ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,979, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NTT INC. (Tokyo).

"Data processing system and data processing method" was invented by Naoki Miura (Tokyo), Takeshi Sakamoto (Tokyo), Yuki Arikawa (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Ito (Tokyo), Kenji Tanaka (Tokyo), Masaru Katayama (Tokyo) and Yuta Ukon (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user management apparatus adds a tag in which route information is described to a packet received from a user and transmits the packet to a data transfer device. The data transfer device transfers the packet to one of data processing devices under control and other data transfer devices based on the route information inclu...