ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,180, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"System, method and program for collecting data" was invented by Ryohei Tsugami (Musashino, Japan) and Tatsuya Fukui (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a system that does not require a large amount of network resources even in a case where data is collected from a large number of data sources. The present disclosure provides a system that collects data from a plurality of data sources to a server, wherein each of the data sources sends data transfer requirements to a controller, the controller determines a transmi...