NEC Assigned Two Patents

Device, preventing information leakage
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,251,367) developed by Aoki, Satoshi, Tokyo, Japan, and Kameda, Manabu, Ishikawa, Japan, for a “device, method and program for preventing information leakage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided is a device for preventing information leakage including: a storage unit that stores message time, request source information, and request destination information in relation to each information requesting message, a unit that suspends a response message containing personal information in response messages in response to the information requesting messages, for a predetermined suspended time from a message time of the corresponding information requesting message, a unit that counts the number of information requesting messages transmitted from the same request source to the same destination and corresponding to the suspended response message on the basis of information stored in the storage unit, and a unit that, in the case where the counted number of the information requesting messages exceeds a predetermined threshold value, applies a protection process to the suspended response message so that the personal information contained in the suspended response message is not received by the request source.“

The patent application was filed on March 16, 2012 (14/007,175).

Information processing devices, and recording medium
with regard to distributed file system
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,251,156) developed by Tamano, Hiroshi, Tokyo, Japan, for a “information processing devices, method, and recording medium with regard to a distributed file system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An information processing device can determine, as a placement destination of object data, a storage location which is the most suitable for speeding up future processing which uses a plurality of pieces of data including the object data simultaneously, even when the object data is stored newly before use of it.“

The patent application was filed on February 20, 2012 (14/005,758).