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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 01, 2019
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kenta Shinohara, Musashino, JP;

Noritaka Horikome, Musashino, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 101/65 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42297 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2013.01); H04L 2101/65 (2022.05);
Abstract

A number management unit () of a number management system () generates a transaction using number portability information including a telephone number and encrypted connection destination information, newly generates a block using multiple transactions, approves the generated block, and stores the block in a number database () as a blockchain. A number resolution unit () searches transactions in the blockchain using a telephone number that is a query target as a key, extracts and decrypts the encrypted connection destination information corresponding to the query telephone number, and sends the connection destination information corresponding to the query telephone number as a response.


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