US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 7 for "Periodic flow detection device, delay estimation device, periodic flow detection method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,818, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Periodic flow detection device, delay estimation device, periodic flow detection method and program" was invented by Keita Nishimoto (Musashino, Japan), Kota Asaka (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroshi O (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A periodic flow detection device include a packet classification unit configured to classify packets into a plurality of flows on the basis of information included in acquired packets; a flow evaluation unit configured to evaluate a possibility that each of the plurality of flows is periodically transmitted on the basis of time at which...