ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,992, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Management apparatus" was invented by Masashi Anzawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Hiroki Ishizuka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management apparatus includes: a provider configured to, in response to receiving a first request from a first node, provide the first node with first information corresponding to the first request, the first request being a request to control quality of communication within a group constituted by the first node and a plurality of second nodes, the first node and each of the plurality of second nodes each having a bl...