US Patent Issued to NEC on May 6 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, update method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium in which program is stored" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,491, issued on May 6, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, update method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium in which program is stored" was invented by Atsushi Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an updating method, and a program that can properly update software even when a network function has a redundant configuration are provided. An information processing apparatus (1) includes: an information acquiring unit (2) configured to acquire redundant configuration information contain...