ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,196, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sales management apparatus, sales management method, and sales management system" was invented by Youichi Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sales management apparatus acquires purchase request information. The purchase request information indicates a target network service selected by a target user from among a plurality of network services related to a target event. The sales management apparatus determines a network setting of the target network service, and judges whether the determined network setting can be applied to a target network. In response to the jud...