ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,692, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, data providing apparatus, data processing apparatus, data receiving apparatus, method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Hikaru Tsuchida (Tokyo), Haruna Fukuda (Tokyo), Kengo Mori (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Isshiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data providing apparatus sets a processing rule, sets predetermined random numbers, calculates a signature hash value corresponding to each of a plurality of data, generates a digital signature using the signature hash value, and transmits a data set, the digital signature, and the rando...