ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,604, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Registration system, registration method, and registration program" was invented by Yuhei Hayashi (Musashino, Japan), Hiroshi Suzuki (Musashino, Japan), Ichiro Kudo (Musashino, Japan), Hiroshi Osawa (Musashino, Japan), Yuki Miyoshi (Musashino, Japan) and Takeaki Nishioka (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registration device (10) includes an extracting unit (131) that extracts inner header information and outer header information of an encapsulated packet, a filter unit (132) that calculates a hash value of the inner header informati...