ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,386, issued on May 5, was assigned to NTT TECHNOCROSS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Kenichi Machida (Tokyo), Kazuhira Matsui (Tokyo) and Takaaki Fukutomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing device according to one embodiment includes: a setting part configured to pair and set, based on first information sent from a terminal that is connected via a communication network, user identification information with second information, the user identification information identifying a user using a given telephone machine, the second informat...