US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 22 for "Making transmission control protocol (TCP) sessions robust in a socket replication environment" (Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,109, issued on July 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Making transmission control protocol (TCP) sessions robust in a socket replication environment" was invented by Amit Arora (Bangalore, India), Erin C. MacNeil (Carp, Canada), Harmeet Singh (Bangalore, India) and Sairam Neelam (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may execute a master application shared with another network device via a session, and may receive, by a backup application replication kernel, a replicated data object. The backup application replication kernel may provide the replicated data object to a backup ap...