Japanese Inventors Develop Transmitted Information Processing Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Haruyo Endo, Yukihiro Fukuta, Masami Kinugasa and Zenta Watanabe, all from Tokyo, Yasumasa Mizushima, Koji Hagioda and Masakatsu Mori, all from Kanagawa, Japan, Fumio Koyama of Chiba, Japan, and Nobuaki Katsuya of Saitama, Japan, have developed a method of processing transmitted information.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus that executes processing of a message transmitted among a plurality of sites connected via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a message reception part that receives a message to execute a prescribed piece of reception processing, a rule accumulation part for accumulating rules to execute message processing, a message conversion part for executing conversion processing of a message according to the rules accumulated in the rule accumulation part, and a message transmission part for executing a prescribed piece of transmission processing of the post-conversion message."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,359,942 on April 15.

The patent has been assigned to Sony Corp., Japan, and Accenture Corp., Japan.

The original application was filed on Dec. 3, 2001, and is available at: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,359,942.PN.&OS=PN/7,359,942&RS=PN/7,359,942.

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