ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,775, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc..

"Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and data processing program" was invented by Ushio Shibusawa (Musashino, Japan), Teruhisa Inoue (Musashino, Japan), Shunsuke Takamiya (Musashino, Japan), Maiko Imoto (Musashino, Japan), Fanglu Xie (Musashino, Japan) and Soichiro Uchida (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method of an embodiment is used in an online communication system. The data processing method includes registering a registration name and a pseudonym in a user database of the online communication system for each user, displaying the r...