ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,753, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and non-transitory recording medium for storing instruction for transmitting requests" was invented by Mitsuo Amasaka (Tokyo), Hideo Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Takayuki Nakamura (Tokyo) and Takuya Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a control unit configured to transmit a request received from an information processing device performing setting on a relay device relaying a packet in software defined networking (SDN) to the relay device. The control unit sequentially transmits each request from...