ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,066, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Matching device, matching method, and matching program" was invented by Takuya Watanabe (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A matching device includes processing circuitry configured to generate, for each IP address range in a list indicating reference IP address ranges, a record indicating a start IP address and a record indicating an end IP address in the IP address range, combine the record indicating a start IP address and the record indicating an end IP address of each of the reference IP address ranges and a record indicating an IP address to be matched, so...