ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,359, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods of inserting idles within packets to reduce latency" was invented by Aviran Kadosh (Moreshet, Israel), Mohammad Issa (Los Altos, Calif.) and Matthew Todd Lawson (Grass Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for transmitting and receiving one or more data packets are described herein. A device may face an internal non-deterministic delay in processing causing a gap or an interruption during transmission of the data packet. During the gap, the device can transmit one or more Intra-Packet ...