US Patent Issued to NTT on Dec. 16 for "Data processing device, data processing method, and data processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,998, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Data processing device, data processing method, and data processing program" was invented by Misa Fukai (Tokyo), Masashi Tadokoro (Tokyo) and Haruo Oishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing device (100) creates space information imitating an office environment having a plurality of rooms. The data processing device (100) displays the space information in which a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of users is arranged in a plurality of rooms on the basis of instruction information from each of terminal devices used by the plurality of users. Fo...