ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,404, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Management apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Ishizuka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Masashi Anzawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Daiki Takeda (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management apparatus includes an obtainer that obtains a start request to request a start of control of quality of a communication service provided to one of a plurality of terminal apparatuses, each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses being connected to one of a plurality of networks managed by a plurality of communication carriers, and terminal information about the terminal...