US Patent Issued to GRAPHCORE on June 17 for "Network path testing via independent test traffic" (British, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,130, issued on June 17, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Network path testing via independent test traffic" was invented by Martin Vickers (Bristol, Great Britain), Bjorn Dag Johnsen (Oslo, Norway), Brian Edward Manula (Bekkestua, Norway) and Daniel John Pelham Wilkinson (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The same test data frame is dispatched from a network interface device a plurality of times so as to test a network. Since the same test data frame is used, it may be unnecessary for a new test data frame to be provided and protocol processed each time one is required to be sent. The prot...