MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617094876 A) filed by Hitachi, Ltd. on August 05, 2026, for Protocol Analysis Device And Protocol Analysis Method.

Inventors include Chettymani, Ashokkumar; Hashimoto, Yoko; and Fujii, Shota.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: The present invention comprises: an identification unit that receives input of protocol specification data pertaining to a protocol which includes at least one item and that identifies items included in the protocol specification data; a hazard index allocation unit that allocates, to each item, a hazard index indicating an index of vulnerability; a severity level calculation unit that imparts, to each item, an individual severity level, which is set according to the severity of the allocated hazard index, that performs ranking, and that identifies a prescribed item having vulnerability from among the items and calculates a total severity level of each prescribed item for the protocol; and a report presentation unit that externally presents, for the protocol, a prescribed description item for which the total severity level is higher than a prescribed threshold value.

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