ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,436, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Management apparatus and network system" was invented by Daiki Takeda (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Hiroki Ishizuka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Masashi Anzawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management apparatus, which communicates with a terminal apparatus that is connectable to a network controlled by QoS control, includes: an acquirer configured to acquire protocol information indicative of processing content of a connection protocol to be performed between the terminal apparatus and the network when the terminal apparatus is connected to the netw...