ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,448, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Autotuning optimal keepalive intervals for secure sessions" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Oleg Bessonov (Littleton, Mass.) and Andrew Zawadowskiy (Hollis, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for auto tuning keepalive packets intervals to an optimal interval are described. A remote secure session between a client device and a server over a network is established. A determination is made to identify an optimal keepalive interval for sending packets to keep the remote secure session alive over the network, the optimal ...