ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,959, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Adapting to differences in device state reporting of third party servers" was invented by Yuzhao Ni (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations herein relate to information describing one or more internal states of a technical system. Implementations herein are provided for characterizing reliability of various different third party servers, at least when reporting third party device statuses, as well as adapting protocols for device ecosystems affected by such reliability. Latency can affect accuracy of device states represented by ass...