US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 14 for "Communication system, distribution device, data distribution method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,372, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, distribution device, data distribution method and program" was invented by Takuya Oda (Musashino, Japan), Takuya Ohara (Musashino, Japan), Fumikazu Inuzuka (Musashino, Japan), Takafumi Tanaka (Musashino, Japan) and Masayuki Shimoda (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distribution devices are each connected to a single or a plurality of line switching networks and a single or a plurality of packet switching networks, selects either the line switching network or the packet switching network as the distribution destination on the basis of distr...