US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 20 for "Data collection apparatus, data collection method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,768, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Data collection apparatus, data collection method, and program" was invented by Atsushi Otsuka (Tokyo), Narichika Nomoto (Tokyo) and Shiro Ozawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection device according to an embodiment includes: an acquisition unit that acquires data when the data is stored in a shared storage area available to one or more users; a determination unit that determines whether or not a format of the data acquired by the acquisition unit is a format in which text included in the data can be extracted by a predetermined library; an extraction unit ...