ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,236, issued on June 10, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).
"Credential information management in network" was invented by Jayoung Oh (Tokyo), Tomomi Kanai (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Jo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A credential management apparatus performs a change process, an acquisition process, and a locking process. The change process is processing that periodically changes credential information of components that constitute a network. The acquisition process is processing that acquires maintenance operation information related to a maintenance operation of the network. The locking process is processing that locks t...