US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on March 18 for "Data access method, data storage system, server apparatus, client apparatus, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,993, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data access method, data storage system, server apparatus, client apparatus, and program" was invented by Atsunori Ichikawa (Musashino, Japan) and Koki Hamada (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search key is generated (S20). A key relationship array is transmitted (S11). If an element matching the key relationship array is present, the found search key is held (S21). A key relationship index is transmitted (S22). A record read out using the key relationship index is transmitted (S12). If the record matches the search key, the foun...