ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,492, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Network latency measurement and analysis system" was invented by Ashok Srinivasa Murthy (Fremont, Calif.) and Sunny Rameshkumar Gurnani (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deploying a point of presence (PoP) changes traffic flow to a cloud service provider. To determine if the PoP improves the performance of a cloud service to a client, actual network latencies between the client and the cloud service are measured. In more complex scenarios, multiple PoPs are used. The client sends multiple requests for the same content to the cloud provider. The requ...