US Patent Issued to NTT on Dec. 2 for "Communication system, communication apparatus, method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,737, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, communication apparatus, method, and program" was invented by Sakae Chikara (Tokyo) and Tsunekazu Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system according to one embodiment is a communication system including a plurality of communication apparatuses, in which each communication apparatus includes: an application program configured to perform encrypted communication with another communication apparatus; a protocol conversion unit configured to transmit a message representing a predetermined procedure when a key request for a shared key t...