US Patent Issued to NTT on Nov. 3 for "Packet communication apparatus, packet processing rule setting method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,120, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Packet communication apparatus, packet processing rule setting method and program" was invented by Katsuma Miyamoto (Tokyo), Akihiro Kimura (Tokyo), Shinya Kawano (Tokyo), Koji Sugisono (Tokyo) and Hiroki Kano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet communication device connected to one or more paths includes a routing unit that distributes packets received from a terminal to any one of the one or more paths, and a control unit that acquires an IP address of the terminal and sets an application rule for packet processing in the routing unit on the basis of the IP address...