US Patent Issued to NEC on June 23 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and optical communication system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,672, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and optical communication system" was invented by Shigeyuki Yanagimachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a specification unit that specifies a route for converting a wavelength of an optical signal from a first wavelength to a second wavelength and transferring the converted optical signal at a relay node, based on a usage state of a wavelength at nodes that perform communication using an optical signal; and a control unit that contr...