ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,818, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Collecting device, collecting method, and collecting program" was invented by Akinori Furuta (Tokyo), Yuhei Hayashi (Tokyo), Atsushi Suto (Tokyo), Chiharu Morioka (Tokyo), Yuki Miyoshi (Tokyo), Satomi Inoue (Tokyo) and Masato Yamada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specification unit (15b) specifies a path of traffic on the basis of past flow information. A determination unit (15c) determines a network device on the specified path for traffic related to a designated event."
The patent was filed on Feb. 15, 2022, under Application No. 18/837,973.
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