ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,184, issued on Oct. 21, 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, upon receiving a first request to control quality of communication within a group constituted by a first node and second nodes, which have a blockchain and which are configured to execute the communication for appending additional data to the blockchain, from the first node, provide the first node with first information corresponding to the first request; and...