US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Packet level redundancy in distributed computing systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,578, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Packet level redundancy in distributed computing systems" was invented by Daehyeok Kim (Redmond, Wash.), Jitendra Padhye (Redmond, Wash.), Shachar Raindel (Redmond, Wash.) and Wei Bai (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of packet level redundancy in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. In one example, upon receiving an original packet to be transmitted from a source host to an application executing at a destination host, the source host generates a duplicated packet based on the received original packet. Th...