsulating the information regarding the access, convert the acquired host physical address into a guest physical address recognized by the guest OS, create a data structure of a block device, store the guest physical address in a data address region of the data structure, specify the host physical address corresponding to the guest physical address while referring to the memory when reading from the data address region is detected, read data from the specified host physical address over the physical storage region, and transfer the read data to the guest OS.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-05-12 (17/317941).

Storage control device, medium and control method
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11481324) developed by Ogawa, Junichi, Tachikawa, Japan, for “storage control device, storage medium and storage control method.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage control device, includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: identify a storage device to store a target data to be backed up, generate relational information which indicates a relationship between a write data size, an environmental temperature, and write loads by using write performance of the storage device when an operation of the storage control device is normal, and when storing the target data in the storage device, determine one of the write loads by using the relational information.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-02-11 (17/173240).

Storage control apparatus and medium
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11474750) developed by Zhou, Guangyu, and Tsuchiyama, Yukari, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage control apparatus and storage medium.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage control apparatus comprising: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive a release request for a first storage area in a virtual storage area, release, among unit storage areas included in a physical storage area, one or more first unit storage areas allocated to the first storage area from the first storage area, execute overwrite processing of writing 0 to each of the first unit storage areas at a timing asynchronous with the release of the first unit storage areas, and when a write request is received to write data to the virtual storage area, execute write processing in which an unallocated unit storage area among the unit storage areas included in the physical storage area is allocated to a write destination area for the write data in the virtual storage area.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-12-04 (17/111580).

Storage medium, estimation device, and method
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11462102) developed by Endoh, Toshio, Yokohama, Japan, and Matsumoto, Kazuhiro, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage medium, estimation device, and estimation method.”

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 comprising: calculating parameters of an expression that describes a model that is associated with a traffic system and estimates a traffic volume between a plurality of points, by using a plurality of measurement data measured in the traffic system that connects the plurality of points to each other, by using a method for solving an optimization problem, generating, when an indefinite solution is obtained by the calculating, indefiniteness information related to a range of the indefinite solution in the method for solving the optimization problem, and determining addition of the plurality of measurement data or output of the indefinite solution, depending on the indefiniteness information.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-03-24 (16/827786).

Recording medium, response processing method, apparatus, and response processing
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11461401) developed by Miyazawa, Takaaki, Komae, Japan, and Maekawa, Takahiro, Nagoya, Japan, for “recording medium, response processing method, response processing apparatus, and response processing system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium stores therein a response processing program that causes a computer to present, based on question data and information associating answer data, the answer data related to input question data. The response processing program causes the computer to execute a process including referring to a storage storing therein a response result for past question data input in the past, and displaying poorly resolved question data for which a related answer is not identified or a presented answer has been negatively evaluated, and setting specified poorly resolved question data among the displayed poorly resolved question data, as object question data for which information associating answer data is additionally registered. The displayed poorly resolved question data is displayed as priority question data having higher priority a greater is a poor resolution occurrence number thereof.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-08-20 (16/998345).

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing information processing program, method, and information processing device
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11449501) developed by Kataoka, Masahiro, Kamakura, Japan, Sakamoto, Nobuhiro, Nagoya, Japan, Suzuki, Yasuhiro, Nishimura, Tetsuya, Yokohama, Japan, for “non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing information processing program, information processing method, and information processing device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method includes: generating first vector data by vector-converting first sentence data from a user input, specifying plural pieces of second sentence data from among a plurality of second sentence data stored in a storage device, each second sentence data including a plurality of vector data, each of the plural pieces of second sentence data including vector data corresponding to the first vector data, and determining data to be output in connection with the first sentence data by using a degree of similarity between second and third vector data, the second vector data being each of vector data other than the first vector data in certain data included in the specified plural pieces of second sentence data, the third vector data being each of vector data other than the first vector data in data other than the certain data included in the specified plural pieces of second sentence data.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-12-01 (17/108364).

Storage control device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing control program
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11449251) developed by Muroyama, Tomohiko, Nishizono, Shinichi, and Oshima, Shoji, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage control device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing control program.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage control device operable to be one of a plurality of storage control devices included in a storage device, the storage control device includes: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to processing, the processing including: executing a determination processing that includes determining whether activation of the storage control device is caused by activation of the entire storage device or activation of the storage control device alone, and executing a region setting processing that includes setting a control information storage region that stores control information used to enable a function of the storage device according to a determination result by the determination processing.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-10-23 (17/078142).

Prioritizing volume accesses in multi-volume storage device based on execution path of service
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11442668) developed by Kuwamura, Shinya, Kawasaki, Japan, for “prioritizing volume accesses in multi-volume storage device based on execution path of a service.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A service management device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire respective execution times of programs that implement a service, identify a first volume having a largest influence on a response time of the service based on the respective execution times of the programs, where the first volume being any one of volumes of a storage device, and at least one of the programs writing and reading data to and from the storage device, and set a priority of writing and reading of data to and from the first volume higher than priorities of writing and reading of data to and from a remaining volume of the volumes.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-06-18 (17/351290).

Storage control device for determining storage device to read collectively blocks of object
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11435917) developed by Yoshida, Taketoshi, Kunitachi, Japan, for “storage control device for determining storage device to read collectively blocks of object, storage system for determining storage device to read collectively blocks of object, and computer-readable recording medium storing program for determining storage device to read collectively blocks of object.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage control device, includes a processor configured to: dispose original blocks to which data on an object basis is divided and assigned and copy blocks which are copies of the original blocks respectively alternately in storage devices of a distributed storage system in a distributed manner, determine, upon reception of a read request for an object, as a first storage control device out of the storage control devices a read task which collectively reads the original blocks and the copy blocks which belong to the object from one of the storage devices, notify the storage control devices of the read task, upon reception of the read request as the first storage control device, collectively read the original blocks and the copy blocks, and transfer the data of the blocks which have been read to a second storage control device which is the read task for the blocks.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-10-29 (17/083354).

Storage medium, model output method, and device
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11410065) developed by Narita, Kenichiroh, and Matsuo, Tatsuru, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage medium, model output method, and model output device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes obtaining a plurality of test data used for analysis of a classifier, obtaining a plurality of approximation models approximated to the classifier, each of separation boundaries of the plurality of approximation models being approximated to a different part of a separation boundary of the classifier, specifying, for each of the approximation models, a test data having a highest similarity from among the test data, specifying, for each specified test data, an approximation model having a second highest similarity with the specified test data from among the approximation models, selecting, from among the approximation models, an exclusion target model whose error with the specified approximation model is the smallest for each specified test data, and outputting the plurality of approximation models from which the exclusion target model is excluded for each specified test data.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-02-05 (16/782193).

Storage control device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing determination program
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11403039) developed by Takakura, Atsushi, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage control device, storage device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing determination program.”

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 program instructions, and processor circuitry configured to execute the program instruction stored in the memory, the program instruction including: executing a drive path information storage processing configured to cause the memory to store, for each virtual drive, priority information indicating priority to be selected as a path to access the respective virtual drive for each storage control device, the each storage control device being configured to control a corresponding storage device, and executing a determination processing configured to determine a responsible storage control device by using information of virtual drives included in the virtual RAID group and priority information stored in the memory, the responsible storage control device being the storage control device to be used to access a virtual redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) group.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-09-09 (17/015127).

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, learning method, and device
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11367003) developed by Katoh, Takashi, Yokohama, Japan, Uemura, Kento, Yasutomi, Suguru, Kawasaki, Japan, Endoh, Toshio, Yokohama, Japan, for “non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, learning method, and learning 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 obtaining a feature quantity of input data by using a feature generator, generating a first output based on the feature quantity by using a supervised learner for labeled data, generating a second output based on the feature quantity by using an unsupervised learning processing for unlabeled data, and changing a contribution ratio between a first error and a second error in a learning by the feature generator, the first error being generated from the labeled data and the first output, the second error being generated from the unlabeled data and the second output.”

The patent application was filed on 2018-04-06 (15/947423).

Storage control device, distributed storage system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing storage control program
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11360710) developed by Nakao, Takanori, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage control device, distributed storage system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing storage control program.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage control device configured to operate as one of a plurality of storage control devices in a distributed storage system configured to distributively arrange divided data in at least a part of the plurality of storage control devices, the divided data being created by dividing original data into a plurality of pieces. The storage control device is configured to: identify a storage position of management information to be used for reproducing of the original data, acquire the management information, store the management information in a first area corresponding to the position of the management information in the original data, store the divided data in a second area corresponding to a relative position of the divided data in the original data, and create reproduction data by using the divided data, the reproduction data including dummy data stored in a third area other than the first and second area.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-08-31 (17/006960).

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, training data generation apparatus, and method
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11354580) developed by Miyagi, Toshihide, Kawasaki, Japan, Yamakoshi, Kota, Ota, Japan, Hirota, Keisuke, Sagamihara, Japan, Kudo, Jumma, Arakawa, Japan, for “non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, training data generation apparatus, and training data generation method.”

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 determining whether first answer information has been cited in a generation process of second answer information for a first inquiry based on history information, stored in a storage device, indicating a citation histories regarding pieces of answer information, and generating training data associating the first inquiry with the first answer information when the first answer information has been cited in a generation process.”

The patent application was filed on 2018-06-22 (16/015749).

Storage control device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing storage control program
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11340974) developed by Abe, Keima, Kawasaki, Japan, Sakai, Motohiro, Nerima, Japan, and Kumabe, Takuro, Kawasaki, Japan, for “storage control device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing storage control program.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage control device includes: an auxiliary cache memory that is a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, and a processor configured to execute a saving control process after a predetermined failure occurs, the saving control process being configured to (a) cause a writing control process to stop writing of data stored in the auxiliary cache memory to the storage medium, (b) secure, in the auxiliary cache memory, a storage region for storing the management information of the volatile memory, (c) generate a copy of management information of the volatile memory in the storage region, and (d) cause the writing control process to execute control to write first data stored in the volatile memory to the auxiliary cache memory or the storage medium based on the management information of the auxiliary cache memory.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-06-03 (16/891137).

Computer-readable recording medium recording specifying program, information processing apparatus, and specifying method
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11328501) developed by Muramoto, Takahide, Zama, Japan, for “computer-readable recording medium recording specifying program, information processing apparatus, and specifying method.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium records a specifying program for causing a computer to execute processing including: receiving a first file, acquiring information indicating a correspondence relationship between an item included in the first file and an item included in a second file, acquiring an item value associated with identification information of the received first file with reference to a storage that stores an item value associated with a specific item included in a file in association with the identification information of the file, comparing the item value associated with the specific item among the items included in the received first file with the acquired item value, and specifying a target item associated with an item value associated with a second item included in the received first file among items included in the second file on the basis of the comparison result and the acquired information.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-07-15 (16/929180).