US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Dec. 16 for "Stateless transmission control protocol connections" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,930, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Stateless transmission control protocol connections" was invented by Ronald Alan Dilley (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Thomas Liston (McHenry, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a first message from a client device requesting an establishment of a transmission control protocol connection, wherein the first message contains a first sequence number for the transmission control protocol connection, calculating, based on the first sequence number and a first integer from a list of a plurality of randomly generated integers, a secon...