US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Coordinated edge-assisted reliability mechanism for real-time media services" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,690, issued on March 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Coordinated edge-assisted reliability mechanism for real-time media services" was invented by Giovanna Carofiglio (Paris), Michele Papalini (Issy les Moulineaux, France) and Giulio Grassi (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a coordinated edge-assisted reliability mechanism for real-time media services. In one embodiment, a method includes forwarding, by an edge relay device, data packets between a media server and a client device; measuring packet loss and latency associated with communications between the edge relay device,...