US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Aug. 5 for "Traffic monitoring device and traffic monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,801, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traffic monitoring device and traffic monitoring method" was invented by Hiroyuki Uzawa (Tokyo), Yusuke Sekihara (Tokyo), Saki Hatta (Tokyo), Shuhei Yoshida (Tokyo) and Namiko Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic monitoring device includes an identification unit that identifies a flow of a packet received from a monitoring target network into a flow of a first flow group and a second flow group other than the first flow group on the basis of a rule table in which a predetermined rule is registered, a traffic aggregation unit that agg...