US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Sept. 15 for "Network node, and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,896, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Network node, and communication method" was invented by Hiroshi Ishikawa (Tokyo), Atsushi Minokuchi (Tokyo) and Yuji Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node that transfers a signal between a service-user-side network node and a service-provider-side network node includes: a reception section that receives a first control signal including information indicating an application of connection requested by the service-user-side network node; a control section that determines whether the connection for the application is permitted; and a transmission se...