ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,521, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Jenam Tech LLC (Longview, Texas).

"Methods, systems, and computer program products for sharing information for detecting a time period" was invented by Robert Paul Morris (Madison, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus and method are provided to: receive, by the apparatus from a node, a set up packet during a setup of a connection, the set up packet for use in a protocol that is not transmission control protocol (TCP); identify first metadata in a time period parameter field in the set up packet, for a time period, where, as a result of a detection of the time perio...