US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 12 for "Bandwidth utilization techniques for in-band redundant data" (Swedish, British, American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,564, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bandwidth utilization techniques for in-band redundant data" was invented by Amir Salah Abdelsamie Abdelwahed (Cracow, Poland), Ivana Balic (Studen, Sweden), Yusuf Ziya Isik (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Xuehong Mao (San Jose, Calif.) and Samer Lutfi Hijazi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: encoding a current data portion to generate an encoded current data portion for inclusion in a data packet; encoding, based upon content of the current data portion, a forwar...