ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,827, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Program execution system, data processing apparatus, program execution method, and program" was invented by Tetsuya Okuda (Tokyo) and Misato Nakabayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program execution system including a data holding apparatus; a program providing apparatus; and a data processing apparatus that includes a mechanism for performing secret computing in a secure area is provided. The data holding apparatus transmits encrypted data of data D to the data processing apparatus, the program providing apparatus transmits an encrypted program of a program P to th...